News headlines for “Human Population”, page 432
Indian Women Talk About Sex – in Cyberspace
- Inter Press Service
KOLKATA, India, Jun 11 (IPS) - When 30-year-old Rita Datta (not her real name) decided on a whim to take a computer literacy course, she fell through the metaphoric looking glass into a virtual reality where the most taboo subject in India was transformed into the most simple and natural topic of conversation: sex.
The Girl Who Couldn’t Herd Goats Now Saves Lives
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 11 (IPS) - When she was nine years old, Jane Meriwas, a Samburu from the Kipsing Plains in Kenya's Rift Valley region, was considered of no use by her father. After all, nine of his goats had been eaten by hyenas under her watch.
Q&A: “The U.N. Is Too Slow to Respond to Crisis”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 (IPS) - As the situation in Myanmar deteriorates, thousands of Rohingyas have fled the country in search of a safe haven.
Q&A: Women Hardest Hit by Growing New Austerity Measures
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 (IPS) - The widespread financial crisis in Europe, and its negative fallout in the developing world, has triggered severe austerity measures worldwide.
BOOKS: The Brothel Next Door
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 08 (IPS) - The underground sex trade is closer to our everyday world than we may think.
The Future of the Pacific Ocean Hangs in the Balance
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jun 08 (IPS) - The immense scale of the Pacific Ocean at 165 million square kilometres inspires awe and fascination, but for those who inhabit the 22 Pacific island countries and territories, it is the very source of life. Without it, livelihoods and economies would collapse, hunger and ill-health would become endemic and human survival would be threatened.
Sierra Leone’s Child Trafficking to Blame for Street Kids
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Jun 07 (IPS) - On a street corner in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital city, 12-year-old Kaita sits with a friend on a peeling steel railing watching the headlights of motorbikes cruising through the otherwise silent streets. It is after midnight, and motionless human forms lie curled up in doorways or stretched out on pavements nearby. For Kaita, these streets are home, and have been for almost six years.
International Community Urged to Declare “War on Food Waste”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 06 (IPS) - A quarter of all food calories grown for human consumption is being lost or wasted, either purposefully or otherwise, according to new estimates.
Battle Against Hunger Lost Without Gender Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - When the United Nations launched its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2001, two of its primary objectives were to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 and promote gender empowerment worldwide.
Gezi Park Highlights Years of Destructive Urban Development
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Jun 06 (IPS) - Few imagined that the symbolic act of standing in front of bulldozers in Istanbul's Gezi Park in an effort to block a development project near the city's central square would have caused the reaction it did.
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