Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 179
A Disease as Old as Time - Eliminated but Not Eradicated
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 05 (IPS) - As the Executive Director of Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation (SMHF), Takahiro Nanri has been working on the issue of leprosy since 2014. Over the past few years, he has traveled across the world visiting the large number of leprosy projects that SMHF has been supporting and meeting dozens of organisations led by leprosy-affected people.
Q&A: Important to Treat Anyone Suffering from Leprosy as an Equal Individual
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 05 (IPS) - Discrimination against women who are affected by leprosy or Hansen's Disease is a harsh reality, says Alice Cruz is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members.
New Regional Secretariat to Advance Leprosy Advocacy in Asia
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 05 (IPS) - Organisations of people affected by leprosy in Asia have agreed to form a regional-level secretariat to support national advocacies and represent their collective agenda at a world conference to be held later this year.
Q&A: Leprosy-affected People Live Not at the Bottom, but Outside the Social Pyramid
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 05 (IPS) - Takahiro Nanri is the Executive Director of Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation which has been supporting the global fight against leprosy for almost five decades. Since 2014, Nanri has been leading the foundation's leprosy projects across the world and has deep insights into the challenges faced by the people affected by leprosy as well as the organisations that work with them.
International Women’s Day: Don't Let Anyone Tell You How Far You Can Go
- Inter Press Service
BARCELONA, Mar 04 (IPS) - Leire Gurruchaga Iraola is Gender Specialist at Educo, described as a global development and humanitarian action NGO with over 25 years' experience working to defend children and their rights, and especially the right to an equitable and quality education.
The data – with its sexism and its gaps – shows us that many of the barriers girls experience are determined merely by their gender.
This inequality, present in all societies, is by far the most widespread bias. At Educo we are determined, like the women and girls we work with, to put a stop to this injustice. And not just on International Women's Day March 8, but every day.
Criminality, School Dropout and Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 04 (IPS) - I assume it was the Swedish author Stieg Larsson´s Millenium trilogy (2005-2007) that generated the popularity of Scandinavian Crime Fiction, as well numerous movies and TV-series that followed in its wake. A typical Nordic Noir novel takes place within a gloomy landscape of dreary towns, or a semi-deserted countryside, where under the thin surface of an apparently well-ordered society, murder, misogyny, rape, racism and international crime syndicates are thriving.
Living with Leprosy on the Climate-Vulnerable Kiribati Island Atolls
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 04 (IPS) - Kurarenga Kaitire lives in Kiribati—one of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations. Already vulnerable to nature, the 29-year-old mother of five has faced a series of vulnerabilities over the past decade, including facing social stigma and domestic abuse.
Three Ex-UN Leaders Form Women’s Group to Save Multilateralism
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 04 (IPS) - Dulcie Leimbach* was a fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of CUNY from 2012 to 2017. She is the founder of PassBlue, for which she edits and writes, covering primarily the United Nations, West Africa, peacekeeping operations and women's issues.
As multilateralism takes a beating from President Trump amid the "new world disorder," as one European diplomat put it, three women who know the United Nations inside and out through previous top leadership jobs have originated a Group of Women Leaders for Change and Inclusion.
Violence Fuels Mobilisation by Women against Brazil's Anti-Gender Equality Government
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 04 (IPS) - This article is part of IPS's coverage of International Women's Day, celebrated on March 8.
Crime, a key issue in far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's election in Brazil, has a dimension that is gaining in visibility and could turn against his government: gender violence.
A Leprosy-free Philippines by 2020?
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 03 (IPS) - Dr Maria Francia Laxamana, assistant secretary of health in the Department of Health, Philippines outlines her recommendations for a leprosy country by 2020.
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