News headlines for “Human Population”, page 128
Bringing Clean Water On Tap To Rural Villages In Polynesian Island Nation Of Tuvalu
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Nov 18 (IPS) - Rural communities on one of the nine islands that make up the Polynesian nation of Tuvalu are anticipating how life will change when they are connected to piped clean water for the first time.
African Employers for Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Nov 18 (IPS) - Africa has over 700 companies with an annual revenue of more than $500 million, including 400 with revenue above $1 billion. The ability of these companies to thrive rests on building and retaining talented women and men.
Our Development Priorities Have Shifted to the Immediate Task of Saving Lives & Livelihoods.
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (IPS) - We have come to the point in the agenda where we must take a deep-dive in reviewing the lessons learnt so far in our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to chart a way for the future. But the future, by its very definition, must be relative. Flexibility and change will define policy making and the scope of action needed for development.
COVID-19 Compounding Inequalities
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 17 (IPS) - The United Nations’ renamed World Social Report 2020 (WSR 2020) argued that income inequality is rising in most developed countries, and some middle-income countries, including China, the world’s fastest growing economy in recent decades.
Reversing the Rohingya Crisis: One Woman at a Time
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Nov 16 (IPS) -
This is a crisis without a quick fix that could take years to resolve unless there are concerted efforts to address its root causes
, says Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes.WFP - 'Focus on Starvation, Destabilisation and Migration to Avert a COVID-19 Global Food Crisis'
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 16 (IPS) - Food security has become a priority in the Caribbean as COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions have hit the tourism-dependent region hard.
In India, Ending FGM Demands Truth and Transparency
- Inter Press Service
NOIDA, India, Nov 13 (IPS) - "My daughter is eight years old. In May 2017, I had her ‘Khatna,' her circumcision, done. I had taken her to a traditional cutter. Once back home I made her sleep on the bed. After some time, around 4:00 p.m. I took her to the bathroom, she was bleeding as if she had started her menses. It seemed like she was urinating blood. By 6:00 p.m. my daughter had been bleeding so heavily, the blood had soaked three bed sheets and I was very worried. And my daughter was quiet and she also kept asking me if she will be fine." Excerpt from: How I got her from the hands of death: WeSpeakOut study2018
Punches & Insults: Why Zimbabwe's Women Candidates Want to Change the Political Playing Field
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 06 (IPS) - "I have long given up on active politics," Gertrude Sidambe, a 36-year-old member of one of Zimbabwe's opposition parties, tells IPS.
When female members of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front complained last month about political violence as male members chose brawn over brains to solicit for positions, the party's National Secretary for Women's Affairs Mabel Chinomona advised that they enter the punch-and-insult battlefield and "fight" like everyone else.
Women in War-Ravaged Afghanistan Fight Back for Their Rights
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov 05 (IPS) - Bullets, bombs, tyranny and torture. Children crying for food, civilians struggling to survive, women unable to walk out of their homes freely. When we are not under siege from bombs and landmines, ordinary Afghans suffer from hunger, natural hazards and poverty.
Forced Child Marriage & Conversion: Public Discussion & Legal Reforms Called for in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, Nov 04 (IPS) - October 13 began like any other day at the Lal house as Raja Lal and his wife Rita Raja left for work at 7:30 am.
"I made the usual breakfast of anda paratha (egg and flat bread) and told my eldest to lock the door from inside," Raja, who works as an ayah in a school, told IPS. Their 13-year old daughter, the youngest of their four children, did not go to school that day as her school shoes no longer fit and her parents hadn't bought her a new pair yet.
Little did they know that that day was the beginning of a nightmare for the Lal household. Their daughter would then allegedly be "abducted, forcefully converted and married in just one day", Lal, a Christian, told IPS.
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