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Communities Step Up to Help Save Jamaica’s Forests
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jul 12 (IPS) - According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 31.1 percent or about 337,000 hectares of Jamaica is forested. Of this, 26.1 percent or 88,000 is classified as primary forest, the most biodiverse and carbon-dense form of forest.
Nuclear Ban Approved, Now What?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 (IPS) - More than seven decades after the deployment of deadly atomic bombs in Japan, the UN has passed a historic treaty banning nuclear weapons around the world. Though it has sparked hope for a future without nuclear weapons, uncertainty in the success of the treaty still lingers.
Argentina Plans Billions of Dollars in Railway Projects
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 12 (IPS) - Development in Argentina in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century was closely tied to that of the railway. The eighth largest country in the world, Argentina's economy grew through exporting agricultural and livestock products, and the railways were key to founding centres of population and transporting goods to the ports.
Promoting Sustainable Population Growth, Key to Raising Human Rights Standards
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jul 11 (IPS) - The world population has witnessed a remarkable growth during the recent decades. In 1965, it stood at 3.3 billion people. In 2017 –52 years later-- the global population reached a staggering 7.5 billion people corresponding to more than a doubling of the Earth's residents over the last half-century.
For India’s Urban Marginalized, Reproductive Healthcare Still a Distant Dream
- Inter Press Service
CHENNAI/LONDON, Jul 11 (IPS) - In a semi-lit room of a southern Chennai neighborhood, a group of women sit in a circle around a table surrounded by large cardboard boxes of "Nirodh" – India's most popular condom.
Will the UN “Leave No One Behind” and Improve LGBTI Health and Well-Being?
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 10 (IPS) - While there has been progress in researching the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people and responding to certain emerging health threats in high-income countries - elsewhere in the world such research is inadequate and incomplete.
Three-Zone Biosecurity Offers New Hope to Indonesian Farmers
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Jul 10 (IPS) - Poultry farmer Bambang Sutrisno Setiawan had long heard about biosecurity but never gave serious thought to it, even when the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 forced him to cull thousands of his layer chickens in 2003 and 2009.
A Global Call for Journalists’ Safety
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 09 (IPS) - The UN system and its member states must develop policies to protect journalists and end impunity for crimes against them, said key stakeholders during a meeting.
Mexico’s Methane Emissions Threaten the Environment
- Inter Press Service
New Neocon Mantra: Iran, like Soviet Union, on Verge of Collapse
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 07 (IPS) - Iran hawks suddenly have a new mantra: the Islamic Republic is the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and the Trump administration should work to hasten the regime's impending collapse.
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