Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1492
Argentina Inundated with E-Waste
- Inter Press Service
The shop is filled to bursting with buyers. One by one, customers follow a salesperson to one of a row of booths where they are provided with a wealth of information on the mobile phones for sale. But nobody tells them what to do with the old phones they are replacing.
Bangladesh Demands Climate Justice
- Inter Press Service
Mosammet Monwara walks more than three km every alternate day to fetch water for her family of five in a heavy earthen pitcher.
SOUTH AFRICA: Acid Mine Drainage Water Can Be Put to Use
- Inter Press Service
Toxic water from derelict gold and uranium mines has reportedly destroyed Elize Strydom's dream to be a farmer in her retirement.
U.S. Ratchets Up Economic Pressure on Iran
- Inter Press Service
Under intense pressure from the U.S. Congress and U.S. presidential election politics, the Barack Obama administration Monday declared the Islamic Republic of Iran a 'primary money laundering concern' - a designation that stops short of blacklisting Iran's Central Bank but is intended to persuade more foreign governments, banks and companies to curtail business with Iranian financial entities.
CARRIBEAN: Fresh Challenges Accompany Progress in AIDS Fight
- Inter Press Service
Cracey Fernandes, the president of the Guyana Sex Work Coalition, does not hide the fact that he is homosexual.
SPAIN: Socialist Defeat Could Give Rise to a New Left
- Inter Press Service
The crushing defeat suffered by Spain's governing socialist party may pave the way for the emergence of a new alterative left capable of standing up to the centre-right People's Party (PP), which won a landslide victory in Sunday's elections.
Activists Tie Occupy Movement to Global Gender Rights
- Inter Press Service
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Nov. 25, a group of feminist organisations will unite to launch a campaign calling for an end of the 'immoral and unethical economy of Wall Street' against women and people of colour.
SOUTH AMERICA: Coming Together to Preserve the La Plata Basin
- Inter Press Service
Five South American countries have launched a joint sustainable management programme for the Río de la Plata basin, to preserve one of the largest fresh water reserves in the world.
NEPAL: Community Forestry Unfazed by Political Turmoil
- Inter Press Service
Nepal’s joint forest management system has taken such deep roots that the country’s prolonged political instability has had little effect on it.
UGANDA: Single Mothers Left Behind in Flooded Swampland
- Inter Press Service
Life in Bwaise — a slum on the outskirts of the capital of Uganda — has never been easy. But increasingly erratic rains over the last three years have brought constant floods to the former swampland. Residents who can afford to are moving out, leaving the poorest — often single mothers and grandmothers — behind.
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