News headlines for “Human Population”, page 349
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.
OPINION: Climate Justice Is the Only Way to Solve Our Climate Crisis
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Dic 01 (IPS) - In November, the world's top climate scientists issued their latest warning that the climate crisis is rapidly worsening on a number of fronts, and that we must stop our climate-polluting way of producing energy if we are to stand a chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
HIV Prevention is Failing Young South African Women
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Dic 01 (IPS) - When she found out that she had human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Thabisile Mkhize (not her real name) was scared.
Illegal Logging Wreaking Havoc on Impoverished Rural Communities
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Dic 01 (IPS) - Rampant unsustainable logging in the southwest Pacific Island states of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, where the majority of land is covered in tropical rainforest, is worsening hardship, human insecurity and conflict in rural communities.
Only a Few Drops of Water at the Lima Climate Summit
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Nov 29 (IPS) - Although it is one of the victims of global warming, water will not be given a place of importance at the COP20 climate change conference to be held Dec. 1-12 in Lima, Peru.
OPINION: People with Disabilities Must Be Counted in the Fight Against HIV
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Nov 28 (IPS) - Jane is a young Zambian mother with a physical disability in Lusaka, who uses a wheelchair to get around. She does not let clinics without ramps or without wheelchair accessible toilets and equipment stop her from claiming her right to health care, including HIV prevention services.
Elections Offer Little Solace to Sri Lanka’s Poor
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Nov 28 (IPS) - Priyantha Wakvitta is used to seeing his adopted city, Colombo, transform into a landscape of bright sparkling lights and window dressing towards the end of the year.
Democratising the Fight against Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 27 (IPS) - There is a new dimension to the issue of malnutrition – governments, civil society and the private sector have started to come together around a common nutrition agenda.
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