News headlines for “Human Population”, page 174
The Storm is Over, But in Southern Africa, Cyclone Idai Continues to Rage for Women and Girls
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jun 13 (IPS) - In late March Cyclone Idai carved a path of devastation across Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Malawi. It was the deadliest cyclone to hit the region in more than a century, others have even referred to it as "Africa's Hurricane Katrina." More than 1,000 people were killed. Many more saw their homes, food crops, and even entire villages washed away.
The Forgotten Migrants of Central America
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 12 (IPS) - Rural and indigenous populations in countries like Guatemala and Honduras are increasingly on the move – either migrating internally or to neighbouring countries.
Championing Social Changes: A Tale of Two Women
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Spain, Jun 11 (IPS) - Karessa Ramos is Social Media Data Analyst for BBVA Microfinance Foundation based in Madrid.
This is the story of two women who are positively transforming social norms in their respective societies, as part of the global movement towards gender equality.
A Journey from a Small-Scale Farm to International Stage
- Inter Press Service
LAGOS, Nigeria, Jun 10 (IPS) - Chinasa Asonye is CEO of Chileofarms, a women's farming collective.
As a wife and mother in Nigeria who wanted to support my family and my community, I began my own farm in 2006. When I began, I never could have dreamed that just cultivating the earth would someday lead to my meeting government leaders, and traveling to meet other women from around the world doing their part to make a difference in their own communities.
Mothers in the US Are Dying: What Are We Doing to Save Them?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jun 07 (IPS) - Juan Pablo Segura is Co-founder of Babyscripts, the leading virtual care platform for managing obstetrics.
The maternal mortality rate in the United States is the highest of any developed country – and the rate is rising. The US is currently the most dangerous place to give birth in the developed world.
Empower Ocean Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 07 (IPS) - Our oceans play a major role in everyday life, but they are in grave danger. To protect the ocean, we must look to a crucial, largely overlooked component: gender.
We Must do More to Speed up Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 05 (IPS) - Niklas Hagelberg is Coordinator, Climate Change Programme, UN Environment
Fossil fuels—oil, gas, coal and their derivatives—pollute the atmosphere and emit the greenhouse gases that are ramping up global heating to dangerous levels. But did you know that governments around the world are subsidizing this pollution?
We Won’t Achieve Gender Equality Until We Address the Lack of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Malawi, Jun 04 (IPS) - Mercy Masoo is Country Director, WaterAid Malawi
Giving birth is a life changing moment for women. It can be - when women have a safe and caring environment, positive and empowering - a moment to find a previously untapped inner strength.
An Escalating War on Reproductive Rights
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 03 (IPS) - Abortion has long been a contentious issue across the world, and the debate is only heating up, prompting women to stand up and speak out for their reproductive rights.
Modi Cruises with Ease as Prime Minister of India for a Second Term
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Jun 03 (IPS) - Siva Sivapragasam is Executive Editor, Toronto-based "Monsoon Journal"
The boy who sold tea at railway platforms for a living has become the Prime Minister of world's largest democracy for the second time. Narendra Dhamodaradas Modi, incumbent Prime Minister and leader of the BJP secured a second chance to be the Prime Minister at Indian elections which took place recently. The election was perhaps the largest held in any part of the world with 39 days of polling and involving as many as 900 million voters.
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