News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 290
A Latin American Humanitarian Emergency Invisible to the World
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, May 19 (IPS) - "This is a humanitarian crisis," said Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, referring to the generalised violence in Mexico and in Honduras and other countries of Central America, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and is a product of transnational crime, but is invisible to the international community.
Humanitarian Situation in Yemen Seriously Deteriorating
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 18 (IPS) - The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is very seriously deteriorating, said Office of the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs' (OCHA) Operations Director John Ging.
A Refugee Crisis with No End in Sight
- Inter Press Service
GAZA, Palestine, May 18 (IPS) - "We don't want charity, we want a long-term solution."
Industrial-Level Aid Logistics in Colombia’s Decades-Long Humanitarian Disaster
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, May 16 (IPS) - "If you're going to talk about Colombia and the peace process, do it somewhere else," was heard at a regional preparatory meeting for the World Humanitarian Summit, according to Ramón Rodríguez, with the Colombian government's Unit for Attention and Integral Reparation for Victims (UARIV).
OPINION: Fear Is not a Good Counsellor
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 16 (IPS) - A new spectre is haunting the world. It is not the spectre of communism, as Marx's Manifesto famously proclaimed. It is the spectre of fear, which has increasingly become the rationale behind politics. And, as the old proverb says, fear is not a good counselor.
Bees and Silkworms Spin Gold for Ethiopia’s Rural Youth
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, May 16 (IPS) - Beekeeping and silkworm farming have long been critical cogs of Ethiopian life, providing food, jobs and much needed income.
Justice for Berta Caceres Incomplete Without Land Rights: UN Rapporteur
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - The murder of Honduran Indigenous woman Berta Caceres is only too familiar to Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Progress of The World’s Least Developed Countries to be Reviewed
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - The United Nations will undertake a major review of progress made in the world's 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) later this month.
Raising Walls Against the Sea
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 12 (IPS) - Facing the bleak prospect of millions of its citizens being displaced in coming years due to sea level rise caused by climate change, Bangladesh is building up existing coastal embankments in a bid to protect coastal lands and people.
Fund Launched to Help Mountain People Face Climate Change Threat
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (IPS) - Jack Norton was on a glacier in northern India. A seemingly impenetrable fortress of sweeping ridges and towering walls of granite, capped by hanging glaciers. It seemed, he said, that nothing could touch it, nothing could beat it down.
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