News headlines for “Human Population”, page 414
Mayors Leading an Urban Revolution
- Inter Press Service
NANTES, France, Oct 05 (IPS) - With presidents and prime ministers failing to take meaningful action to avert a planetary-scale climate crisis, the mayors of cities and towns are increasingly stepping up to enact changes at the local level.
Some Rice, Served With Rainwater
- Inter Press Service
KOH KONG PROVINCE, Cambodia, Oct 05 (IPS) - The quiet Cambodian village of Chouk, set in the beautiful forests of the Cardamom Mountains near the Thai border, seems peaceful. But things are difficult in this largely empty village of simple wooden houses, populated mainly by children and the elderly.
Homeless Again
- Inter Press Service
MÁLAGA, Spain, Oct 04 (IPS) - A police cordon kept everyone out of the Buenaventura "corrala" on Thursday after the police evicted 13 families living in the occupied building in the centre of this southern Spanish city early in the morning.
Africa's Growth Story Brightens
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 04 (IPS) - Not far from the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa, a young woman named Bosena, 25, sits on the side of a busy road with a baby in her arms.
Egyptian Revolution Brings an IVF Rush
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 03 (IPS) - The young couple inspecting Dr Bassem Elhelw's Cairo Fertility Clinic knew what they wanted from him: a baby boy. They also knew they wanted the child by in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
The Dark Side of International Migration
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 02 (IPS) - The number of international migrants continues its inexorable climb even as reports of slave-like conditions continue to proliferate.
For the Disabled, Progress Unearths More Questions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 02 (IPS) - When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a recent high-level meeting on disability and development that promised a place for the issue in the post-2015 agenda, he cited three examples of incapacity.
Less Hunger, But Not Good Enough
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 02 (IPS) - Every year, we take a snapshot of world progress in the fight against chronic hunger. This year, the picture is looking better, but it's still not good enough.
Ugandan Women Put On Their Boxing Gloves
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA?, Oct 02 (IPS) - Helen Baleke took up boxing at 16, after she was attacked by a man in Kampala's Katanga slum. But the beating turned her into what she is today – one of only several female Ugandan amateur boxers.
Relief Brings Its Own Disasters
- Inter Press Service
DEHRADUN, India, Oct 02 (IPS) - In Uttarakhand, the small Indian state in the Himalayan foothills that was a victim of flash floods that killed at least a thousand people in June this year and uprooted thousands of families, the story is told of a child who went every day to the helipad, believing his father will return when, in fact, the father died in the floods.
Powered by
