News headlines for “Human Population”, page 447
Getting Past Aid to Develop
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Apr 05 (IPS) - With the level of Western aid to the world's poorest countries declining amid the global financial crisis, economists are calling for "innovative" means of development that range from proper taxation of multinationals to laws that ensure gender equality.
Women Take the Stage Against Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Apr 05 (IPS) - The Taliban may have placed a ban on theatre, but women in Pakistan's northern provinces won't allow the threat of the militants' reprisals to keep them off the stage.
Solar Energy and Briquettes Make Headway in Haiti
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Apr 04 (IPS) - While Jean Reniteau mulls over the idea of using solar panels to light his house, Frantz Fanfan is wondering how to expand production of biomass briquettes to replace the use of charcoal in the cooking stoves of most of the Haitian people, who lack electricity.
U.N. Greenlights Long-Awaited Arms Trade Treaty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 02 (IPS) - For many in the international community, the iconic sculpture outside the U.N. Visitors' Centre appears more prominent today, as the majority of member states tightened its knot by adopting the first ever Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
World Bank Aims to End Extreme Poverty by 2030
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 02 (IPS) - World Bank President Jim Kim has unveiled a series of new institutional goals aimed at ending extreme poverty by 2030 and focusing on the promotion of "shared prosperity" – increasing the incomes of the poorest 40 percent in each country while placing increased focus on dealing with climate change.
U.N. Goes Global to Set Post-2015 Economic Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 02 (IPS) - The United Nations apparently lacked the online resources of the fast-growing digital age when it created its highly-touted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2001, with a targeted deadline of 2015.
Europe’s Invisible Children
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Apr 02 (IPS) - Twenty-two-year-old Dario (not his real name) came to Belgium from Brazil in 2005. Just a teenager at the time, he told IPS he "came to escape the economic, social and political conditions in Brazil and to learn another language".
Tegucigalpa Learns to Live with Climate Challenges
- Inter Press Service
TEGUCIGALPA, Apr 01 (IPS) - In slums lining several hillsides in the Honduran capital, mitigation works are under way to protect the neighbourhoods from flooding and landslides, which completely obliterated several areas when Hurricane Mitch hit the country fifteen years ago.
Refugees of Libyan War Protest at World Social Forum
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Mar 31 (IPS) - "We need a solution. The U.N. has created the problem, and they should do their work and fix it," says Bright, a young Nigerian stuck in the Choucha refugee camp in Tunisia, a few kilometres from the Libyan border.
Acid Victims Have a Lot to Undo
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 31 (IPS) - Her face covered with a maroon scarf and with large old -fashioned goggles hiding her eyes, Sonali Mukherjee lived one of the most cherished moments of her life when she earned a jackpot on a show hosted by Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan.
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