News headlines for “Human Population”, page 242
Gender Equality? It’s Still a Man’s World
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug 03 (IPS) - Gender inequality is the greatest moral and social issue of our time -- and the world's most critical economic challenge. If half of the global population cannot fulfill their human potential, the world's economic growth will falter.
Climate Change Brings Migration from the Dry Corridor to Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast
- Inter Press Service
MATAGALPA, Nicaragua, Aug 01 (IPS) - If the impact of drought and poverty in the municipalities of the so-called Dry Corridor in Nicaragua continues pushing the agricultural frontier towards the Caribbean coast, by the year 2050 this area will have lost all its forests and nature reserves, experts predict.
Water is Precious, Fragile and Dangerous - It Can Sustain or Destroy
- Inter Press Service
ROME/DHAKA, Jul 31 (IPS) - Water is precious, fragile, and dangerous. It can sustain or destroy.
US Lags Far Behind in Banning Dental Health Hazard
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 31 (IPS) - The United States is lagging far behind its Western allies – and perhaps most of the key developing countries – in refusing to act decisively to end a longstanding health and environmental hazard: the use of mercury in dentistry.
Value of Water Is on the Rise
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Jul 28 (IPS) - In the wake of recent water-related disasters in Bangladesh, including water-logging and floods that displaced thousands of families, a high-level consultation in the capital Dhaka on valuing water will look at ways to optimize water use and solutions to water-related problems facing South Asia.
“The Time is Now” to Invest in Youth, Girls
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 28 (IPS) - The demographic dividend: though not a new concept, it is one of the major buzzwords at the UN this year. But what does it really mean?
UN Appoints Experts to DRC’s Kasai to Probe Harrowing Rights Abuses
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 (IPS) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, appointed a team of three international experts yesterday to collect information and raise awareness about grave atrocities in the ongoing conflict in the remote Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
To Achieve Ambitious Goals – We Need to Start with our Basic Rights
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 26 (IPS) - Recent protests in Ethiopia have seen people demonstrate in their thousands, angry at their authoritarian government, its favouritism towards those close to the ruling elite, and its failure to share the country's wealth more equally.
Parliamentarians Study Nexus of Youth, Refugees and Development
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Jordan, Jul 21 (IPS) - Held for the first time in the Arab world, an annual meeting of Asian and Arab Parliamentarians examined how regional conflicts hinder the development of effective policies to achieve sustainable development, particularly as they generate large numbers of refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants.
Educating Children One Radio Wave at a Time
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 (IPS) - Nigeria's conflict has displaced more than a million children, leaving them without access to education. However, an innovative radio program aims to transform this bleak scenario.
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