News headlines for “Human Population”, page 338

  1. Fighting Extremism with Schools, Not Guns

    - Inter Press Service

    KARACHI, Jan 21 (IPS) - As a wave of outrage, crossing Pakistan's national borders, continues a month after the Dec. 16 attack on a school in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, some citizens are turning away from collective expressions of anger, and beginning the hard work of building grassroots alternatives to terrorism and militancy.

  2. From Bullets to Ballots: The Face of Sri Lanka’s Former War Zone

    - Inter Press Service

    VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka, Jan 20 (IPS) - In four months' time, Sri Lanka will mark the sixth anniversary of the end of its bloody civil conflict. Ever since government armed forces declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on May 19, 2009, the country has savored peace after a generation of war.

  3. Caribbean Youth Ready to Lead on Climate Issues

    - Inter Press Service

    PORT OF SPAIN, Jan 19 (IPS) - At 24 years old, Stefan Knights has never been on the side of those who are sceptical about the reality and severity of climate change.

  4. In India’s Western Gujarat State, Sustainable Energy Starts With the Sun

    - Inter Press Service

    BARODA, India, Jan 19 (IPS) - It began with an experiment to install photovoltaic cells over an irrigation canal that forms part of the Sardar Sarovar canal network – a massive hydel power project across the River Narmada that irrigates some 1.8 million hectares of arable land in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

  5. Pacific Islands Call for New Thinking to Implement Post-2015 Development Goals

    - Inter Press Service

    SYDNEY, Jan 19 (IPS) - As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of poverty-alleviation targets set by the United Nations, come to a close this year, countries around the world are taking stock of their successes and failures in tackling key developmental issues.

  6. OPINION: A New Era of Hemispheric Cooperation Is Possible

    - Inter Press Service

    MONTEVIDEO, Jan 18 (IPS) - Two decades after the first Summit of the Americas, a lot has changed in the continent and it has been for the good. Today, a renewed hemispheric dialogue without exclusions is possible.

  7. Zimbabwe's Children Are the Battlefield in War to Contain HIV/AIDS

    - Inter Press Service

    HARARE, Jan 17 (IPS) - Fifty-one-year-old Mateline Msipa is living with HIV. Her 17-year-old daughter, born after Msipa was diagnosed with the virus, may also have it, but she has never been tested.

  8. Battle Heats Up Over Legalisation of Sex Work in India

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (IPS) - Thirty-six-year-old Chameli Devi, a sex worker operating out of New Delhi's G.B. Road - Asia's largest red-light district, housing an estimated 12,000 of India's three million sex workers – is an unhappy woman these days.

  9. Humanity’s Future: Below Replacement Fertility?

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 15 (IPS) - Is below replacement level fertility the future for humanity? The answer to this seemingly simple question regarding human reproduction is not only of considerable demographic concern, but also has enormous social, economic and environmental consequences for the planet.

  10. Papal Visit Rekindles Hopes in Former War Zone

    - Inter Press Service

    MADHU, Sri Lanka, Jan 15 (IPS) - Jessi Jogeswaran, a 20-year-old woman from Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna district, waited over six hours with 18 friends in the sweltering heat just to get a glimpse of Pope Francis on Jan. 14.

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