News headlines for “Human Population”, page 396

  1. Europe's Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure

    - Inter Press Service

    ATHENS, Jan 08 (IPS) - The start of Greece's six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony Wednesday in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned and there was no talk about the raging controversy over the bloc's handling of the Greek debt crisis and the renewed concerns about the vitality of the Eurozone.

  2. Christmas Storm Underlines Caribbean's Vulnerability

    - Inter Press Service

    CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Jan 07 (IPS) - Guyanese President Donald Ramotar says the death and destruction caused by intense rainfall in three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries over the Christmas holidays is a sign that the region has no time to lose in fortifying its resiliance to climate change.

  3. Sawhoyamaxa Battle for Their Land in Paraguay

    - Inter Press Service

    ASUNCIÓN, Jan 07 (IPS) - The Sawhoyamaxa indigenous community in Paraguay have spent over 20 years fighting to get back their land, which they were pushed off by cattle ranchers.

  4. Breast Is Best, But Not in Swaziland

    - Inter Press Service

    MBABANE, Jan 07 (IPS) - Smiling as she breastfeeds her six-week-old baby boy, Lindiwe Dlamini, 38, is optimistic about his future.

  5. Anti-Poaching Operation Spread Terror in Tanzania

    - Inter Press Service

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    DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Jan 06 (IPS) - Ali Nyenge, a resident of Iputi ward in Tanzania's northern Ulanga District, woke up as anti-poaching security officers surrounded his home. He says they accused him of illegal hunting and in front of his 11-year-old son, made him take his clothes off, poured salt water on his body and whipped him with a cane.

  6. Best Wishes for a Less Destitute New Year

    - Inter Press Service

    BEIRUT, Jan 06 (IPS) - Over the past year more than 50,000 Palestinian refugees have fled violence, chaos and destitution in Syria to seek sanctuary in Lebanon. The vast majority have found themselves living in dire poverty, and trapped in chronically insecure existence.

  7. Women Farmers in Chile to Teach the Region Agroecology

    - Inter Press Service

    SANTIAGO, Jan 05 (IPS) - An organisation that brings together some 10,000 peasant and indigenous women from Chile is launching an agroecology institute for women campesinos, or small farmers, in South America.

  8. Women Farmers in Chile to Teach the Region Agroecology

    - Inter Press Service

    SANTIAGO, Jan 04 (IPS) - An organisation that brings together some 10,000 peasant and indigenous women from Chile is launching an agroecology institute for women campesinos, or small farmers, in South America.

  9. Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: “The Monster is Right on Top of Us”

    - Inter Press Service

    MALVINAS ARGENTINAS, Córdoba, Argentina, Jan 03 (IPS) - The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina's central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the week-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant.

  10. The Scramble for Kenya's Kibera Slum

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, Jan 03 (IPS) - Controversy continues to brew here over ownership of the land under Kibera slum, one of Africa's largest.

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