Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 339
In the Shadow of Glacial Lakes, Pakistan’s Mountain Communities Look to Climate Adaptation
- Inter Press Service
BINDO GOL, Pakistan, Jan 15 (IPS) - Khaliq-ul-Zaman, a farmer from the remote Bindo Gol valley in northern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has long lived under the shadow of disaster.
Boko Haram Insurgents Threaten Cameroon's Educational Goals
- Inter Press Service
MAROUA, Far North Region, Jan 14 (IPS) - "I'd quit my job before going to work in a place like that." That is how a primary school teacher responded when IPS asked him why he had not accepted a job in Cameroon's Far North region.
OPINION: Islamic Reformation, the Antidote to Terrorism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (IPS) - The horrific terrorist attack on the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo has once again raised the question about violence and Islam. Why is it, some ask, that so much terrorism has been committed in the name of Islam, and why do violent jihadists seek justification of their actions in their religion?
OPINION: For the Good of Humanity – Towards a Culture of Caring
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jan 13 (IPS) - About a week ago my wife was taken to hospital and diagnosed with pneumonia. She was promptly treated with antibiotics and, wonderfully, is now on the mend.
More Than Half of Africa's Arable Land ‘Too Damaged’ for Food Production
- Inter Press Service
NTUNGAMO DISTRICT, Uganda, Jan 13 (IPS) - A report published last month by the Montpellier Panel - an eminent group of agriculture, ecology and trade experts from Africa and Europe - says about 65 percent of Africa's arable land is too damaged to sustain viable food production.
European Citizens Call for Increased Aid to Developing World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 12 (IPS) - An overwhelming majority of citizens in the 28-member European Union (EU) - which has been hamstrung by a spreading economic recession, a fall in oil prices and a decline of its common currency, the Euro - has expressed strong support for development cooperation and increased aid to developing nations.
Women ‘Sewing’ a Bright Future in Northern Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 12 (IPS) - At 46, Naseema Nashad is starting her life over, not out of choice but out of necessity. The Afghan woman was just 25 years old when Taliban militants stormed Kabul and her family was forced to flee to neighbouring Pakistan to escape what they knew would be a brutal regime.
Bhopal Cloud Hovers Over Industrial Safety in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jan 11 (IPS) - Three decades after 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide India Limited plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal on Dec. 3, 1984 – killing an estimated 4,000 almost instantly and maiming and blinding hundreds of thousands of others – the world's worst industrial disaster remains a sharp lesson on the need for greater safety regulations in Asia's third-largest economy.
Video Games, Poverty and Conflict in Bab Al-Tabbaneh
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Lebanon, Jan 10 (IPS) - "People get used to war. During the last battle, children were still coming to play. Can you imagine, a seven-year-old boy running through the bullets just to play video games," says Mohammad Darwish, a calm man with a curled beard framing his face.
OPINION: Global Citizenship, A Result of Emerging Global Consciousness
- Inter Press Service
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina, Jan 10 (IPS) - Globalisation is an integral feature of modernity. It already has significantly advanced to transform local experiences into global ones, to unify the disparate villages of the world into a global community, and to integrate national economies into an international economy.
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