Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1474
ECONOMY: Argentina Shows World How to Beat the Crisis
- Inter Press Service
What is happening in the European Union and the United States today happened a decade ago in Argentina, when it was a hotbed of protest and the streets of major cities were seething with people telling their leaders they had had enough. And then a new story began to be written.
KENYA: A Shelter for Safe Delivery
- Inter Press Service
The Garissa Maternal Shelter in North Eastern Province, Kenya is the only such facility in an area with the country’s highest maternal mortality rate. At 1,000 deaths per 100,000 live births, it is almost double the country’s average.
SRI LANKA: Peace Brings Little for the War-Disabled
- Inter Press Service
There are times when Thiyagarajah Santhirakumaran, 35, wishes that he had died in Sri Lanka’s civil war. There is peace now, but with both his legs blown off by a shell he has little to look forward to except a life of dependency.
Deadly Gas Enters the Arab Spring
- Inter Press Service
Activists across the Middle East are reporting a mysterious toxin, possibly a banned nerve agent, in the thick clouds of tear gas used by security forces to suppress anti-government protests in recent months.
U.S.: Foreign Aid Spared Drastic Cuts for 2012
- Inter Press Service
Despite the budget cutting and anti-U.N. frenzy that seized Republican lawmakers over the past year, U.S. foreign aid and support for multilateral institutions emerged in somewhat better shape than many observers had expected.
MALAWI: Women’s Education The Path to The Presidency
- Inter Press Service
On an elegant veranda adorned with a red carpet, Malawi’s Vice President Joyce Banda recalls how her childhood friend Chrissie Mtokoma was always top of their class and how she struggled to beat her. But now decades later Banda is a likely contender for the country’s presidency in 2014, while Mtokoma lives in poverty.
EU-India Deal Could Spell Disaster
- Inter Press Service
As the Eighth Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) kicked off in Geneva this week, a group of NGOs exposed the devastating potential of a free trade agreement currently being negotiated between the European Union and India. If passed, they say the deal would make a mockery of all WTO rules and regulations.
U.S.: Protestors Condemn Mining Corporation Suing El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
Protestors rallied in front of World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. today hoping to persuade a tribunal housed there to dismiss a case brought by Pacific Rim Mining Corporation against the government of El Salvador.
Chinese Village Besieged After Protests
- Inter Press Service
A standoff between villagers and police is continuing in southern China, where police have sealed off the village of Wukan in an attempt to quell an uprising, witnesses say.
SOUTH SUDAN: Women Aim to Protect Their Rights in a Young State
- Inter Press Service
As South Sudan maps out its economic future at the South Sudan International Engagement Conference (IEC) this week in Washington, women from the new country called on donors to invest in projects that ensure women benefit equally from development plans.
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