News headlines for “Human Population”, page 299
Activists Say Fracking Fails to 'Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful'
- Inter Press Service
MONTROSE, Pennsylvania, USA, Sep 17 (IPS) - U.S. activist Vera Scroggins has been sued five times by the oil industry, and since October 2013 she has faced a restraining order banning her from any properties owned or leased by one of the biggest players in Pennsylvania's natural gas rush, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation.
UAE Government Stresses its Abidng Support for Syrian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, Sep 17 (IPS) - In response to suggestions that the Gulf states are doing littleor nothing to help Syrians fleeing their civil war, the Government of the United Arab Emirates has announced that it has take a broad range of supportive actions to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian population and to care for Syrian refugees in Syria and abroad, reports WAM.
Opinion: The Century of the Centenarians
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 17 (IPS) - With improving life styles, advances in medical science and technologies and declining mortality rates at older ages, the 21st century is witnessing the remarkable rise of centenarians, people who are aged 100 years or older.
Costa Rica Finally Allows In Vitro Fertilisation after 15-Year Ban
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Sep 15 (IPS) - After banning in vitro fertilisation for 12 years and failing to comply with an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling for another three years, Costa Rica will finally once again allow the procedure for couples and women on their own.
Antofagasta Mining Region Reflects Chile’s Inequality
- Inter Press Service
CALAMA, Chile, Sep 11 (IPS) - In the city of Calama, the so-called mining capital of Chile in the northern region of Antofagasta, the marked social contrasts are reflected by the proximity of affluent neighbourhoods of modern homes next to shantytowns of tumbledown wooden huts. Credit: Marianela Jarroud/IPS The inhabitants of the northern Chilean mining region of Antofagasta have the highest per capita income in the country. But some 4,000 local families continue to live in slums - a reflection of one of the most marked situations of inequality in this country.
Mental Health Another Casualty of Changing Climate
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Sep 08 (IPS) - Jun* is in chains, tied to a post in the small house that resembles a fragile nipa hut. His brother did this to prevent him from hurting their neighbours or other strangers he meets when he's in a ballistic mood. Jun has been like this for three years now, but since Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines two years ago, his symptoms have worsened.
Opinion: From Inequality to Inclusion
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 08 (IPS) - Recent years have seen a remarkable resurgence of interest in economic inequality, thanks primarily to growing recognition of some of its economic, social, cultural and political consequences in the wake of Western economic stagnation.
Rich Gulf Nations Tight-Lipped on Growing Refugee Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 08 (IPS) - As Western and Central European nations seem overwhelmed by the growing refugee crisis – triggered mostly by the inflow of hundreds and thousands of displaced people largely from Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq – one lingering question remains unanswered: why aren't some of the rich Arab Gulf nations reaching out to help these hapless refugees?
Opinion: Women’s Major Role in Culture of Peace - Part Two
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 07 (IPS) - Another reality that emerges very distinctly in culture of peace is that we should never forget when women – half of world's seven billion plus people - are marginalised and their equality is not established in all spheres of human activity, there is no chance for our world to get sustainable peace in the real sense.
Opinion: Promoting Culture of Peace Through Dialogue - Part One
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 07 (IPS) - This week, for the fourth time in a row, the annual gathering of the apex intergovernmental body of the United Nation deliberating on peace and non-violence will take place at the U.N. headquarters in New York.
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