News headlines for “Human Population”, page 467
Q&A: "Latin America Could Eradicate Hunger by 2025”
- Inter Press Service
VALPARAÍSO, Chile, Nov 26 (IPS) - The hunger suffered by 49 million people in Latin America could be eradicated by 2025, according to Spanish agricultural engineer Ricardo Rapallo.
Older, Wiser and Living with HIV/AIDS
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, Georgia, Nov 26 (IPS) - When HIV/AIDS first emerged in the 1980s, the stereotypical image of a person living with the disease in the United States was a young or middle-aged white homosexual male.
Building More Democratic Families in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Nov 26 (IPS) - A wide-ranging reform of Argentina's civil code is looking to replace traditional concepts of parental authority and control with one of parental responsibility, while expressly prohibiting corporal punishment for children and adolescents.
Coastal Erosion Reaches Alarming Levels in Vietnam
- Inter Press Service
AN BIEN, Vietnam, Nov 25 (IPS) - For the last decade, many families in this southwestern Vietnamese province have been uprooted at least once every two years – but this is not due to economic or political upheaval.
Opposition to U.S. Bases Reaches Turning Point
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Nov 25 (IPS) - Okinawa, the largest of a group of 60 sub-tropical islands forming Japan's southernmost prefecture, has an equable climate and preferential treatment for United States servicemen under the Mutual Cooperation Security Treaty between the U.S. and Japan.
Q&A: Honouring the Silent Courage of Afghan Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 (IPS) - Violence against women is internationally recognised as a threat to democracy, a burden on national economies, and a serious human rights violation.
War Tourism Skips Reality
- Inter Press Service
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka, Nov 24 (IPS) - The tour guide's voice echoes around the dark, musty room, three stories underground. Fifty visitors – among them mothers holding infants, youths snapping pictures on mobile phones and grandparents leaning against the walls – are crammed into the narrow stairwell that leads down into the chamber, listening attentively to his every word.
Security Council Vow on Women Lives Mostly on Paper
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 23 (IPS) - When the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) adopted a landmark resolution numbered 1325 back in 2000, it was supposed to integrate gender into its core mandate: the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security.
Mental Health, Another Victim of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Nov 23 (IPS) - "The city looked as if it had been bombed. On the way to my office, I passed people who had the same shocked look on their faces as I did. We would look at each other, and even though we were strangers, we'd ask ‘How did things go for you? Did anything happen to your house?' It was a kind of warm solidarity that did me a lot of good."
Nepal Unprepared for Imminent Earthquakes
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nov 23 (IPS) - Nepal now ranks 11th on a list of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, yet it remains one of the least disaster-prepared nations globally.
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