Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 371
Zimbabwean Girls Venture into Technological Innovation
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jul 10 (IPS) - For 22-year-old Moselyn Muchena, a final year computer science student at the University of Zimbabwe, it seemed obvious to create a mobile application offering easy access to services in the local catering industry, largely because of the huge number of female entrepreneurs in that sector.
U.S. Groups Reject Anti-Gay Discrimination Bill over Religious Exemption
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 09 (IPS) - Civil rights groups across the United States have withdrawn their support from a major legislative proposal that would outlaw workplace discrimination against sexual minorities, warning that recent legal developments could exempt companies on religious grounds.
OPINION: Obama’s Quick Fix Won’t Solve the Regional Refugee Crisis
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 09 (IPS) - In recent months, an unprecedented surge of refugee women and children has been traveling alone to the United States to seek protection at our southern border.
In Bangladesh, a Steady Pursuit of Freedom
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 09 (IPS) - Visiting Bangladesh has been a lifelong dream of mine, but all that I had heard about a people who love freedom so much that they have withstood great armies, famine and intractable poverty could not prepare me for what I've seen in the last three days.
World's Poorest Nations Seek Presence in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 08 (IPS) - The 48 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the world's poor, want to be an integral part of the U.N.'s post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion.
Conservatives and Nationalists At Centre Stage in Poland
- Inter Press Service
WAESAW, Jul 08 (IPS) - A mix of conservative Catholicism and nationalism has become the predominant view in Polish public debate, with some worrying effects.
Amid Scepticism, U.N. Trumpets Successes in Cutting Poverty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 07 (IPS) - With 17 months before the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their targets by the December 2015 deadline, the United Nations is trumpeting its limited successes - but with guarded optimism.
India's Unholy Mess
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jul 07 (IPS) - One of the first things that Narendra Damodardas Modi did after being anointed as the Indian prime minister on May 26 was to set up an exclusive ministry (Ganga Rejuvenation) under Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti to clean up the country's national river, the Ganges.
At the Crucial Nexus of Water and Energy
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul 07 (IPS) - Global institutions are still in the learning phase when it comes to successfully managing water and energy in an integrated manner as part of the quest for sustainable development.
OPINION: Fighting Killer Diseases Is Essential in the Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 07 (IPS) - Undeniably, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) helped lift specific health concerns onto the global agenda.
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