News headlines for “Human Population”, page 367
Civil Society Condemns Immunity for Sitting African Leaders Accused of Serious Crimes
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 27 (IPS) - Mary Wacu lived in the Rift Valley region for 10 years prior to the 2007/08 post-election violence that rocked Kenya after a disputed general election.
Nepal Landslide Leaves Women and Children Vulnerable
- Inter Press Service
DABI, Nepal, Aug 27 (IPS) - Living in a makeshift tarpaulin shelter, which barely protects her family from the torrential rainfall or scorching heat of this remote village in southern Nepal, 36-year-old Kamala Pari is under immense stress, worrying about her financial security and children's safety.
OPINION: Towards a Global Governance Information Clearing House
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN/ROME, Aug 26 (IPS) - Inter Press Service News Agency has braved severe political assaults and financial tempests since 1964, when Roberto Savio and Pablo Piacentini laid its foundation as a unique and challenging information and communication system.
How Midwives on Sierra Leone’s Almost Untouched Turtle Islands are Improving Women’s Health
- Inter Press Service
MATTRU JONG, Sierra Leone, Aug 26 (IPS) - Emmanuel is a male midwife.
At the age of 26, he lives and works on one of eight islands off the southwest peninsular of Sierra Leone, an hour by speedboat from Mattru Jong, the capital of Bonthe District.
OPINION: Boosting Resilience in the Caribbean Countries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 26 (IPS) - Having lived and worked for more than a decade in four Caribbean countries, I have witnessed firsthand how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are extremely vulnerable to challenges ranging from debt and unemployment to climate change and sea level rise.
Building Public Trust is a Key Factor in Fighting West Africa’s Worst Ebola Outbreak
- Inter Press Service
KANDOPLEU/ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Aug 26 (IPS) - The nurse carefully packs the body into a plastic bag and then leaves the isolation tent, rinsing his feet in a bucket of water that contains bleach. Then he carefully takes off his safety glasses, gloves and mask and burns them in a jerry can.
These Children Just Want to Go Back to School
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 26 (IPS) - Between government efforts to wipe out insurgents from Pakistan's northern, mountainous regions, and the Taliban's own campaign to exercise power over the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the real victims of this conflict are often invisible.
U.N. Conference Set to Bypass Climate Change Refugees
- Inter Press Service
Breakthroughs and Hurdles in Colombia’s Peace Talks
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Aug 25 (IPS) - Three major advances were made over the last week in the peace talks that have been moving forward in Cuba for nearly two years between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas, while the decades-old civil war rages on.
Bangladeshi Girls Seek Equal Opportunity
- Inter Press Service
RANGPUR, Bangladesh, Aug 25 (IPS) - Until five years ago, Shima Aktar, a student in Gajaghanta village in the Rangpur district of Bangladesh, about 370 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, was leading a normal life. But when her father decided that it was time for her to conform to purdah, a religious practice of female seclusion, things changed.
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