Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 365
Aleppo Struggles to Provide for Basic Needs as Regime Closes In
- Inter Press Service
ALEPPO, Syria, Aug 11 (IPS) - The single, heavily damaged supply road remaining into the rebel-held, eastern area of the city is acutely exposed to enemy fire.
Nepal’s Poor Live in the Shadow of Natural Disasters
- Inter Press Service
BANKE, Nepal, Aug 11 (IPS) - Barely 100 km north of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, the settlement of Jure, which forms part of the village of Mankha, has become a tragic example of how the country's poorest rural communities are the first and worst victims of natural disasters.
Stigma Still a Major Roadblock for AIDS Fight in Africa
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 09 (IPS) - Though West Africa's massive Ebola outbreak may be dominating the spotlight within the global health community, HIV/AIDS remains an enormous issue for Africa as a whole - a sentiment that Washington officials made clear this week in their discussions of legislative and technological setbacks plaguing progress in fighting the epidemic.
Zimbabwean Women Breathe New Life into Private Transport Sector
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Aug 08 (IPS) - Mavis Gotora from Mabvuku high-density suburb, in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, walks up and down, as she persuades one passer-by after another to board the private taxi cab she drives.
Going Back to the Farm in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Aug 07 (IPS) - Scattered houses amidst small fields of vegetables and other crops line the road to the La China farm on the outskirts of the Cuban capital. This is where Hortensia Martínez works – a mechanical engineer who has been called crazy by many for deciding to become a small farmer.
Tech Entrepreneur Encourages Rwanda’s Young Women to Venture into ICT
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Aug 07 (IPS) - Akaliza Keza Gara is only 27, but she's achieved much for women in Rwanda's technology sector in just a short space of time.
Atom Bomb Anniversary Spotlights Persistent Nuclear Threat
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Aug 07 (IPS) - It has been 69 years, but the memory is fresh in the minds of 190,000 survivors and their descendants. It has been 69 years but a formal apology has yet to be issued. It has been 69 years – and the likelihood of it happening all over again is still a frightening reality.
OPINION: For Nigerian Girls, Education Is the Key That Opens Doors to Progress
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 06 (IPS) - I grew up in Nigeria, in a culture where bearing a son validates a woman and her family, and a male innately holds the superior position in society over a female. At 11 years of age, I escorted my mother to deliver her fifth baby girl, my youngest sister, and watched our mom die in the hands of an unfit doctor.
Child Malnutrition Doesn’t Take Vacation in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Aug 06 (IPS) - It's two in the afternoon, and María stirs tomato sauce into a huge pot of pasta. School is out for the summer in Spain, but the lunchroom in this public school in the southern city of Málaga is still open, serving meals to more than 100 children from poor families.
Asia Looks to Innovation to Achieve Sustainability
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Aug 06 (IPS) - Innovation in the fields of renewable energy, food production, water conservation, education and health will be crucial for the developing economies of Asia to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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