News headlines for “Human Population”, page 433
Tackle Malnutrition Now
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 06 (IPS) - Between 2010 and 2012, 868 million people worldwide were deemed hungry by a conservative definition. This figure represents only a small fraction of the world's population whose health and lives are blighted by malnutrition.
Malnutrition Still Killing Three Million Children Under Five
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - Kevin's Carter's disturbing picture of the 1993 famine in Sudan won him a Pulitzer Prize.
In Besieged Refugee Camp, Syrian Medics Struggle to Provide
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Jun 05 (IPS) - It was nine in the morning when the shell landed in front of nine-year-old Hella al-Abtah's house in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Hella survived the initial blast but was critically wounded in the head, and her father rushed her to the Palestine Hospital, blood pouring from the laceration.
Palestinian Child Labourers Face Grim Future
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Jun 04 (IPS) - Hazem Maher, 16, from Hebron in the southern West Bank, works a backbreaking 12-hour day in the fruit and vegetable market in the city of El Bireh, next to Ramallah. He earns just over 15 dollars a day as a porter.
Nowhere to Turn for China's Uyghurs
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 04 (IPS) - For years, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China's arid northwest has been the setting of clashes with the central government and ethnic violence between Muslim Uyghurs and Han Chinese.
Despite Peace Talks, Forced Displacement Still Climbing in Colombia
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Jun 04 (IPS) - Drugs and arms traffickers are muscling in on Colombia's Pacific coastal region, forcibly displacing local people, according to a new report by the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES).
Japan Seeks to Remake Asia-Africa Relationship
- Inter Press Service
YOKOHAMA, Japan, Jun 04 (IPS) - Acutely aware of China's strong presence in resource-rich Africa, Japan, the world's third largest economy, is beefing up its relations with the continent. Participants at a high-level donor conference hosted by Japan this week stressed the need for closer engagement, not through the traditional grants and assistance loans that have hitherto defined the relationship, but rather through trade and investment led by the Japanese private sector.
Good Health Lies Just Across the Border
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 03 (IPS) - Muzaffar Shah, a shopkeeper from Kabul, sits in a hospital waiting room, desperate for news. He has travelled nearly 300 km to get to the Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar, capital of northern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, where his wife is now in intensive care.
Poverty No Longer Explains School Dropout in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 03 (IPS) - Poverty no longer explains the high secondary school dropout rate in Argentina, one of the richest countries in Latin America.
Healing South Sudan’s Wounds
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Jun 03 (IPS) - Susana Apai Wani has lived as a widow for more than two decades since her husband, James Wani, was arrested in 1992 by a policeman who accused him of collaborating with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, which was a rebel political movement at the time.
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