News headlines for “Human Population”, page 144
COVID-19: Zimbabwe’s Smallholder Farmers Step into the Food Supply Gap
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, May 12 (IPS) - Bulawayo, Zimbabwe' second city of some 700,000 people, has experienced a shortage of vegetables this year, with major producers citing a range of challenges from poor rains to the inability to access to bank loans to finance their operations. But this shortage has created a market gap that Zimbabwe smallholders — some 1.5 million people according to government figures — have an opportunity to fill.
Finding Money for Public Health, Green Economic Recovery & SDGs
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, May 12 (IPS) - The coronavirus pandemic underscores the profound fragility and unsustainability of today's world. It exposes the chronic underinvestment in human health and well-being and the consequences of a relentless exploitation of biodiversity and the natural environment.
Africa’s Health Dilemma: Protecting People from COVID-19 While Four Times as Many Could Die of Malaria
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, May 11 (IPS) - Experts across Africa are warning that as hospitals and health facilities focus on COVID-19, less attention is being given to the management of other deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which affect millions more people.
Women Taking Charge during COVID-19
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 11 (IPS) - As the COVID-19 mayhem carries on in most countries, the role of mothers, daughters, and female caregivers have been affected the most. Besides looking after the household and home schooling children, they are also working on the front lines, actively or passively caring for their respective communities.
Former Child Bride Holds Pakistan to Account for Wrongful Imprisonment in Historic Legal Challenge
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, May 08 (IPS) - A former Pakistani child bride, who was wrongly accused of killing her husband at 13 and subsequently spent almost two decades in prison, is making history by being the first victim of a miscarriage of justice to seek compensation from the state, say legal human rights experts.
COVID-19: The Digital Divide Grows Wider Amid Global Lockdown
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 08 (IPS) - The digital divide has become more pronounced than ever amid the global coronavirus lockdown, but experts are concerned that in the current circumstances this divide, where over 46 percent of the world's population remain without technology or internet access, could grow wider -- particularly among women.
Coronavirus Hasn´t Slowed Down Ecological Women Farmers in Peru's Andes Highlands
- Inter Press Service
HUASAO, Peru, May 06 (IPS) - It's eight o'clock in the morning and Pascuala Ninantay is carrying two large containers of water in her wheelbarrow to prepare with neighbouring women farmers 200 litres of organic fertiliser, which will then be distributed to fertilise their crops, in this town in the Andes highlands of Peru.
Q&A: COVID-19 Means we Must Innovate Data Collection, Especially on Gender
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 05 (IPS) - The current coronavirus pandemic can offer insight into how to shake-up traditional methods of data collection, and might provide an opportunity to do it in more innovative ways, in turn enhancing progress towards gender equality.
Protect Journalists' Rights so We can Stop the COVID-19 Disinfodemic
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, May 01 (IPS) - Andrew Sam Raja Pandian, a digital journalist and founder of a news portal in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, was arrested for running two news articles related to COVID-19.
One of the articles exposed corruption in the government food aid distribution system, while the other highlighted doctors in Coimbatore city facing food issues. The city police first detained the journalist and photographer who had reported on the stories, Jerald Aruldas and M Balaji, for 9 hours before arresting Pandian for publishing the pieces.
Only Sustainable Investment & Global Cooperation Can Counter COVID’s Blow to SDGs
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 30 (IPS) - We are today in a time of crisis—a time when our shared choices will shape the way history tells our story and the paradigm shift it has so forcefully provoked.
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