Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1500
Landgrabbing in Ethiopia: Legal Lease or Stolen Soil?
- Inter Press Service
Kneeling in the middle of a sugar cane field in blistering 40 degree heat, a young boy is digging up weeds while an Indian worker stands over him to make sure he does not miss any. Red is eight years old and earns 73 pence for one day’s work - less than the cost of using pesticides.
Can BRICS Make a Difference at Busan? - Part 2
- Inter Press Service
While experts are hopeful that blocs of emerging market economies like BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — will play a major role in the upcoming aid effectiveness conference in Busan, South Korea, others fear that the new players do not yet have the fiscal power to make a serious intervention in fora generally dominated by rich donor states.
China Steps in to Patrol the Lawless Mekong
- Inter Press Service
China plans to send armed patrol boats down the Mekong River and assert its authority over a corner of Southeast Asia infested by warlords and drug traffickers.
COLOMBIA: Student Protesters Demand Quality - and Equality
- Inter Press Service
The 'occupation' of Bogotá by students, backed by parents and professors as well as social and cultural sectors, is continuing even after the Colombian government offered to withdraw its controversial bill to reform education if the protests were called off.
Brazil Commits to Quality Food for All
- Inter Press Service
Representatives of the Brazilian federal and municipal governments and of indigenous, black and riverbank communities and other groups that make the population of this country so diverse assumed a commitment to fight for 'the human right to an adequate diet.'
Q&A: 'Gender Violence Is Not Natural and Not Inevitable'
- Inter Press Service
Dedicated efforts by women's rights advocates are bearing fruit, UN Women says: for example, two-thirds of the world's countries now have legal provisions to stop domestic violence.
RELIGION-CUBA: Good Climate for Pope’s Visit
- Inter Press Service
A visit by the Pope to Cuba would strengthen the climate of dialogue between the government and the Catholic Church, analysts agreed after the announcement that Benedict XVI is considering visiting this country in the spring of 2012.
Can the BRICS Make a Difference At Busan?
- Inter Press Service
As shock waves from Greece's economic crisis emanate across the Eurozone and the Occupy protests in the U.S. grow bolder in their critique of the dominant neoliberal system, it seems clear to many observers that the old hegemonic economic order is fading fast.
AFRICA: Failure to Adopt Technology in Libraries Results in Fewer Users
- Inter Press Service
Simret Mebrahtu has been an infrequent visitor to the National Library of Uganda in the centre of Kampala for nearly two years. A student, she stops by every couple of weeks to use the cheap internet connection if one of the few computers is available.
DEVELOPMENT: UNESCO Turns On the Radio
- Inter Press Service
The demise of radio has been predicted for many years, but the medium is adapting, transforming and proving to be a cost-effective tool in development, experts say.
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