Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1441
Wanted: Climate-Smart Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
As the links between food security and climate change become increasingly inextricable, the necessity for sustainable agriculture is now a universal concern.
BRAZIL: A Curse on Hydropower Projects in the Amazon?
- Inter Press Service
'Perhaps it's the curse of Rondônia,' joked Ari Ott, referring to teething troubles with the first turbine of the Santo Antônio hydroelectric plant which was intended to kick off a new cycle of huge power projects in Brazil's Amazon jungle region.
COTE D’IVOIRE: Illicit Timber Trade Exposes the North to Drought
- Inter Press Service
Environmental groups in Côte d'Ivoire say the illegal logging and sale of wood from the African gum tree is exposing the north of the country to the encroaching desert. The NGOs are calling on the authorities to take firmer action against the illicit timber traders — who allegedly include government officials.
Q&A: 'Malaysians Must Vote Out Corruption, Racism'
- Inter Press Service
Malaysia’s charismatic opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is tapping the spirit of the Arab Spring to end the 55-year unbroken rule of the United Malay National Organsiation (UMNO) and its allies in the Southeast Asian nation.
Haiti's University Languishes in Ruins - Part 2
- Inter Press Service
When the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission failed to approve, or even respond to, a proposal by the University of the State of Haiti (UEH) for a unified campus to replace the nine destroyed or badly damaged faculties in the capital, Vice Rector Fritz Deshommes was not surprised at the silence.
Haiti's University Languishes in Ruins - Part 1
- Inter Press Service
Two years after the earthquake, and despite the proposals written, the consortiums organised and the foreign delegations entertained, the University of the State of Haiti (Université d'Etat d'Haïti or UEH) still has not seen any 'reconstruction', and the proposal for a university campus that would unite all 11 faculties remains a 25-year-old dream.
Women, Victims of War, Have No Seat at Negotiating Table
- Inter Press Service
When the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held its inaugural meeting in London back in 1946, the U.S. delegate, Eleanor Roosevelt, read an open letter to 'the women of the world' calling on governments to encourage women everywhere to participate in national and international affairs.
Community Radios in Colombia Tune In for Peace
- Inter Press Service
Cleaning up a stream that used to be a garbage dump and restocking it with fish, or helping demobilised far-right paramilitaries reintegrate into society by returning to school, are some of the early outcomes of a project involving community radio stations in a remote area of northwest Colombia.
SENEGAL: Two Women Among 14 Candidates for President
- Inter Press Service
There are two women among the 14 candidates contesting the first round of Senegalese presidential elections that will be held on Feb. 26. But according to several analysts, this overwhelmingly Muslim West African country is not ready to be governed by a woman.
ECONOMY: Sri Lankan Poor Hit by Triple Whammy
- Inter Press Service
First the government devalued the Sri Lankan rupee by three percent in November. Then interest rates were hiked. And to cap that U.S. sanctions hit Iran, which meets 90 percent of this country’s oil needs.
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