Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 977
Years in the Making, Arms Trade Treaty Enters into Force
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 24 (IPS) - A new Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) beginning on Dec. 24 represents a historic moment in global efforts to keep weapons proliferation in check.
Falling Oil Prices Threaten Fragile African Economies
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 23 (IPS) - The sharp decline in world petroleum prices - hailed as a bonanza to millions of motorists in the United States - is threatening to undermine the fragile economies of several African countries dependent on oil for their sustained growth.
Q&A: "The Economy Needs to Serve Us and Not the Other Way Around"
- Inter Press Service
SEATTLE, Dic 23 (IPS) - Since his college days, John Schmitt says, he's been "very interested in questions of economic justice, economic inequality."
School Dropout Rate Soars for Afghan Refugees
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Dic 22 (IPS) - "Our children quitting school is the greatest pain we have suffered during our troublesome lives here," says Multan Shah, a vegetable-seller in a shantytown of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of Pakistan's four provinces.
Seeking Closure, Bougainville Confronts Ghosts of Civil War
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Australia, Dic 21 (IPS) - Thirteen years after the peace agreement which ended a decade-long civil war in Bougainville, an autonomous island region of 300,000 people located east of the Papua New Guinean (PNG) mainland in the southwest Pacific Islands, trauma and grief continue to affect families and communities where the fate of the many missing remains unresolved.
‘Cyclone College’ Raises Hopes, Dreams of India’s Vulnerable Fisherfolk
- Inter Press Service
NEMMELI, India, Dic 20 (IPS) - Ten years have now passed, but Raghu Raja, a 27-year-old fisherman from the coastal village of Nemmeli in southern India's Kachipuram district, still clearly remembers the day he escaped the tsunami.
What the U.S. Should Learn from Russia’s Collapse
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 20 (IPS) - After months of whispered warnings, Russia's economic troubles made global headlines when its currency collapsed halfway through December. Amid the tumbling price of oil, the ruble has fallen to record lows, bringing the country to its most serious economic crisis since the late 1990s.
GDP and the Unaccounted for 82 Percent of National Wealth
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Dic 19 (IPS) - Virtually all countries use Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as their primary measurement of economic progress and overall societal progress. At the same time, countries express allegiance to the doctrine of sustainable development. This exposes an obvious disconnect.
Changes to World Bank Safeguards Risk “Race to the Bottom”, U.N. Experts Warn
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 19 (IPS) - An unprecedented number of United Nations special rapporteurs and independent experts are raising pointed concerns over the World Bank's ongoing review of its pioneering environmental and social safeguards, particularly around the role that human rights will play in these revamped policies.
REDD and the Green Economy Continue to Undermine Rights
- Inter Press Service
, Dic 18 (IPS) - Dercy Teles de Carvalho Cunha is a rubber-tapper and union organiser from the state of Acre in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, with a lifelong love of the forest from which she earns her livelihood – and she is deeply confounded by what her government and policymakers around the world call "the green economy."
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