News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1510
FILM: Political Prisoners Are Burma's Unsung Heroes
- Inter Press Service
In a move that highlighted its sub-par human rights record, the government of Burma announced Oct. 11 that it would release 6,359 prisoners, but how many of these will be drawn from the country's estimated 500 to over 2,000 political prisoners remains uncertain.
Q&A: U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews DR. ABDULLA BIN ALI AL-THANI, chair of the Doha summit
- Inter Press Service
As digital technology begins to spread across classrooms the world over, the United Nations says the next generation of children will be educated far differently from their counterparts in the past.
HAITI: Nascent Union Charges Reprisals by Textile Factory Owners
- Inter Press Service
Workers in Haiti's apparel manufacturing sector charge that factory owners are repressing attempts to organise workers in the capital, after the dismissals of six of seven leading members of a new union within just two weeks of its formation.
OP-ED: China's Farming History Misapplied in Africa
- Inter Press Service
As sub-Saharan Africa grapples with high food prices in some regions and famine in others, many experts argue that increasing food production through a programme of hybrid seeds and chemical inputs is the way to go.
Hard Times Ahead for Caribbean Sugar
- Inter Press Service
The Sugar Association of the Caribbean (SAC) has been buoyed by a large crop this year, but a recent proposal by the European Union to abolish domestic quotas would likely cut into preferential sugar exports by the SAC and other sugar associations in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to European markets.
EL SALVADOR: Water Bill Stagnates in Congress
- Inter Press Service
A bill for protection, recovery and use of water resources in El Salvador, drafted by a platform of about 100 social, religious and academic organisations, has been bogged down in parliament for the past five years in spite of the country's water crisis.
Anti-G20 Summit Prepares Its Case
- Inter Press Service
Anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist groups are gathering ahead of the G20 meeting in Cannes in the south of France next week.
WEST AFRICA: Solar Panels Light Up Remote Villages
- Inter Press Service
Frequent power cuts have led people in rural areas of Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal to turn to solar energy for electricity.
In Latin America, Closing the Gender Gap Brings Fresh Challenges
- Inter Press Service
Over the past four decades in Latin America and the Caribbean, women have made remarkable strides in education, health, labour, and beyond, with girls now outperforming boys in school, the rate of working women more than doubling in many countries, and female participation rising in politics.
U.S.: New Inequality Data Likely to Boost 'Occupy' Movement
- Inter Press Service
A major study on income equality by a non-partisan government agency is likely to boost the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, whose standing with the general public appears on the rise, according to a new poll.
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