Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 343
Marginalised Communities Warn of AIDS/TB “Tragedy” in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Inter Press Service
KIEV, Dic 09 (IPS) - Marginalised communities and civil society groups helping them are warning of a "tragedy" in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) as international funding for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) programmes in the regions is cut back.
OPINION: Women Must Be Partners and Drivers of Climate Change Decision-Making
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 08 (IPS) - As leaders from around the world gather in Lima, Peru this week to discuss global cooperation in addressing climate change, a woman in Guatemala will struggle to feed her family from a farm plot that produces less each season.
“Indigenous Peoples Are the Owners of the Land” Say Activists at COP20
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Dic 06 (IPS) - The clamor of indigenous peoples for recognition of their ancestral lands resounded among the delegates of 195 countries at the climate summit taking place in the Peruvian capital. "I want my land…that's where I live and eat, and it's where my saintly grandparents lie," Diana Ríos shouted with rage.
U.N.'s 17 Sustainable Development Goals Remain Intact
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 04 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has refused to jettison any of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by an Open Working Group of member states: goals aimed at launching the U.N.'s new post-2015 development agenda through 2030.
Climate Finance Flowing, But for Many, the Well Remains Dry
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Dic 04 (IPS) - For more than 10 years, Mildred Crawford has been "a voice in the wilderness" crying out on behalf of rural women in agriculture.
Football Stars Join ‘Africa United’ Campaign to Stop Spread of Ebola
- Inter Press Service
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, Dic 03 (IPS) - The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has joined a number of football stars, celebrities, international health organisations and corporations in the ‘Africa United' global health communications campaign aimed at preventing the spread of Ebola in West Africa.
Native Villagers in Honduras Bet on Food Security – and Win
- Inter Press Service
VICTORIA, Honduras, Dic 03 (IPS) - The town's dynamic mayor, Sandro Martínez, assumed the commitment of turning the Honduran municipality of Victoria into a model of food and nutritional security and environmental protection by means of municipal public policies based on broad social and community participation and international development aid.
OPINION: Stand in Solidarity with Courageous Women’s Human Rights Defenders
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 02 (IPS) - Almost two decades ago, in Beijing, 189 countries made a commitment to achieve equality for women, in practice and in law, so that all women could at last fully enjoy their rights and freedoms as equal human beings.
U.N. Chief, Under Fire, Moves Closer to Gender Parity
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 02 (IPS) - When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named an international panel to review peacekeeping operations last October, the announcement was greeted with bitter criticism because it lacked even a semblance of gender balance: only three out of 14 members were women.
As Wars Multiply, U.N. Takes a Hard Look at Peace Operations
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 01 (IPS) - Finding ways to better integrate the two arms of U.N. Peace Operations - Special Political Missions and Peacekeeping Operations - will be one of the priorities for a new review panel headed by Nobel Peace Laureate and former president of Timor-Leste José Ramos-Horta.
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