News headlines for “Human Population”, page 345
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.
Sri Lanka's Minorities Choose "Unknown Angel” Over “Known Devil”
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jan 09 (IPS) - When the initial results started trickling in a little after midnight on Jan. 9, it still wasn't clear exactly which way the country would swing: had Sri Lanka's 15 million eligible voters thrown in their lot with incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa for a third term? Or would the desire for change put common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the helm?
Integrated Farming: The Only Way to Survive a Rising Sea
- Inter Press Service
SUNDARBANS, India, Jan 08 (IPS) - When the gentle clucking grows louder, 50-year-old Sukomal Mandal calls out to his wife, who is busy grinding ingredients for a fish curry. She gets up to thrust leafy green stalks through the netting of a coop and two-dozen shiny hens rush forward for lunch.
Organic Farming in India Points the Way to Sustainable Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
NAGAPATNAM, India, Jan 07 (IPS) - Standing amidst his lush green paddy fields in Nagapatnam, a coastal district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a farmer named Ramajayam remembers how a single wave changed his entire life.
The Rise and Fall of the World's Poorest Nations
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 07 (IPS) - The world's 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) - a special category of developing nations created by the General Assembly in 1971 but refused recognition by the World Bank - have long been described as "poorest of the poor" in need of special international assistance for their economic survival.
OPINION: Sabotaging U.S.-Cuba Détente in the Kennedy Era
- Inter Press Service
WHITE PLAINS, New York, Jan 06 (IPS) - I grew up in Hickory Hill, my family's home in Virginia which was often filled with veterans of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
Child Sex Crimes: Uruguay’s Ugly Hidden Face
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Jan 05 (IPS) - Karina Núñez Rodríguez was only 12 when she was forced into prostitution. Now age 50 and a mother of six, she is an outspoken fighter against sexual exploitation of children and teenagers in Uruguay, a country reluctant to recognise this growing scourge.
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