Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1502
BRAZIL: Proper Nutrition - the Next Food Challenge
- Inter Press Service
Fighting malnutrition is not just about putting food on everyone's table every day, according to Brazil's Fourth National Conference on Food and Nutrition Security, meeting in the capital of the northeastern state of Bahia.
ARGENTINA: Digital Revolution Hits Secondary Schools
- Inter Press Service
Every student and teacher has a laptop with Internet connection in half of the public secondary schools in Argentina, even in remote rural villages or on islands.
CANADA: Harper Government Guts Environment Programmes
- Inter Press Service
Canada's Stephen Harper government is spending more than 60 billion dollars on new military jets and warships while slashing more than 200 million dollars in funding for research and monitoring of the environment.
Brazilian Winds Fuel Green Job Creation
- Inter Press Service
The term 'green jobs', coined to describe employment that contributes in some way to preserving or restoring the environment, is increasingly entering the vocabulary of companies keen to respond to the social demand for a cleaner economy.
ENVIRONMENT: Nepali Women Live With Climate Terror
- Inter Press Service
Suntali Shrestha wrings her hands in tension and despair as she recounts how she has been spending sleepless nights fearing that the flood alarm in her village would go off while she slept and she would be submerged.
RWANDA: Refugees Fear Cessation Clause
- Inter Press Service
They should be weary of each other. The historical conflict between their ethnicities has resulted in Africa’s largest genocide. But Claude Kayitare sits on the verandah of a popular Johannesburg restaurant, chatting to his friend, Theogene Nshimyimana. It seems an easy friendship, a sight that does not raise eyebrows in South Africa, but it took years for mutual distrust and suspicion to move towards friendship.
Haitian Cholera Victims Seek Reparations from U.N.
- Inter Press Service
More than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims are seeking compensation, action and an apology from the U.N. and the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) for the ongoing epidemic that has killed more than 6,600 Haitians and sickened more than 476,000 since October 2010.
Brazil Takes the Fight Against Hunger Abroad
- Inter Press Service
The Brazilian government is extending its fight against hunger to the world stage, by inaugurating a Centre of Excellence Against Hunger to transmit its positive experiences to other developing countries with the help of United Nations agencies.
Global Crisis Makes U.N. Reform Imperative
- Inter Press Service
Reinventing the United Nations is crucial to protect the poorest inhabitants of the planet, at a time when the global economic crisis, the effects of climate change, and food insecurity are undermining development efforts.
PAKISTAN: Wanted: A Revolution For Girls
- Inter Press Service
Sixteen-year-old Noor Bano believes nothing short of a revolution will convince the men in Malangabad — her remote village in the Khairpur district of the Sindh province, some 460 kilometres from the southern port city of Karachi — to treat women as equals.
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