Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1471
SRI LANKA: Tsunami Demons Haunt the Coast
- Inter Press Service
Seven years after monster waves crashed into homes, hotels and vehicles on Sri Lanka’s coast, people in this island nation continue to be haunted by demons from the sea.
BRAZIL: Providing Alternatives for Small-Scale Tobacco Farmers
- Inter Press Service
The fall in world tobacco consumption, especially in industrialised nations, is a sign of the urgent need for producer countries like Brazil, China, India and the United States to offer their farmers alternatives to growing tobacco.
U.S. Limits Mercury Pollution as Big Coal Retreats
- Inter Press Service
Environmental advocates praised a recent new rule limiting pollution of mercury and other air toxins announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, one of several new air pollution standards set under the Barack Obama administration.
U.S.: Despite Obesity Crisis, Govt Slow to Rein in Fast Food Industry
- Inter Press Service
When the fast food chain McDonald's decided to add oatmeal to its menu in January 2011, it literally sugar-coated the offering as a 'portable, affordable and balanced breakfast solution... to help make it easier and more inviting for our guests to eat more whole grains and fruits'.
VENEZUELA: Putting (Mothers') Faces to the Violence
- Inter Press Service
These women are not fashion models, nor are they advertising any product, yet their images look down on passersby from giant black-and-white posters in the Venezuelan capital. There are 52 of them, and they are all mothers who have lost one or more children to the criminal violence that is plaguing the country.
SIERRA LEONE: The Isolation of Epilepsy Sufferers
- Inter Press Service
Elizabeth Zainab Kargbo was a successful young woman, eight months pregnant and working in Sierra Leone’s civil service, when she had her first seizure.
ARGENTINA: Anti-Terrorism Law Upsets Harmony Between Government and Activists
- Inter Press Service
Human rights groups and legal experts are concerned that a law passed by the Argentine Congress in the early hours of Thursday morning to crack down on terrorism could be used to criminalise social protest.
PORTUGAL: All-Out Privatisation Gets Underway
- Inter Press Service
The most far-reaching programme of privatisation of state enterprises in the history of Portugal kicked off Thursday with the sale of almost all of the state's shares in the Energias de Portugal (EDP) utility to China's Three Gorges Corp.
EL SALVADOR: Women Demand to Be Included in Climate Solutions
- Inter Press Service
Some 100 rural women in El Salvador demanded that the government halt mining and hydroelectric projects that are harming their communities and establish specific programmes with a gender perspective for combating climate change.
New Rules Leave Canadian Aid Groups in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
Many Canadian civil society organisations working in international development are still awaiting a definitive answer about future government funding, a months-long lag critics argue has hampered overseas operations and only worsens Canada's global reputation when viewed in light of other issues in recent years.
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