News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 332
U.N. Climate Talks Further Link Between Gender and Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 12 (IPS) - This week in Geneva, Switzerland, the U.N. climate negotiations have begun in what looks set to be a busy year. In order to reach an agreement in Paris by December, negotiators will have to climb a mountain of contentious issues which continue to overshadow the talks.
Women Pick Up the Slack as Fishing Declines on India’s Southern Coasts
- Inter Press Service
NAGAPATTINAM, India, Feb 12 (IPS) - Geeta Selvaraj and a few other women take turns to prepare meals with just one large gas cooker in a tiny shop.
U.N. Touts 2015 as Milestone Year for World Body
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) - The United Nations, in a sustained political hype, is touting 2015 as a likely breakthrough year for several key issues on its agenda - primarily development financing, climate change, sustainable development, disaster risk-reduction and nuclear non-proliferation.
Mass Rapes Reported in Darfur as Conflict Escalates
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) - More than 200 Darfurian women were reportedly raped by Sudanese troops in one brutal assault on a town in October 2014, with the conflict in war-torn Darfur escalating to new heights.
Youth Unemployment, Income Inequality Keep Rising
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 06 (IPS) - The world's youth unemployment rate may be "six or seven times" what the International Labor Organisation's (ILO) latest figures state, according to a global youth advocacy group.
Bangladesh Fighting Inequality at the Preschool Level
- Inter Press Service
JAMALPUR, Bangladesh, Feb 04 (IPS) - Shanta* is only four years old, but already she loves school. Every morning, her mother walks her to the small pre-primary facility in Mohonpur village, about 140 km away from Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, and leaves her in the care of a young female teacher, who oversees the day's activities: storytelling, drama, reciting poetry.
OPINION: The Plight of Women and Girls in Zambezi’s Floods
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 02 (IPS) - The flooding of the Zambezi River has had devastating consequences for three countries in Southern Africa. The three worst affected countries are Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Conflict-Related Displacement: A Huge Development Challenge for India
- Inter Press Service
KOKRAJHAR, India, Jan 29 (IPS) - The tarpaulin sheet, when stretched and tied to bamboo poles, is about the length and breadth of a large SUV. Yet, about 25 women and children have been sleeping beneath these makeshift shelters at several relief camps across Kokrajhar, a district in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.
OPINION: Russia's Friendship University, Educating the Developing World for 55 Years
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jan 28 (IPS) - People's Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), which celebrates its 55th anniversary on Feb. 5, is known worldwide as a major academic and research centre. During the last five decades, PFUR has educated 80,000 students from 145 countries.
Antiguan Shanty Dwellers Ask if Poverty Will Be the Death of Them
- Inter Press Service
GREEN BAY, Antigua, Jan 28 (IPS) - It was early on a Saturday morning and there was no sign of life in the community. The shacks erected on both sides of the old, narrow road that winds through the area are all surrounded by zinc sheets which rise so high, it's impossible to see what lies on the other side.
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