Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 346
Depression Casts Cloak of Infertility Over Kashmir Valley
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, Nov 19 (IPS) - It was almost midnight when Mushtaq Margoob woke up to the incessant ringing of his phone. It was his patient, a young woman whom Margoob, a renowned Kashmiri psychiatrist and head of the department of psychiatry at the only psychiatric hospital in Kashmir, had been treating for depression for many years.
Shale Oil Fuels Indigenous Conflict in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
CAMPO MARIPE, Argentina, Nov 18 (IPS) - The boom in unconventional fossil fuels has revived indigenous conflicts in southwest Argentina. Twenty-two Mapuche communities who live on top of Vaca Muerta, the geological formation where the reserves are located, complain that they were not consulted about the use of their ancestral lands, both "above and below ground."
U.N. Concerned Over Ebola Backlash
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is working on an emergency footing to battle the outbreak of Ebola, is worried about the potential for further isolation of the hardest-hit nations in West Africa.
Building Disaster Resilience Amidst Rampant Poverty
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Nov 17 (IPS) - Of the thousands of landslide-prone villages he has visited and worked with, R M S Bandara, a high-ranking official from Sri Lanka's National Building Resources Organisation (NBRO), says only one has made him sit up and take note.
Ebola Outbreak Affects Key Development Areas in Sierra Leone
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Nov 17 (IPS) - The outbreak of the deadly Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone has badly affected the West African country's move towards meeting key development goals.
Pushing the Voice of Syrian Women For a New Future
- Inter Press Service
GAZIANTEP, Turkey, Nov 15 (IPS) - For most Syrian women, the war has been a disaster. For some, it has also been liberating.
25 Years After Rights Convention, Children Still Need More Protection
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14 (IPS) - Next week marks 25 years since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a historic commitment to children and the most widely accepted human rights treaty in history.
Women’s Safety Schemes Go Mobile in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Nov 14 (IPS) - It was 9:45 pm when 23-year-old Manira Chaudhury, a final-year Master's student in New Delhi, who was traveling home in a rickshaw, pressed a button on her smart phone that sent out emergency alerts to two of her closest friends.
War-ravaged South Sudan Struggles to Contain AIDS
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Nov 14 (IPS) - Dressed in a flowered African print kitenge and a blue head scarf, Sabur Samson, 27, sits pensively at the HIV centre at Maridi Civil Hospital in South Sudan's Western Equatoria state.
OPINION: Now Is the Time to Tackle Malnutrition and Its Massive Human Costs
- Inter Press Service
ROME/GENEVA, Nov 13 (IPS) - The scourge of malnutrition affects the most vulnerable in society, and it hurts most in the earliest stages of life. Today, more than 800 million people are chronically hungry, about 11 percent of the global population.
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