News headlines for “Human Population”, page 244
Rural Poverty? Cooperatives!
- Inter Press Service
ALICANTE, Spain, Jun 24 (IPS) - Humanity has had and has big projects. Mastery of nature is one, still going on. Middle range phenomena have been mastered, but not the micro level of viri–HIV is a current case–nor the macro level of climate–to the contrary, humanity is making it worse.
Global Devaluation of Work Drives Up Unemployment in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 24 (IPS) - In addition to driving up the number of unemployed people to 14.2 million, the severe recession of the last two years led Brazil to join the global trend of flexibilisation of labour laws in order to further reduce labour costs.
“Black Soils’ - Excessive Use of Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, Mercury…
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 23 (IPS) - Soil are polluted due mostly to human activities that leave excess chemicals in soils used to grow food, the United Nations reports.
No Wall for Ethiopia, Rather an Open Door—Even for Its Enemy
- Inter Press Service
ADINBRIED, Ethiopia, Jun 22 (IPS) - It's one thing to read about the exodus of souls flowing out of Eritrea, it's quite another to look into the tired eyes, surrounded by dust and grime, of a 14-year-old Eritrean girl who's just arrived on the Ethiopian side of the shared border.
Sexual Violence Fuels Vicious Recruitment Cycle in Congolese Militia
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) - In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the active recruitment of young girls by armed militias has produced disastrous effects—facing social stigma when they're freed, many girls find their way back to these violent groups and rejoin them.
Asia-Pacific: Farming Rice and Fish Together to Reduce Poverty
- Inter Press Service
ROME/BANGKOK, Jun 20 (IPS) - Rice is a major food commodity and staple food for many, and adding fish to flooded rice paddies has been a farming tradition practiced in a number of Asian countries for many centuries—even for more than 1000 years in some Chinese areas, the United Nations reports.
BRICS to Lead World’s Efforts to Eradicate Hunger, Poverty by 2030
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 16 (IPS) - With the clock ticking toward the 2030 deadline for meeting the international goals to eradicate hunger and poverty, five of the world's most important emerging economies are well positioned to take a leading role in helping to achieve these objectives, according to the United Nations.
Men Who Commit Femicide to Lose Rights Over Their Children in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 16 (IPS) - In January 2008, Rosana Galliano was shot to death in Exaltación de la Cruz, a rural municipality 80 km from Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires. Her ex-husband, José Arce, who was sentenced to life in prison, had hired hitmen to kill her.
Women, Still Major Victims of Sharp Disparities at Workplaces
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 15 (IPS) - Reducing gender disparities at workplaces by 25 per cent by 2025 could inject nearly 5.8 trillion dollars into the global economy and boost tax revenues, according to a United Nations, ahead of the UN Labour Organization's Summit on "A better future for women at work" on June 15.
Drought Pushes 1 in 3 Somalis to a Hunger Knife-Edge
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 15 (IPS) - Another famine in former European colonies in Africa and another time in its Eastern region, with Ethiopia and Somalia among the major victims of drought and made-made climate disasters mainly caused by US and European multinational business.
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