Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 183
Fighting Machismo in Latin America: The Formula to Combat Femicides
- Inter Press Service
Peru began the year with 11 femicides in January, despite progress made in laws and statutes and mass demonstrations against gender-based violence. This situation is also seen in other Latin American countries, raising the need to delve deeper into the causes of the phenomenon.
Bullets Against Pots and Pans: The Crackdown on Venezuela's Protests Is Brutal
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Feb 01 (IPS) - The protests in Venezuela demanding an end to the presidency of Nicolás Maduro in the last 10 days of January, whose soundtrack was the sound of banging on pots and pans in working-class neighbourhoods, had a high human cost: more than 40 deaths, dozens wounded and about a thousand detainees, including 100 women and 90 children under 18.
Ending Violence Against Women & Girls in the Sahel: Crucial for Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 01 (IPS) - Amina Mohammed is the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.
After flying into the city of Bol in the Republic of Chad, over the lush fields and receding lakes, we landed to a rapturous welcome from traditional rulers and local women. Their faces reflected a hope and dignity slipping away under the harsh reality of poverty and insecurity.
Mexican Village Wants to Turn Thermoelectric Plant into Solar Panel Factory
- Inter Press Service
YECAPIXTLA, Mexico, Feb 01 (IPS) - Social organisations in the central Mexican municipality of Yecapixtla managed to halt the construction of a large thermoelectric plant in the town and are now designing a project to convert the installation into a solar panel factory, which would bring the area socioeconomic and environmental dividends.
Gender Gap Made Worse by Land Degradation
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Jan 31 (IPS) - In parts of the world where the gender gap is already wide, land degradation places women and girls at even greater risk.
People Power Will Bring Change -- Not Davos
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan 31 (IPS) - Jenny Ricks is the global convenor at Fight Inequality Alliance.
They said they cared about climate change but they flew in on private jets in record numbers. They said they cared about inequality but laughed off the idea of higher taxes for the rich. They spoke about democracy and human rights but they dined with a far-right populist. If there was ever any doubt about Davos representing the epitome of duplicity, then 2019 has firmly laid that to rest.
Crusade Against Sex Education Undermines Progress Made in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jan 30 (IPS) - The crusade against comprehensive sex education by conservative and religious sectors undermines progress in Latin America and could further drive up rates of teen pregnancy, communicable diseases and abuse against girls and adolescents.
The Marrakech Compact on Migration: Myths & Realities
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan 29 (IPS) - Paul Tacon is Social Affairs Officer, Social Development Division at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
When 164 UN member states adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (the Marrakech Compact on Migration) on 10 December last year, I read on social media that they had decided to give up control over migration to the UN.
The Silent, Invisible Crisis Destabilising Communities Could be a Subject of Hope
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Jan 29 (IPS) - New data show that globally two billion hectares of land—roughly twice the size of China—have been degraded. And of this amount, 500 million hectares are abandoned agricultural lands.
Ending Poverty is Possible, but it Means Facing up to Inequality – Within & Between Countries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 28 (IPS) - Liu Zhenmin* is UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs World leaders have committed to ending poverty everywhere for all people by 2030.
Achieving this aim means facing up to the need for dramatic declines in inequalities – in income, in opportunity, in exposure to risk, across gender, between countries and within countries – over the next decade.
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