News headlines for “Human Population”, page 310
“Why Hire a Lawyer When You Can Buy a Judge?”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 08 (IPS) - A woman is stopped at a checkpoint; she gives birth, and dies. Another is sold in a slave market. A boy is killed by a tank. A young man drowns at sea, trying to reach a haven safe from oppression and poverty.
Humanitarian Emergencies Lend Urgency to World Population Day
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 08 (IPS) - On the eve of World Population Day, the United Nations is fighting a virtually losing battle against growing humanitarian emergencies triggered mostly by military conflicts that are displacing people by the millions – and rendering them either homeless or reducing them to the status of refugees.
Social Safety Net Not Wide Enough to Protect World’s Poor
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 07 (IPS) - Fifty-five percent of the world's poor still have limited protection from hunger and economic, social or political crises despite expansion of social safety programmes in developing countries in recent years.
Opinion: Unlocking the Potential of Mali’s Young Women and Men
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Jul 07 (IPS) - The recent peace agreements in Mali offer grounds for optimism. It's now time to capitalise on the accord to accelerate recovery, reconciliation and development. An important part of that process will entail placing the country's youth at the center of the country's agenda for peace and prosperity.
Will the New BRICS Bank Break with Traditional Development Models, or Replicate Them?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 07 (IPS) - Just days ahead of a summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in which the five countries are expected to formally launch their New Development Bank (NDB), 40 NGOs and civil society groups have penned an open letter to their respective governments urging transparency and accountability in the proposed banking process.
Ebola Recovery Focuses on Strengthening Africa’s Health Systems
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 07 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, addressing delegates in a run-up to an international Ebola recovery conference, said last month that "all of the investments, all of the sacrifices and all of the risks by relief workers" would be squandered if an outbreak of the disease recurs.
Putting the “Integrity of the Earth’s Ecosystems” at the Centre of the Sustainable Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 06 (IPS) - By 2050, we will be a world of nine billion people. Not only does this mean there'll be two million more mouths to feed than there are at present, it also means these mouths will be consuming more – in the next 20 years, for instance, an estimated three billion people will enter the middle class, in addition to the 1.8 billion estimated to be within that income bracket today.
Despite Scepticism, U.N. Hails Its Anti-Poverty Programme
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 06 (IPS) - The United Nations, which launched one of its most ambitious anti-poverty development programmes back in 2000, has hailed it as a riveting success story – despite shortcomings.
Opinion: Religion and the SDGs – The ‘New Normal’ and Calls for Action
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 06 (IPS) - In 2007, an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune argued that you "gotta have faith in the U.N".
Equality, a Hard Game to Win for Women Footballers in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 06 (IPS) - During a women's football match in a poor neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, team manager Mónica Santino has to stop the game and ask a group of boys and young men not to invade the pitch where they're playing. This frequent occurrence is just one symbol of a struggle being played out, centimeter by centimeter, on Argentina's pitches.
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