Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 359
LGBT Visibility in Africa Also Brings Backlash
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 09 (IPS) - Eighteen-year-old Gift Makau enjoyed playing and refereeing football games in her neighbourhood in the North West Province of South Africa. She had come out to her parents as a lesbian and had never been heckled by her community, according to her cousin.
U.S. Military Joins Ebola Response in West Africa
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 08 (IPS) - The U.S. military over the weekend formally began to support the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Mexico’s Cocopah People Refuse to Disappear
- Inter Press Service
EL MAYOR, Mexico, Sep 08 (IPS) - In their language, Cocopah means "river people". For over 500 years the members of this Amerindian group have lived along the lower Colorado River and delta in the Mexican states of Baja California and Sonora and the U.S. state of Arizona.
New Anti-Discrimination Law Could Worsen Situation for Georgia’s LGBT Community
- Inter Press Service
TBILISI, Sep 08 (IPS) - Georgia's LGBT community is sceptical that recently-introduced anti-discrimination legislation hailed by some rights groups as a bold step forward for the former Soviet state will improve their lives any time soon.
War Over but Not Gaza’s Housing Crisis
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Sep 08 (IPS) - "When the shelling started, I gathered up my family and headed for what I though was a safe place, like a school, but then that became overcrowded and lacked sanitation, so we ended up in the grounds of the hospital."
Latin America’s Anti-drug Policies Feed on the Poor
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Sep 06 (IPS) - Poor young men, slumdwellers and single mothers are hurt the most by anti-drug policies in Latin America, according to representatives of governments, social organisations and multilateral bodies meeting at the Fifth Latin American Conference on Drug Policies.
Human Rights and Gender Equality Vague in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Sep 04 (IPS) - With the United Nations' post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion, civil society actors in Europe are calling for a firmer stance on human rights and gender equality, including control of assets by women.
Women – the Pillar of the Social Struggle in Chile’s Patagonia Region
- Inter Press Service
COYHAIQUE, Chile, Sep 04 (IPS) - In few places in Chile are women the pillars of community, grassroots rural and environmental movements as they are in the southern wilderness region of Patagonia. It is a social role that history forced them to assume in this remote part of the country.
No Easy Choices for Syrians with Small Children
- Inter Press Service
GAZIANTEP, Turkey, Sep 04 (IPS) - The woman who walked into the Islamic Front (IF) media office near the Turkish border was on the verge of fainting under the hot Syrian sun, but all she cared about was her infant son.
Indigenous Peoples Seek Presence in Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 04 (IPS) - The world's 370 million indigenous people, who say they were marginalised in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), want to play a key role in the U.N.'s post-2015 development agenda, which will be finalised next year.
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