Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 370
From Tigers to Barbers: Tales of Sri Lanka’s Ex-Combatants
- Inter Press Service
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Jul 14 (IPS) - People are willing to wait a long time for a few minutes in the hands of Aloysius Patrickeil, a 32-year-old barber who is part-owner of a small shop close to the northern town of Kilinochchi, 320 km from Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo.
Outdated Approaches Fuelling TB in Russia, Say NGOs
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Jul 14 (IPS) - When Veronika Sintsova was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2009, she spent six months in hospital before being discharged and allowed to continue treatment as an outpatient.
Time to “Drop the Knife” for FMG in The Gambia
- Inter Press Service
BANJUL, Jul 13 (IPS) - Women's rights activists in the Gambia are insisting that more than 30 years of campaigning to raise awareness should be sufficient to move the government to outlaw female genital mutilation (FMG).
Future of Rwanda’s Orphans Still Uncertain
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Jul 11 (IPS) - Every day, 14-year-old Deborah wakes up in an orphanage, goes to school, and comes home to an orphanage. It does not matter when or for how long she leaves the orphanage, she always knows she'll be back.
Pakistan: Where Mothers Are Also Children
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, Jul 11 (IPS) - If 22-year-old Rashda Naureen could go back six years in time, she would never have agreed to get married at the tender age of 16.
Reproductive Rights Take Centre Stage at U.N. Special Session
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 10 (IPS) - As the United Nations continues negotiations on a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for its post-2015 development agenda, population experts are hoping reproductive health will be given significant recognition in the final line-up of the goals later this year.
Young Latin Americans Face Spiral of Unemployment, Poverty
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Jul 10 (IPS) - In Latin America, young people are the main link in the chain of poverty leading from one generation to the next. Civil society groups, academics and young people themselves say it is imperative to strengthen the connection between education today and decent employment tomorrow.
OPINION: Unleashing African Young People’s Potential
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jul 10 (IPS) - An African proverb says "a child that we refuse to build today will end up selling the house that we may build tomorrow."
El Niño Triggers Drought, Food Crisis in Nicaragua
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, Jul 10 (IPS) - The spectre of famine is haunting Nicaragua. The second poorest country in Latin America, and one of the 10 most vulnerable to climate change in the world, is facing a meteorological phenomenon that threatens its food security.
Putting Population Management in Pacific Women’s Hands
- Inter Press Service
PORT VILA, Jul 10 (IPS) - Populations of many Melanesian countries in the southwest Pacific Islands region are expected to double in a generation, threatening regional and national efforts to improve low economic and human development indicators.
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