Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1485
Busan Skirts Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
Gender champions have lauded the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness for providing gender equality and the empowerment of women a special session, but there is dissatisfaction with Thursday’s Busan outcome document.
Inclusiveness Wins at Busan Aid Forum
- Inter Press Service
Inclusiveness was the winner as donors, recipient governments, emerging economies, multilateral lenders and civil society representatives hammered out a consensual document at the close of a major meeting in this South Korean city to boost development aid effectiveness.
EUROPE: Co-ops Off to a Promising Start
- Inter Press Service
A small wave of consumer co-operatives is rising in Central and Eastern Europe, attempting to provide food that is locally produced and healthy, and to build conviviality.
AFRICA: Watermelon Farming in a Drought
- Inter Press Service
On a Sunday evening, a track loaded with 10 tonnes of watermelons leaves Geoffrey Ndung’u’s homestead in Kanyonga village in semi-arid Eastern Kenya. It travels past a village shopping centre were people have formed a queue to receive food aid because of a prolonged drought in the area.
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Male Circumcision a Route to Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
Although at first glance male circumcision may not be the most obvious entrée to get people talking about gender equality, activists in the Western Cape in South Africa are attempting to do just that.
For Big Financial Institutions, Profit Trumps Women's Rights
- Inter Press Service
This year, for the first time, the World Bank dedicated its 2012 annual flagship World Development Report to women as indispensable players in the global economy and launched a media campaign to 'think equal'.
To Women's Rights, Financial Institutions Pay Lip Service Only
- Inter Press Service
On day seven of 'the 16 days of activism to end violence against women' campaign, women's rights organisations around the world are asking what the biggest international financial institutions (IFIs) are really doing to protect women's rights, which are under daily assault.
LATIN AMERICA: Female Condoms in Short Supply
- Inter Press Service
In spite of the growing spread of HIV/AIDS among women in Latin America and the Caribbean, the female condom, which could put them in charge of their health, is not readily available.
Not Everyone on Board with Mesoamerica Development Plan
- Inter Press Service
Ten years after its launch under a different name, the Mesoamerica Project, which involves major investments in energy, telecommunications, housing, health and other areas, is moving ahead slowly and continues to face scepticism that it will have a real impact against poverty.
Water: A Victim of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
The Southern Africa Development Community wants water to be tabled as a standalone item on climate change negotiations — describing it as too important to leave on the periphery.
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