Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1503
U.S. Move Hurts More Than UNESCO
- Inter Press Service
The United States’ decision to cut funding for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation will hurt the specialised agency’s work, officials here say.
China Looks at Life After Euro
- Inter Press Service
If Chinese detractors of liberal democracy and unbridled market development ever needed more fodder for their attacks on the West, then last week's Greek farce provided plenty. But behind the headlines announcing 'the collapse of Europe' there is little sense of ideological triumph. Instead Beijing is busy drawing up contingency pans for the break up of the eurozone and absorbing the lessons of welfare state excesses.
Brazilian NGOs Say Rio+20 Paper Short on Details
- Inter Press Service
Environmentalists criticised the lack of concrete proposals in the Brazilian government's submission to the preparatory process for the Rio+20 conference, to be held in this city in June 2012.
ARGENTINA: Women Gain Budget Know-How
- Inter Press Service
'After so many years of feminist activism, we still hadn't realised that you need money to get things done. When I finally understood that, it was like seeing the light. It was a whole new avenue to explore,' Argentine activist Noemí Chiarotti told IPS.
JAPAN: Women Fight to Save Fukushima's Children
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of Japanese women have been converging on the Japanese capital demanding better relief for some 30,000 children exposed to nuclear radiation by the Fukushima meltdown.
OP-ED: A Rio+20 Activist Manifesto and Action Plan
- Inter Press Service
Unless civil society activists launch their own programme of action at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro next summer (Jun. 4-6), the event will be little more than an expensive talkfest.
PAKISTAN: Cricket Idol Bowls Political Googly
- Inter Press Service
He could be Pakistan’s Obama, although he spews venom at the United States government for its drone attacks and its policies in the region. But Imran Khan speaks of change and, like Obama, enjoys huge online support from the youth.
Q&A: Reducing Inequality Should Be a Political Priority
- Inter Press Service
According to the Human Development Report 2011 released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) this week, Latin America remains the region with the highest income inequality, even as the situation has improved in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Mexico and Peru.
G20: Final Push for Financial Transactions Tax
- Inter Press Service
While the Greek bailout and stimulus package dominated discussion amoung the Group of 20 (G20) major industrialised and emerging market economies at the high-level summit in Cannes, France, this week, the proposed financial transactions tax (FTT) received meagre attention.
GUATEMALA: 'We Want Girls to Be Visible'
- Inter Press Service
'I learned to not be afraid, and to love myself. Before, I never wanted to talk to people because I felt like they looked down on me and that I was no good,' says 12-year-old Hilda Tura, one of the participants in a programme fostering leadership among indigenous girls in Guatemala.
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