Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 349
Child Poverty in Spain Seen Through the Eyes of Encarni
- Inter Press Service
MÃLAGA, Spain, Nov 01 (IPS) - "I would like to have a big house, and I wish my family didn't have to go out and ask for food or clothes," Encarni, who just turned 12, tells IPS in the small apartment she shares with five other family members in a poor neighbourhood in the southern Spanish city of Málaga.
Another Women's Treaty? Implement Existing One, Say NGOs
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) - Can violence against women be prevented or eliminated with a new international treaty signed and ratified by the 193 member states of the United Nations?
Iraqi Christians Seek Shelter in Jordan after IS Threats
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Oct 31 (IPS) - Watching videos and pictures on social media of the advance of the Islamic State (IS) inside Syria made it all seem far from reality to Iraqi Marvin Nafee.
Mozambique Tackles its Twin Burden of Cervical Cancer and HIV
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Oct 31 (IPS) - The woman on bed 27 in Maputo Central Hospital's oncology ward has no idea how lucky she is. In January, when abdominal pains wracked her, a pharmacist suggested pain killers. For months, "the pain would go and return," she told IPS.
Canada Accused of Failing to Prevent Overseas Mining Abuses
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (IPS) - The Canadian government is failing either to investigate or to hold the country's massive extractives sector accountable for rights abuses committed in Latin American countries, according to petitioners who testified here Tuesday before an international tribunal.
Better Water Management Needed to Eradicate Poverty
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Oct 30 (IPS) - It demands repetition: water is a precondition for all life. It keeps us alive – literally – while being a prerequisite for or integral part of most of our daily activities. Think hospitals without water, think farms, energy producers, industries, schools and homes without our most needed resource. All sectors, without exception, are dependent on water.
Crisis Fuelled Resurgence of Horse-Drawn Carriages in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
, Oct 30 (IPS) - Up and down the streets of towns and cities in Cuba go horse-drawn carriages with black leather tops and large back wheels, alongside more simple carts, operating as public transportation.
Decline Before Fall of Berlin Wall
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (IPS) - As the world marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the famous Berlin Wall leading to the reunification of the country and the end of the cold war, a little noted event occurred nearly two decades before the fall that ushered in a trend having profound consequences for the future of Germany as well as for Europe: German births declined below deaths.
Bangladeshi ‘Char Dwellers’ in Search of Higher Ground
- Inter Press Service
KURIGRAM, Bangladesh, Oct 29 (IPS) - Jahanara Begum, a 35-year-old housewife, is surrounded by thatched-roof homes, all of which are partially submerged by floodwater.
OPINION: Keeping All Girls in School is One Way to Curb Child Marriage in Tanzania
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Oct 29 (IPS) - "You cannot continue with your education. You have to get married because this man has already paid dowry for you," Matilda H's father told her. Matilda, from Tanzania, was 14 and had just passed her primary school exams and had been admitted to secondary school. She pleaded with her father to allow her to continue her education, but he refused.
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