News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 349
Afghan “Torn” Women Get Another Chance
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Sep 02 (IPS) - "The smell of faeces and urine isolates them completely. Their husbands abandon them and they become stigmatised forever" – Dr Pashtoon Kohistani barely needs two lines to sum up the drama of those women affected by obstetric fistula.
OPINION: Africans’ Land Rights at Risk as New Agricultural Trend Sweeps Continent
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 01 (IPS) - Agriculture in Africa is in urgent need of investment. Nearly 550 million people there are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, while half of the total population on the continent live in rural areas.
New Technology Boosts Fisherfolk Security
- Inter Press Service
NAGAPATTINAM, India, Aug 31 (IPS) - As the United Nations gears up to launch its newest set of poverty-reduction targets to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015, the words ‘sustainable development' have been on the lips of policymakers the world over.
The Age of Survival Migration
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Aug 29 (IPS) - "Survival migration" is not a reality show, but an accurate description of human mobility fuelled by desperation and fear. How despairing are these migrant contingents? Look at the figures of Central American children travelling alone, which are growing.
IPS at 50, Leads That Don't Bleed
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (IPS) - Tarzie Vittachi, a renowned Sri Lankan newspaper editor and one-time deputy executive director of the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, once recounted the oft-quoted story of an African diplomat who sought his help to get coverage in the U.S. media for his prime minister's address to the General Assembly.
South Sudan’s Hip Hop Artists call for Peace and Reconciliation Through the Unhip Practice of Farming
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Aug 28 (IPS) - "What is the benefit when children are crying and people are dying due to hunger? There is no need to cry when you have the potential to dig," sings Juba-based dancehall reggae group, the Jay Family, in their latest single "Stakal Shedit," which means "Work Hard" in Arabic.
Civil Society Condemns Immunity for Sitting African Leaders Accused of Serious Crimes
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 27 (IPS) - Mary Wacu lived in the Rift Valley region for 10 years prior to the 2007/08 post-election violence that rocked Kenya after a disputed general election.
Nepal Landslide Leaves Women and Children Vulnerable
- Inter Press Service
DABI, Nepal, Aug 27 (IPS) - Living in a makeshift tarpaulin shelter, which barely protects her family from the torrential rainfall or scorching heat of this remote village in southern Nepal, 36-year-old Kamala Pari is under immense stress, worrying about her financial security and children's safety.
World Bank Urged to Rethink Reforms to Business-Friendliness Report
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (IPS) - Civil society groups from several continents are stepping up a campaign urging the World Bank to strengthen a series of changes currently being made to a major annual report on countries' business-friendliness.
How Midwives on Sierra Leone’s Almost Untouched Turtle Islands are Improving Women’s Health
- Inter Press Service
MATTRU JONG, Sierra Leone, Aug 26 (IPS) - Emmanuel is a male midwife.
At the age of 26, he lives and works on one of eight islands off the southwest peninsular of Sierra Leone, an hour by speedboat from Mattru Jong, the capital of Bonthe District.
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