Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1443
Somalia's Rich Maritime Resources Being Plundered, Report Says
- Inter Press Service
The international community has failed to grapple with the real underlying political and economic issues facing the troubled East African nation of Somalia, which has been surviving without an effective government for over two decades, according to a new study released here.
Global Gender Imbalance Poses Critical Problems for Women
- Inter Press Service
In 2005, there were 163 million more men in Asia, more than the entire female population of the United States. Asia is now facing serious consequences from sex selection, a situation the West might have inadvertently helped create.
GUATEMALA: Zero Hunger Plan Must Focus on Production, Experts Say
- Inter Press Service
'We don’t want a repeat of welfare-oriented programmes, because they are unsustainable,' said Rony Palacios of the National Network for the Defence of Food Sovereignty in Guatemala, criticising President Otto Pérez Molina’s Zero Hunger plan.
Brazil’s Construction Boom Eases Integration of Haitians
- Inter Press Service
Pierre was in the next-door country of Dominican Republic when the January 2010 earthquake destroyed half of Port-au-Prince and killed at least 200,000 of his fellow Haitians, including his wife and his mother.
Scientists Urge Reform for a Broken Global System
- Inter Press Service
Unless governments work actively to build a brighter future for humanity, climate change, poverty and loss of biodiversity will worsen and continue to exacerbate existing global problems, top scientists warned ministers at the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) governing council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.
Scientists Denounce Climate Change Denial, Censorship
- Inter Press Service
Amid revelations of a well-funded U.S. organisation's plans to deliberately distort climate science, scientists and journalists at a major scientific conference called on the Canadian government to stop its muzzling of scientists.
NIGER: Strained Welcome for 15,000 Malian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
The little village of Chinagoder, on the Niger-Mali border, has become a refugee camp, flooded with Malian families fleeing fighting between their regular army and Tuareg rebels known as the MNLA - the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad.
ETHIOPIA: 'Significant Progress Towards Improving Livelihoods'
- Inter Press Service
Ethiopia says that the double-digit economic growth the country has experienced over the last seven years has started benefitting the country’s majority by boosting their income and productivity in agriculture and small-scale businesses.
Palestinians Hear the Water
- Inter Press Service
After a recent Israeli Supreme Court decision allowed Israeli companies to maintain quarrying and mining activities in the occupied West Bank, local human rights groups and activists say the decision has opened the door dangerously to Israel’s pillaging of other Palestinian resources.
INDONESIA: Community Radio Helps Revive Forests
- Inter Press Service
Irman Meilandi unhesitatingly attributes the return of birds, wildlife and the forests around his hilly village of Mandalamekar in West Java province to conservation advice streaming in over community radio.
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