News headlines in May 2011, page 25

The growing demands for democratic reforms spreading across the Middle East and North Africa - along with the dramatic rise of social media networks - have triggered 'a human rights revolution on the threshold of a historic change', says Amnesty International (AI).

Up to five people were killed when Ugandan police clashed with opposition supporters who attacked cars carrying African leaders at the inauguration of President Yoweri Museveni.

As the battle for Libya rages on - with the country’s economic heartland, Misurata, being the scene of some of the uprising’s fiercest fighting - experts are warning that a ‘Balkanisation’ of Libya is possible if the U.S. and NATO opt to exploit loopholes in U.N. Resolution 1973 by arming the opposition.

As the battle for Libya rages on - with the country’s economic heartland, Misurata, being the scene of some of the uprising’s fiercest fighting - experts are warning that a ‘Balkanisation’ of Libya is possible if the U.S. and NATO opt to exploit loopholes in U.N. Resolution 1973 by arming the opposition.

Unique species of native birds live in the transition zone in Peru between the Andes mountains and the Amazon rainforest, where illegal deforestation is destroying their habitat.

People in the U.S. are becoming more and more open towards homosexuality, in part due to the trendy Hollywood culture that conveys the image of young, hip and good looking gay men and women. But the situation changes when it comes to the elderly.

Officials of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in north-western Pakistan want the federal government to send in the army, following a suicide attack that killed some 80 paramilitary police trainees at Shabqadar Fort in Charsadda town north of Peshawar Friday morning.

The world’s 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs), most of them with large youth populations, should invest in young people in order to speed up economic growth and help meet development priorities, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), UNFPA’s Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, said at the LDC IV Summit in Istanbul Thursday.

The global community needs to do much more to combat climate change, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, (UNFCCC) said emphatically at a press briefing on Thursday.

The world’s cities are responsible for up to 70 per cent of the world’s harmful greenhouse gas emissions. And if these cities don’t take action for a sustainable change, there will be a deadly collision between urbanization and climate change, warns a new report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).