News headlines for “Human Population”, page 431
No Quick Fixes to Sorcery-Related Violence
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jun 15 (IPS) - Following worldwide outrage over a spate of brutal sorcery-related murders in Papua New Guinea, the government has rolled out a new hard-line approach to spiralling crime in this southwest Pacific island state.
Sowing a Healthier Future
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 15 (IPS) - "If there was enough political will to defeat hunger, we would defeat it right now - immediately," says Enrique Yeves, chief of corporate communications at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Former War Zone Craves Democracy
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jun 14 (IPS) - For the first time since Sri Lanka's 30-year-long civil conflict drew to a bloody finish in May 2009, casting an eerie hush over the Northern Province that had grown accustomed to the sounds of war, there is a buzz in the air generated by the prospect of provincial elections that hold the promise of radical change.
Is the 2030 Goal for Hunger Eradication Realistic?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 (IPS) - With less than three years before a 2015 deadline, the developing world is largely expected to miss one of the U.N.'s key Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger.
OP-ED: In South Sudan, Ending Child Marriage Will Require a Comprehensive Approach
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 13 (IPS) - Akech B. loved to study and dreamed of becoming a nurse. But when she was 14, her uncle who was raising her forced her to leave school to marry a man Akech described as old and gray-haired. The man paid 75 cows as dowry for Akech. He was already married to another woman with whom he had several children.
Putting Uganda’s Working Kids Back in School
- Inter Press Service
, Jun 13 (IPS) - Children around the world may complain about attending school and doing their homework, but not 14-year-old Raya*. For two years she was forced by her illiterate parents to spend every day, rain or shine, selling sugar cane from the family garden to customers on the streets of Entebbe, about 35 km outside the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
‘Happy Prostitutes’ AIDS Campaign Sparks Debate
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 12 (IPS) - Happiness, the subject of endless philosophical discussions, has now become the focus of controversy in an HIV/AIDS prevention campaign aimed at prostitutes in Brazil. The campaign chief has been booted out and a further question has been raised: What are the limits of popular participation in the definition of public policies?
Scales Tip Towards Women in Jewish Religious Rights Struggle
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Jun 12 (IPS) - The struggle for gender equality and Jewish pluralism took a highly symbolic turn on Sunday at the Western Wall, Judaism's most revered site and emblem of unity, as a group of women known as "Women of the Wall" prayed legally and in a way they saw fit.
Q&A: U.N. Looks to High Seas to Alleviate Food Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 11 (IPS) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is convinced there is sufficient global capacity to produce enough food to adequately feed the world's seven billion people.
OP-ED: Are We at the Tipping Point for Ending Hunger and Malnutrition?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 11 (IPS) - Author Malcolm Gladwell draws on the science of epidemiology in his book "The Tipping Point" to explain how ideas spread through a population, in the same way as an infectious disease can proceed from a few cases to a full-blown pandemic.
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