Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 390
Tahrir Square Finds a GrEEK Neighbour
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Mar 07 (IPS) - The group of buildings near Tahrir Square could be modern campus-style office space anywhere. It's hard to believe that just outside the heavy steel gates lies downtown Cairo, the noisy, polluted and now troubled heart of Egypt.
Women Still Walk Two Steps Behind in Arab World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 06 (IPS) - In much of the Arab world, women's participation in the labour force is the lowest in the world, according to the United Nations, while women in politics is a rare breed both in the Middle East and North Africa.
India Fights a Tougher TB
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 05 (IPS) - For years Joba Hemron, 50, prayed that her cough would go away. She was diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) in 2011. She was put on a Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS), provided free at a public health clinic in Bongaigaon district in Assam.
OP-ED: The Care Imperative
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - As the debate about a future global development agenda to succeed the Millennium Development Goals in 2015 gathers pace, there is broad agreement that gender equality and women's empowerment are crucial components.
After Sochi, the Hounding Game
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Mar 01 (IPS) - Fears are growing in Russia that the Kremlin is preparing a crackdown on rights activists following the end of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
An Equal Share of Wealth Equals Lasting Peace in CAR
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 28 (IPS) - While wrangling over Central African Republic's (CAR) wealth in natural resources played a role in the country's crisis, its future peace and stability still partly depends on a solution that factors in how to equitably distribute its national wealth.
Q&A: The Face of the Future is an Adolescent Girl
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 28 (IPS) - "The future is today aged 10 and it's an adolescent girl," Kate Gilmore, deputy executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said in an interview with IPS in Johannesburg.
Ghana’s Small Women’s Savings Groups Have Big Impact
- Inter Press Service
DENUGU, Ghana, Feb 28 (IPS) - Dunwaa Soayare, 45, a smallholder farmer, widow and mother of five had the sort of economic profile that meant she was denied access to credit from Ghana's mainstream banking institutions.
Women On The Move, And In Danger
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Feb 28 (IPS) - It was 8.45 pm, and a 22-year-old woman was looking for a cab to go home after a trip to a city mall in India's Hyderabad city. A cab arrived, and the unsuspecting computer engineer got in, little knowing she was stepping into a trap.
Burned, Bombed, Beaten – Education Under Attack Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 (IPS) - There was a time when images from war zones featured only battlefields and barracks. As warfare moved into the 20th century, pictures of embattled urban centres and rural guerilla outposts began to make the rounds.
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