News headlines for “Human Population”, page 352
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.
How a Small Tribe Turned Tragedy into Opportunity
- Inter Press Service
PICHAVARAM, India, Nov 13 (IPS) - When the Asian tsunami washed over several Indian Ocean Rim countries on Boxing Day 2004, it left a trail of destruction in its wake, including a death toll that touched 230,000.
Legal Vacuum Fuels Conflicts Over Water in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
TACUBA, El Salvador, Nov 13 (IPS) - Rural communities and social organisations in El Salvador agree that the lack of specific laws is one of the main hurdles to resolving disputes over water in the country.
Braving Dust storms, Women Plant Seeds of Hope
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) - In the world's largest refugee complex – the sprawling Dadaab settlement in Kenya's North Eastern Province – women listen attentively during a business management workshop held at a hospital in one of its newest camps, Ifo 2.
Filipinos Take to the Streets One Year After Typhoon Haiyan
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Nov 10 (IPS) - People covered their bodies with mud to protest against government ineptitude and abandonment; others lighted paper lanterns and candles and released white doves and balloons to remember the dead, offer thanks and pray for more strength to move on; while many trooped to a vast grave site with white crosses to lay flowers for those who died, and to cry one more time.
Trapped Populations – Hostages of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Nov 10 (IPS) - Climate change is projected by many scientists to bring with it a range of calamities – from widespread floods, to prolonged heatwaves and slowly but relentlessly rising seas – taking the heaviest toll on those already most vulnerable.
Why Our Food Systems Need to Be More Nutrition-Smart
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 08 (IPS) - "We are especially distressed by the high prevalence and increasing numbers of malnourished children under five years of age in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. Moreover, more than 2000 million people, mostly women and children, are deficient in one or more micronutrients..."
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