News headlines for “Human Population”, page 327
Millions of Dollars for Climate Financing but Barely One Cent for Women
- Inter Press Service
BALI, Indonesia, Apr 02 (IPS) - The statistics tell the story: in some parts of the world, four times as many women as men die during floods; in some instance women are 14 times more likely to die during natural disasters than men.
Curbing Tobacco Use – One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, Apr 02 (IPS) - The numbers are in, and there's not much to celebrate: every year, about six million people die as a result of tobacco use, including 600,000 who succumb to the effects of second-hand smoke.
Lesbians Receiving Unequal Treatment from Cuban Health Services
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Apr 01 (IPS) - In addition to other forms of discrimination, lesbian and bisexual women in Cuba face unequal treatment from public health services. Their specific sexual and reproductive health needs are ignored, and they are invisible in prevention and treatment campaigns for women.
Pledges for Humanitarian Aid to Syria Fall Short of Target by Billions
- Inter Press Service
KUWAIT CITY, Mar 31 (IPS) - When United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stood before 78 potential donors at the Bayan Palace in Kuwait Tuesday, his appeal for funds had an ominous ring to it: the Syrian people, he remarked, "are victims of the worst humanitarian crisis of our time."
There’s No Such Thing as Equality in India’s Labour Force
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 30 (IPS) - It calls itself the ‘world's largest democracy' but the 380 million working-aged women in India might disagree with that assessment.
Opinion: A Major Push Forward for Gender and Environment
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK/NAIROBI, Mar 30 (IPS) - Experts from around the world gathered in New York recently to launch work on the Global Gender Environment Outlook (GGEO), the first comprehensive, integrated and global assessment of gender issues in relation to the environment and sustainability.
Activists Protest Denial of Condoms to Africa’s High-Risk Groups
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Mar 28 (IPS) - Tatenda Chivata, a 16-year old from Zimbabwe's Mutoko rural district, was suspended from school for an entire three-month academic term after he was found with a used condom stashed in his schoolbag.
Cash-Strapped U.N. to Seek Funds for Syria at Pledging Conference in Kuwait
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 27 (IPS) - A cash-strapped United Nations, which is struggling to reach out to millions of Syrian refugees with food, medicine and shelter, is desperately in need of funds.
Impunity Fuels Abuse in Immigrant Detention Centres in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MÃLAGA, Spain, Mar 27 (IPS) - "They mistreat you, they don't respect you. I've seen beatings, suffering, and you can't defend yourself. When you're locked in there it's as if you were in another world," Salif Sy, a Senegalese man who in 2011 spent eight days in an immigrant detention centre (CIE) in Madrid, told IPS.
Afghanistan’s Economic Recovery: A New Horizon for South-South Partnerships?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 27 (IPS) - First the centre of the silk route, then the epicenter of bloody conflicts, Afghanistan's history can be charted through many diverse chapters, the most recent of which opened with the election of President Ashraf Ghani in September 2014.
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