Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1434
Brazilian Women Are the World’s Happiest
- Inter Press Service
Money may not buy happiness — but it has helped make women in Brazil become the happiest, most optimistic women in the world, according to a study.
Q&A: How to Analyse a Budget's Impact on Female Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
Tools such as 'gender markers', which screen budgets and resources dedicated to promoting gender equality, are proving critical to improving the effectiveness of monetary support that seeks to empower women and girls.
PHILIPPINES: Women Weather Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
As the world commemorates International Women’s Day today, women around the globe are speaking out on various issues that affect them. In light of recent natural disasters and calamities in the Philippines, women are increasingly citing climate change as one of their most pressing concerns.
CHILE: Promoting Women’s Empowerment on Two Wheels
- Inter Press Service
What does riding a bike have to do with women’s rights? According to the Chilean feminist group Macleta, which promotes cycling and a gender perspective on public transport, a bicycle is a powerful tool for social change.
Thai Province Shows the Green Way
- Inter Press Service
As fingers of morning light slip through the mango and banana orchards of his village, Suchin Utanarat heads out in a boat to net a fresh catch from the nearby canals teeming with shrimp.
Arab Women Bring Spring to the Screen
- Inter Press Service
Women have been at the forefront of each uprising in the Arab world. Last week, the ‘8 Arab Women Filmmakers’ festival offered a platform to Arab women directors to give their perspectives on the future of the region.
Following the Money Trail in Gender Financing
- Inter Press Service
Promising methods of tracking aid funding intended to improve women's and girls' livelihoods also offer the possibility of revealing whether donors and policymakers are walking the walk when it comes to gender financing.
French Alternative Water Forum Says ‘No’ to Privatisation
- Inter Press Service
Back in 2001, Gérard Mestrallet, CEO of the transnational water giant GDF- Suez, highlighted his company’s 'commitment to fight for better access' to safe water and sanitation throughout the world, in order to put an end to all deadly water-borne diseases, from children’s diarrhoea to parasitic diseases to dysentery.
Protesters Lift Roadblocks in Southern Chile
- Inter Press Service
Leaders of the protests in Aysén decided to end the roadblocks that had paralysed this southern region of Chile for more than three weeks, and the government promised to 'immediately' resume talks to defuse the conflict.
Temporary Toilets Threaten Permanent Damage in Haiti — Part 2
- Inter Press Service
Complete with gallery and garden, the 534 wood and plasterboard houses are arranged in neat rows on a gravel plot of former sugarcane land northwest of the capital.
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