Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1436
World Has Met Development Target on Water, U.N. Claims
- Inter Press Service
When the U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution back in September 2000 laying out eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it specified 2015 as the target date to achieve them.
Pakistan's Hospitals That Come Home
- Inter Press Service
With no money to see a doctor, Gul Lakhta,50, had resigned himself to blindness when a ‘mobile hospital’ drove into his village in the Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), on Pakistan’s rugged border with Afghanistan.
Little Money to Promote Gender Equality in Eastern Europe
- Inter Press Service
Despite pushes from international bodies such as the United Nations (UN) or the European Union (EU) to promote gender equality in Central and Eastern Europe, access to funding for such initiatives remains largely conditional upon national governments’ willingness to embrace this agenda.
JAMAICA: New Technologies Extend Life and 'Mobility' of Radio
- Inter Press Service
In the last 25 years, there has been an explosion of commercial radio stations in what Jamaican broadcast professionals describe as 'a revolution' that has extended the 'mobility of radio'.
U.N. Chief Exercises Selective Transparency in Key Posts
- Inter Press Service
As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Friday the appointments of two of his most senior officials, he has also broken new ground in his global search for a new team: an advertisement in a British weekly calling for applicants for vacant high-ranking jobs in the Secretariat.
Suicides Surge in Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
On Feb. 6, a young girl committed suicide by swallowing poison at her home in Kashmir. A few weeks later a teenaged girl from Srinagar hung herself at her residence.
ZIMBABWE: Farmers Tackle Water Problems Fuelled by Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Beauty Moyo’s desire for access to water has finally been met. The rains that fell in the past week after a long dry patch have awakened this small-holder farmer deep in rural Plumtree, Zimbabwe on the border with Botswana to the reality of sparse rainfall, climate change and how she and her fellow villagers can respond.
Facing Painful Cuts and Tuition Hikes, U.S. Students 'Occupy Education'
- Inter Press Service
Shawn Deez, a freshman in peace and conflict studies, says she thinks she knows why some classes are scheduled at the University of California, Berkeley, and some are not. It's corporate influence that makes the difference, she said.
U.N. Meet Holds Governments to Account on Women's Equality
- Inter Press Service
In 2008, delegates meeting for the annual U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) agreed that much greater investments in women and gender equality were a critical — and overlooked — aspect of sustainable development.
Argentine Women Refused Legal Abortions in Cases of Rape
- Inter Press Service
For over 90 years, a law in Argentina has allowed women who become pregnant as a result of rape to have an abortion. However, hospitals often refuse to carry out the procedure, instead referring the women to the justice system.
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