Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 186
Indigenous People, the First Victims of Brazil’s New Far-Right Government
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 10 (IPS) - "We have already been decimated and subjected, and we have been victims of the integrationist policy of governments and the national state," said indigenous leaders, as they rejected the new Brazilian government's proposals and measures focusing on indigenous peoples.
Recorded Increase in Human Trafficking, Women and Girls Targeted
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 09 (IPS) - Human trafficking is on the rise and it is more "horrific" than ever, a United Nations agency found.
In a new report examining patterns in human trafficking, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that the global trend has increased steadily since 2010 around the world.
Local Innovation Facilitates Solidarity-Based Biogas Networks in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jan 08 (IPS) - Black plastic pipes, readily available on the mainly empty shelves of Cuba's shops, distribute biogas to homes in the rural town of La Macuca, buried under the ground or running through the grass and stones in people's yards.
Designer Babies can Lead to Growth of Homogenous Individuals
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jan 07 (IPS) - Jagriti Gangopadhyay is a post-doctoral fellow at the Manipal Center for Humanities, Manipal, India.
A Chinese researcher has claimed that he helped make world's first genetically edited babies but the development may come at a heavy cost. A designer baby is a GM human embryo with appropriate qualities which have been shaped as per the instructions received from the parents.
Solar Energy Crowns Social Housing Programme in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
PALMEIRAS DE GOIÁS, Brazil, Jan 04 (IPS) - "Solar energy makes my happiness complete," said Divina Cardoso dos Santos, owner of one of 740 houses with photovoltaic panels on the rooftops in a settlement on the outskirts of this central Brazilian city.
Getting Sustainable Development Back on Track in Asia & the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan 03 (IPS) - Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
2019 will be a landmark year for the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Four years will have passed since world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Four years since governments recommitted themselves to eradicating extreme poverty, improving universal health care coverage, education and food security, and achieving a sweeping set of economic, social and environmental objectives. Long enough to assess our direction of travel and then refocus work where progress is falling short.
The Adolescent Girl Holds the Key to Kenya’s Economic Transformation and Prosperity
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 31 (IPS) - Teenage pregnancy in Kenya is a crisis of hope, education and opportunity.
The countdown to a New Year has begun. Can 2019 be a year of affirmative action to ensure hope and opportunity for Kenya's adolescent girl?
Changing the Gender Bias in Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
WAGENINGEN, the Netherlands, Dec 22 (IPS) - Women entrepreneurs are playing an important role in transforming global food security for economic growth, but they have to work twice as hard as men to succeed in agribusiness.
Women in Argentina Are Empowered as They Speak Out Against Gender Violence
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 22 (IPS) - "In 2001 I was raped. I was 31 years old, had two university degrees and was still doing postgraduate studies, I had family, friends, a job. Many more resources than most rape victims have. Even so, it was the start of an ordeal whose scars I still feel today."
Human Trafficking - Hidden in Plain Sight
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 21 (IPS) - The media globally tends to have a bias to negative, sensational and headline grabbing stories and events and this certainly applies to reporting related to human trafficking in the third world. With the abundance of stories around sweat shops, massage parlours and organ trafficking networks happening ‘somewhere else', the West is generally desensitised, lacks empathy and fails to fully appreciate the scale of the problem which sits right under their noses and in plain sight.
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