News headlines for “Human Population”, page 549
Haiti’s Earthquake Victims: 'Abandoned Like Stray Dogs'
- Inter Press Service
Eighty thousand tiny houses dot the countryside near this coastal city, located just west of the epicentre of the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake that killed some 200,000 and displaced over one million.
'Sustainable Development Must Start with People'
- Inter Press Service
When world leaders meet in Brazil next June for a U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, the third since the landmark 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the question lingering in the minds of many is: what really is 'sustainable development' in the context of a fast-changing world of growing poverty, hunger, pollution, political repression and social unrest?
CONGO: Many Indigenous Women Still Give Birth in the Forest
- Inter Press Service
Marguerite Kassa feared she would find herself alone in the small crowd of a dozen other pregnant women at the integrated health centre in Mossendjo, in the southwestern Republic of Congo. 'I am six months pregnant already, but I hesitated to come here before now, because there is so much contempt for us,' the thirty-year-old indigenous woman tells IPS. 'Yet I was warmly welcomed.'
Mexican Fisherwomen Organise Against Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Every night, Adlemi Marrufo goes out to catch bait crabs used to fish for octopus in this small seaside town and others along Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, as part of a women's cooperative that is working to adapt to and fight climate change.
PAKISTAN: Democracy Follows Drones
- Inter Press Service
Along with the devastating drone strikes the United States-led ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan is bringing changes to punitive laws imposed by British colonialism on Pakistan’s Pashtun areas more than a century ago.
Mega Cities Could Trigger Water Shortages and Social Unrest
- Inter Press Service
The rapid growth of urban population - described as one of the world’s major demographic trends - has triggered an explosion of 'mega cities' in Asia, Latin America and Africa, causing a breakdown in basic services, including water supplies and sanitation facilities.
OP-ED: Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables and Toxins Driving People from Homes
- Inter Press Service
People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising seas and increasingly devastating storms grab headlines, but expanding deserts, falling water tables, and toxic waste and radiation are also forcing people from their homes.
SOUTH SUDAN: Inter-Ethnic Clashes Become More Frequent and Deadly
- Inter Press Service
Thousands of women and children are being abducted and over 1,000 people have died this year as communities in oil-rich South Sudan war over a precious commodity — cattle.
PORTUGAL: Young Professionals Flee Crisis - to Former Colonies
- Inter Press Service
Thousands of young people from Portugal are joining an emigration flow that never trickled to a stop but is turning into an exodus now due to the severe economic crisis plaguing this southern European country. And the main destinations of those looking for a better future abroad are former colonies, especially Brazil.
THAILAND: Yingluck Will Need Luck and Pluck
- Inter Press Service
As she stepped into her role as an ingénue on the macho stage of Thai politics, the backers of Yingluck Shinawatra, the country’s first woman prime minister, had hoped she would enjoy a honeymoon period.
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