Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1429
Saving Face for Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
By winning an Oscar at this year’s Academy awards, filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has brought home the genius of Pakistan’s women as well as the extreme violence they often suffer in a male-dominated society.
Myanmar Ethnic Groups Resist Forced Labour
- Inter Press Service
In a move expected to deepen political reform, the quasi-civilian government in Myanmar (also known as Burma) is permitting the distribution of leaflets that will help thousands of people in the country’s ethnic enclaves learn to resist forced labour.
‘Green Morocco Plan’ Fails to Confront Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
An unprecedented cold spell that struck Morocco in February and continues to linger well into March has raised serious questions about the country's national agricultural development programme, which will fail to achieve its desired results if climate change continues to be mismanaged.
The Dusty Limpopo River
- Inter Press Service
Chapita Ramovha remembers the days when the Limpopo River lapped at the foot of his village in south Zimbabwe. He says that back then residents of Makakavhule village had to build high walls to protect their homes from flooding. 'The Limpopo River was a marvel to watch, a beauty of nature, a source of food and income for us who lived along it,' the subsistence farmer recalls.
Shelters Don't Shelter Haiti's Needy
- Inter Press Service
Almost half of the emergency shelters distributed by the British organisation Tearfund in the mountains above Léogâne remain uninhabited six months after they were built.
Mining Industry Puts a Freeze on Mapping of Argentina’s Glaciers
- Inter Press Service
Since late 2011, scientists in Argentina have been carrying out an inventory of the country’s glaciers, with the aim of monitoring and preserving them. But they have failed to reach the most critical areas, where large-scale mining projects are encroaching on the ice fields.
‘Shopping Tourism’ Promotes Regional Unity in the Balkans
- Inter Press Service
The region of former Yugoslavia has developed a new phenomenon in response to economic hardships that continue to linger in Europe years after the climax of the global financial crash in 2008.
Malaysians Miss Indonesian Hired Help
- Inter Press Service
Ideally, Malaysia’s affluent households could meet their need for domestic help by tapping on Indonesia, a large country with linguistic and cultural similarities - but Jakarta has placed a ban on its nationals working as domestics in the neighbouring country.
Men Still Make the Decisions on Reproductive Rights in Cote d’Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
'I would like to use contraception, but my husband is against it,' says Bintou Moussa*. The 32-year-old mother has just given birth to her sixth child at the Abobo General Hospital in Cote d’Ivoire’s commercial capital Abidjan.
Public Water Management Services Need 'Committed Citizens' to Overcome Challenges
- Inter Press Service
The trend of privatisation and commercialisation of water services, which set in in the 1980s and continued throughout the 1990s, has come to a halt due to the process’ own failures, and has given rise to a return of those services into efficient public management, according to a new book.
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