Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 992
OPINION: One Mexico, or Many?
- Inter Press Service
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Mexico, Nov 01 (IPS) - Mexico can charm, irritate, wound, inspire and confuse the casual visitor as well as the informed researcher. But no one is ever left indifferent by it. Mexico leaves an indelible mark.
Child Poverty in Spain Seen Through the Eyes of Encarni
- Inter Press Service
MÃLAGA, Spain, Nov 01 (IPS) - "I would like to have a big house, and I wish my family didn't have to go out and ask for food or clothes," Encarni, who just turned 12, tells IPS in the small apartment she shares with five other family members in a poor neighbourhood in the southern Spanish city of Málaga.
Another Women's Treaty? Implement Existing One, Say NGOs
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) - Can violence against women be prevented or eliminated with a new international treaty signed and ratified by the 193 member states of the United Nations?
Mozambique Tackles its Twin Burden of Cervical Cancer and HIV
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Oct 31 (IPS) - The woman on bed 27 in Maputo Central Hospital's oncology ward has no idea how lucky she is. In January, when abdominal pains wracked her, a pharmacist suggested pain killers. For months, "the pain would go and return," she told IPS.
Canada Accused of Failing to Prevent Overseas Mining Abuses
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (IPS) - The Canadian government is failing either to investigate or to hold the country's massive extractives sector accountable for rights abuses committed in Latin American countries, according to petitioners who testified here Tuesday before an international tribunal.
Better Water Management Needed to Eradicate Poverty
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Oct 30 (IPS) - It demands repetition: water is a precondition for all life. It keeps us alive – literally – while being a prerequisite for or integral part of most of our daily activities. Think hospitals without water, think farms, energy producers, industries, schools and homes without our most needed resource. All sectors, without exception, are dependent on water.
OPINION: From Almaty to Vienna, New Prospects For LLDCs
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 30 (IPS) - Kazakhstan being the world's largest landlocked country, and also the ninth largest country in the world of more than 2.7 million square kilometres, hosted in 2003 in Almaty the First United Nations Conference on Landlocked Countries.
There’s CO2 Under Those Hills
- Inter Press Service
LUCCA, Italy, Oct 30 (IPS) - "If they go ahead and dig those wells, all my work will be destroyed, all my life, everything," says Franca Tognarelli, looking at the hills and vineyards around her house in Certaldo, Val d'Elsa, in the heart of Tuscany.
Crisis Fuelled Resurgence of Horse-Drawn Carriages in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
, Oct 30 (IPS) - Up and down the streets of towns and cities in Cuba go horse-drawn carriages with black leather tops and large back wheels, alongside more simple carts, operating as public transportation.
OPINION: Rousseff Re-elected President – What Lies Ahead for Brazil?
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 30 (IPS) - The tight race between incumbent President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil's Workers' Party and her opponent, Aecio Neves from the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) party, ended on Sunday, Oct. 26 with the re-election of Rousseff.
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