News headlines for “Human Population”, page 278
Now 1 in 2 World’s Refugees Live in Urban Area
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 19 (IPS) - It is true that millions of refugees, especially in Africa and the Middle East, reside in camps. But in all they represent only one-quarter of the total number of refugees.
A Precarious Fate for Climate Migrants in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 19 (IPS) - After the sea swallowed up her home and family in the Bangladeshi coastal district of Bhola along the Bay of Bengal, farmer Sanjeela Sheikh was heartbroken. Stripped of all her belongings, her fields swamped and her loved ones dead, she contemplated suicide.
Many Cities Don't Know How Dangerous Their Air Pollution Is
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 19 (IPS) - China and India are not the only countries with an air pollution problem, 98 percent of cities in developing countries don't meet World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standards according to research published by the UN body last week.
A Latin American Humanitarian Emergency Invisible to the World
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, May 19 (IPS) - "This is a humanitarian crisis," said Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, referring to the generalised violence in Mexico and in Honduras and other countries of Central America, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and is a product of transnational crime, but is invisible to the international community.
Kenya's Young Inventors Shake Up Old Technology
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, May 18 (IPS) - Emma Masibo and Lucy Bwire have many things in common.
A Refugee Crisis with No End in Sight
- Inter Press Service
GAZA, Palestine, May 18 (IPS) - "We don't want charity, we want a long-term solution."
'Human Suffering Has Reached Staggering Levels’
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 17 (IPS) - "Human suffering from the impacts of armed conflicts and disasters has reached staggering levels."
Analysis: Why the UN Needs a “Peace Industrial Complex”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 17 (IPS) - In a world where annual defence spending is over 1.6 trillion dollars and the UN Peacebuilding Fund receives less than 700 million dollars, it would seem that the military industrial complex is unwaveringly entrenched.
Industrial-Level Aid Logistics in Colombia’s Decades-Long Humanitarian Disaster
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, May 16 (IPS) - "If you're going to talk about Colombia and the peace process, do it somewhere else," was heard at a regional preparatory meeting for the World Humanitarian Summit, according to Ramón Rodríguez, with the Colombian government's Unit for Attention and Integral Reparation for Victims (UARIV).
OPINION: Fear Is not a Good Counsellor
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 16 (IPS) - A new spectre is haunting the world. It is not the spectre of communism, as Marx's Manifesto famously proclaimed. It is the spectre of fear, which has increasingly become the rationale behind politics. And, as the old proverb says, fear is not a good counselor.
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