News headlines for “Human Population”, page 331
Nine Million Children Impacted by Ebola Outbreak
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (IPS) - Nine million children have been affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, while thousands have lost parents to the virus, according to a new report from The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Opinion: Rape in Conflict: Speaking Out for What’s Right
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 18 (IPS) - Earlier this month, President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned speech marking the 50th Anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama and the bloody attack on civil rights marchers by police.
Women Turn Drought into a Lesson on Sustainability
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Mar 17 (IPS) - When a group of women in the remote village of Sadhuraks in Pakistan's Thar Desert, some 800 km from the port city of Karachi, were asked if they would want to be born a woman in their next life, the answer from each was a resounding ‘no'.
Pro-Democracy Activists at U.S. Event Jailed in DR Congo
- Inter Press Service
, Mar 17 (IPS) - Journalists, activists, hip hop artists and a United States diplomat were rounded up by police at a pro-democracy event on Sunday in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sponsored in part by the U.S. government. Security forces charged them with threatening stability, according to a government spokesperson.
Contradictions Beset U.N. Response to Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - An internal United Nations expert report released Monday by the non-governmental organisation AIDS-Free World reveals serious contradictions in the U.N.'s reporting of sexual exploitation and abuse by U.N. peacekeepers.
Women Often Forgotten In Cases Of Forced Disappearance
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - Governments must do more to address the impacts of forced disappearances of women, according to an international justice report released Monday.
Sendai Conference Stresses Importance of Women’s Leadership
- Inter Press Service
SENDAI, Japan, Mar 16 (IPS) - Women play a critical role in reducing disaster risk and planning and decision-making during and after disasters strike, according to senior United Nations, government and civil society representatives.
Four Ways Women Bring Lasting Peace to the Table
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - 2015 marks anniversaries for two significant commitments made to increasing women's participation at peace tables.
Indonesia’s Palm Oil Industry in Need of a Makeover
- Inter Press Service
BALI, Indonesia, Mar 16 (IPS) - Over the past three decades, 50 percent of the 544,150 square kilometres that comprise Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, has been taken over by the palm oil industry.
Opinion: Gender Equality, the Last Big Poverty Challenge
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 16 (IPS) - It is estimated that women account for two-thirds of the 1.4 billion people currently living in extreme poverty. They also make up 60 per cent of the world's 572 million working poor.
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