News headlines for “Human Population”, page 313
Studying and Working Poses New Challenges for Argentina’s Youth
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 23 (IPS) - Until not too long ago, young people in Argentina faced a choice: whether to study or drop out and go to work. But now most adolescents in Argentina who work also continue to study – a change that poses new challenges for combating school dropout, repetition and truancy, as well as the circle of poverty.
Opinion: Sub-Saharan Africa, Addis and Paris
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 23 (IPS) - After the turn of the century, growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) picked up again after a quarter century of near stagnation for most, mainly due to increased world demand for minerals and other natural resources.
Critics of World Bank-Funded Projects in the Line of Fire
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 22 (IPS) - For an entire month beginning in February 2015, a group of between 40 and 50 residents of the Durgapur Village in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand would gather at the site of a hydroelectric power project being carried out by the state-owned Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDC).
Opinion: The Oceans Need the Spotlight Now
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jun 22 (IPS) - The international community must focus its energies immediately on addressing the grave challenges confronting the oceans. With implications for global order and peace, the oceans are also becoming another arena for national rivalry.
Opinion: Ethical Challenges to Advertising
- Inter Press Service
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Jun 20 (IPS) - Challenges to advertisers and marketers arose in the past century. Critics deplored the role of cigarette marketers who exploited the aspirations of women by associating smoking with liberation.
Take Good News on Afghanistan’s Reconstruction With a ‘Grain of Salt’
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 19 (IPS) - Since 2002, a year after it invaded Afghanistan, the United States has poured over 100 billion dollars into developing and rebuilding this country of just over 30 million people. This sum is in addition to the trillions spent on U.S. military operations, to say nothing of the deaths of 2,000 service personnel in the space of a single decade.
Amazon Dam also Brings Health Infrastructure for Local Population
- Inter Press Service
ALTAMIRA, Brazil, Jun 19 (IPS) - Extensive public health infrastructure and the eradication of malaria will be the most important legacy of the construction of the Belo Monte hydropower dam in Brazil's Amazon jungle for the population affected by the megaproject.
Opinion: 2015 and Beyond, Young Voices, Loud Demands
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jun 19 (IPS) - As a young person interested in development, my heart beats a little faster when I look at the potential of 2015. There has never been so much at stake as this year for the future of our planet.
Farmers Find their Voice Through Radio in the Badlands of India
- Inter Press Service
TIKAMGARH, India, Jun 19 (IPS) - Eighty-year-old Chenabai Kushwaha sits on a charpoy under a neem tree in the village of Chitawar, located in the Tikamgarh district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, staring intently at a dictaphone.
Pope Could Upstage World Leaders at U.N. Summit in September
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 18 (IPS) - Judging by his recent public pronouncements - including on reproductive health, biodiversity, the creation of a Palestinian state, the political legitimacy of Cuba and now climate change – Pope Francis may upstage more than 150 world leaders when he addresses the United Nations, come September.
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