Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1464
INDIA: Indigenous Rights Versus Wildlife Rights? — Part 1
- Inter Press Service
Tucked away in a dense and ecologically diverse tiger reserve in Southern India, tribes-people and wildlife defenders are locked in a battle of indigenous peoples’ rights versus wildlife rights.
Price Hikes, Sliding Currency Rattle Iranian Consumers
- Inter Press Service
Massive uncertainty, severe sanctions on its economy and a diminishing supply of hard currency have sent the Iranian currency, the rial, into a tailspin that appears unlikely to stabilise anytime soon.
LATIN AMERICA: Iran Flaunts Its Allies
- Inter Press Service
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sought to freshen up his international image on a tour of Latin America and demonstrate that his country does have friends in the world, while almost every day events place him at the epicentre of fraught geopolitical tensions.
SRI LANKA: Peacetime Can Mean Hard Times
- Inter Press Service
It’s a new year, a new beginning but probably a harsher reality in Sri Lanka's former war zone. As the country enters its third year since the end of a bloody sectarian war that tore the nation's fabric apart, for many of the survivors of the worst fighting, a tough but true reality is dawning. Life in peacetime may yet be a hard struggle.
MIDEAST: Flowers Fight Their Way Out
- Inter Press Service
Ayman Siam, 41, is not growing carnations as usual this year. It’s limonium and statice flowers instead because they are hardier. Given the risks of an Israeli blockade, it’s a political decision.
Report Exposes 'Survival Sex Trade' in Post-Earthquake Haiti
- Inter Press Service
Eighteen-year-old 'Kettlyne', a Haitian orphan living in the rubble-strewn Croix Deprez camp — one of the many remaining tent-cities that houses refugees from the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake — is unable to feed her three-year-old daughter.
HAITI: Displaced Mark a Tragedy That Could Have Been Yesterday
- Inter Press Service
For two years now, since her husband was one of the estimated 230,000 Haitians killed in the massive earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010 and she and her three children became homeless, little has changed for Dieulia St. Juste.
EL SALVADOR: Pesticides Fill Graveyards in Rural Villages
- Inter Press Service
Sitting in the shade under a tree at a careful distance, Francisco Sosa watches his son prepare the land for planting by spraying the weeds with an herbicide from a tank carried on his back.
PAKISTAN: New Price Tags on Stranded NATO Supplies
- Inter Press Service
From a distance, the neatly stacked red, blue and orange containers suggest that business is good at Karachi’s Kemari port.
Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks
- Inter Press Service
The world's farmers produced more grain in 2011 than ever before. Estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the global grain harvest coming in at 2,295 million tonnes, up 53 million tonnes from the previous record in 2009.
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