Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 330
Opinion: Let’s Grant Women Land Rights and Power Our Future
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Mar 04 (IPS) - Women are not only the world's primary food producers. They are hardworking and innovative and, they invest far more of their earnings in their families than men. But most lack the single most important asset for accessing investment resources – land rights.
Tech-Savvy Women Farmers Find Success with SIM Cards
- Inter Press Service
MAHABUBNAGAR, India, Mar 04 (IPS) - Jawadi Vimalamma, 36, looks admiringly at her cell phone. It's a simple device that can only be used to send or receive a call or a text message. Yet to the farmer from the village of Janampet, located 150 km away from Hyderabad, capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana, it symbolises a wealth of knowledge that changed her life.
Tackling Ebola: Give Autonomy to Local African Communities, Says International Rescue Committee
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - Recommendations on how to eradicate Ebola and avoid future outbreaks were released in a report on Tuesday by the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Opinion: It’s Time to Step It Up for Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - If we look at the headlines or the latest horrifying YouTube clip, Mar. 8 – International Women's Day – may seem a bad time to celebrate equality for women.
Gaza Reconstruction, Hampered by Israeli Blockade, May Take 100 Years, Say Aid Agencies
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - Despite all the political hoopla surrounding an international pledging conference in Cairo last October to help rebuild Gaza, the reconstruction of the Israeli-devastated territory is apparently moving at the pace of paralytic snail.
Women Leaders Call for Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 03 (IPS) - Women leaders from every continent, brought together by U.N. Women and the Chilean government, demanded that gender equality be a cross-cutting target in the post-2015 development agenda. Only that way, they say, can the enormous inequality gap that still affects women and children around the world be closed.
For Women in Asia, ‘Home’ Is a Battleground
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - Nearly half of the four billion people who reside in the Asia-Pacific region are women. They comprise two-thirds of the region's poor, with millions either confined to their homes or pushed into the informal labour market where they work without any safeguards for paltry daily wages. Millions more become victims of trafficking and are forced into prostitution or sexual slavery.
Namibian President Wins $5 Million African Leadership Prize
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 02 (IPS) - Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba was Monday named winner of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, believed to be the most lucrative individual award in the world.
Everyone Benefits from More Women in Power
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 02 (IPS) - Women's participation in decision-making is highly beneficial and their role in designing and applying public policies has a positive impact on people's lives, women leaders and experts from around the world stressed at a high-level meeting in the capital of Chile.
Syrian Conflict Has Underlying Links to Climate Change, Says Study
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 02 (IPS) - Was the four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, mostly civilians, triggered at least in part by climate change?
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