News headlines for “Human Population”, page 159
The Most Important Meeting You’ve Never Heard Of -- & the Grand Challenge on Inequality
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 09 (IPS) - Last month 195 world leaders once again met in New York for big speeches and grand events. But on inequality, when all is said and done, more has been said than done.
UN Women Ambassadors Rise to New Heights But Fall Short of Gender Parity
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 08 (IPS) - New York's diplomatic community has continued to be enriched by a record number of women Permanent Representatives (PRUNs)—50 in all, as of October 2 – compared with about 15 to 20 back in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Global Climate Change Investment Heavily Tilted Towards Mitigation and Low on Adaptation
- Inter Press Service
INCHEON, South Korea, Oct 08 (IPS) - Good news: the graph depicting climate investments has been steadily increasing. Climbing from the 2012 figure of $360 billion in climate investments across the world to close to $600 billion currently.
Hollywood and Business Luminaries Spotlight World’s ‘Stateless’ Woes
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 08 (IPS) - Movie star Cate Blanchett and businessman Richard Branson spoke up this week for the millions of people around the world who cannot get passports and other papers because they lack an official nationality.
Reforms Will Grant Nationality to Children of Iranian Women
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Oct 07 (IPS) - After more than a decade of women's rights activism, Iran's Guardian Council has finally approved an amendment that would grant Iranian citizenship to the children of Iranian women married to foreign men.
Afghan War Deadly for Children Despite Peace Process: UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 04 (IPS) - The United Nations has warned that the past four years were among the deadliest for children in Afghanistan since the United States-led invasion of 2001, with nearly 13,000 youngsters killed and injured in that period.
Can We Feed the World and Ensure No One Goes Hungry?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 04 (IPS) - Enough food is produced today to feed everyone on the planet, but hunger is on the rise in some parts of the world, and some 821 million people are considered to be "chronically undernourished". What steps are being taken to ensure that everyone, worldwide, receives sufficient food?
Human Trafficking - It Came Disguised as the Opportunity of a Lifetime
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 03 (IPS) - Six years ago Mary Njambi* received news of a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity far away from her poverty-stricken village situated in the heart of Kiambu County, Central Kenya. She was 20 years old, a single mother and out of work.
Salvaging the SDGs: New Thinking to Spur Action Takes Shape
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 03 (IPS) - For the first time since a new development agenda was adopted in 2015 to make the world a better place for everyone, government leaders assembled at the United Nations in late September to take stock of progress. The verdict of this summit was not good.
No to Ageism, Yes to Intergenerational Equality
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct 01 (IPS) - As we are celebrating the International Day of Older Persons today, we recognize that population ageing is a human success story, a story of longer and often healthier lives of the world's people. The many faces of older persons that we see in Asia and in the Pacific, and, indeed, all over the world, attest to this fact.
Still, however, ageing is considered a threat. There is talk about the "burden of ageing", exploding healthcare costs, and concerns about plummeting economic growth due to the shrinking labour force. In many cities of Asia-Pacific, we see advertisement for "anti-ageing cosmetics" and surgeries. The current ideal is that we must be young, dynamic and without wrinkles or grey hair, especially older women.
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