News headlines for “Human Population”, page 323
Opinion: Continuing the Centennial Work of Women and Citizen Diplomacy in Korea
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - A century ago, the suffragist Jane Addams boarded a ship with other American women peace activists to participate in a Congress of Women in The Hague.
Anti-Foreigner Discrimination ‘Fostered in South African Schools’
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - A practice of denying admission to South African public schools of children without visas or whose parents are refugees from other African countries is creating a foundation for the current rash of xenophobia, critics of the practice say.
Opinion: Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realising Rights
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - Our world is out of balance. It is both wealthier and more unequal today than at any time since the Second World War.
No Woman, No World
- Inter Press Service
Want to Help Nepal Recover from the Quake? Cancel its Debt, Says Rights Group
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - The death toll has now passed 3,300, and there is no telling how much farther it will climb. Search and rescue operations in Nepal entered their third day Monday, as the government and international aid agencies scramble to cope with the aftermath of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck this South Asian nation on Apr. 25.
Swelling Ethiopian Migration Casts Doubt on its Economic Miracle
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Apr 25 (IPS) - The 28 Ethiopian migrants of Christian faith murdered by the Islamic State (IS) on Apr. 19 in Libya had planned to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of work in Europe.
Kenyan Pastoralists Protest Wanton Destruction of Indigenous Forest
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Apr 25 (IPS) - Armed with twigs and placards, enraged residents from a semi-pastoral community 360 km north of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, protested this week against wanton destruction of indigenous forest – their alternative source of livelihood.
Push to Privatise Education in Global South Challenged
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Apr 24 (IPS) - The multinational education and publishing company Pearson PLC was challenged during its annual general meeting on Apr. 24 by representatives of civil society and trade union groups over various profit-driven programmes aimed at expanding private education in numerous countries in the global South.
Opinion: To Solve Hunger, Start with Soil
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Apr 24 (IPS) - Peter looked confused as he recounted how he'd painstakingly planted potatoes to sell and to feed his family of eight, only to find that when harvest time rolled around he had been greeted with tiny tubers not much bigger than golf balls.
Riches in World’s Oceans Estimated at Staggering 24 Trillion Dollars
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 23 (IPS) - The untapped riches in the world's oceans are estimated at nearly 24 trillion dollars – the size of the world's leading economies, according to a new report released Thursday by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
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