News headlines for “Human Population”, page 333
What’s Driving the Merciless Asylum Seeker Policies in Australia?
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, Mar 11 (IPS) - As conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere pushed the number of refugees to 13 million last year, the international community is struggling to shoulder the humanitarian responsibility of protecting those fleeing violence and persecution in their homelands.
Coal: Burning Up Australia’s Future
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Mar 11 (IPS) - With less than a year to go before the United Nation's annual climate change meeting scheduled to take place in Paris in November 2015, citizens and civil society groups are pushing their elected leaders to take stock of national commitments to lower carbon emissions in a bid to cap runaway global warming.
U.N. Says Maternal Mortality Rate Has Nearly Halved since 1990
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - The global rate of maternal deaths is reducing faster than any time in history, according to a new report presented to the United Nations on Tuesday.
A Italian and Tanzanian Partnership
- Inter Press Service
Women Make Progress in Politics, But Glass Ceiling Remains Unbreakable
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a creature of the U.N.'s 193 member states and who serves at their will and pleasure, did not hesitate to fault 13 countries that kept women out of their national parliaments and governments in power.
Guatemala Praised for Policies on Adolescent Girls
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - The government of Guatemala has been praised for a programme helping young women avoid unwanted pregnancies and finish their education.
Brazil – from the Droughts of the Northeast to São Paulo’s Thirst
- Inter Press Service
SÃO PAULO, Mar 10 (IPS) - Six million people in Brazil's biggest city, São Paulo, may at some point find themselves without water. The February rains did not ward off the risk and could even aggravate it by postponing rationing measures which hydrologists have been demanding for the last six months.
200 Million Fewer Women than Men Online
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - Two hundred million fewer women have access to the internet than men, according to a report released Monday.
First the Taliban, then the Army, now Hunger: The Woes of Pakistan’s Displaced
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Mar 10 (IPS) - A doctor shakes his head in despair as he examines a 10-year-old child at the Jalozai refugee camp, about 35 km by road from Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
Bridging the Gender Inequality Gap in the Media
- Inter Press Service
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