News headlines in November 2016, page 6
Climate Change, A Goat Farmer’s Gain
- Inter Press Service
KWAZULU NATAL PROVINCE, South Africa, Nov 15 (IPS) - Bongekile Ndimande's family lost more 30 head of cattle to a ravaging drought last season, but a herd of goats survived and is now her bank on four legs.
Understanding Unauthorized Migration
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Nov 15 (IPS) - Growing numbers of men, women and even children in every major region of the world are joining international streams of unauthorized migration. This global movement of humanity's desperate is taking place despite walls, fences, barriers, guards, patrol ships, warnings and nativist political rhetoric. Governments of origin, transit and destination countries are struggling on how best to manage unauthorized migration flows.
Somali Refugees "Coerced" Out of Kenya: Amnesty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14 (IPS) - The Kenyan government is driving many of its 300,000 refugees back to war-torn Somalia, said Amnesty International in a new report.
Actions Needed Urgently to Tackle Air Pollution - Part 2
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Nov 14 (IPS) - As evidence mounts on the threats posed by air pollution to both human health and the environment, action must be urgently taken to address this problem.
Reflections on Trump Election
- Inter Press Service
CUZCO, Peru, Nov 14 (IPS) - From the city of Cuzco, where the Inca culture was subjugated by the Spanish conqueror, I am watching how the world inexorably leads to a different measure of history. And given the impossibility of drafting a complete analysis, these are some of my scattered observations.
Adaptation Funding a Must for Africa
- Inter Press Service
MARRAKECH, Nov 13 (IPS) - The Paris Agreement hammered out at the summit on climate change in the French capital last year committed all parties to low-carbon and climate-resilient economies. The big question at the follow-up meeting here in Marrakech is how that deal will be implemented, especially for the developing nations of Africa.
Opposition to Oil Pipeline in U.S. Serves as Example for Indigenous Struggles in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Nov 11 (IPS) - Canadian activist Clayton Thomas-Muller crossed the border between his country and the United States to join the Native American movement against the construction of an oil pipeline, which has become a model to follow in struggles by indigenous people against megaprojects, that share many common elements.
Air Pollution Emerges as a Top Killer Globally - Part 1
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Nov 11 (IPS) - New research is showing that air pollution is a powerful if silent killer, causing 6.5 million worldwide deaths as well as being the major cause of climate change.
Trump - The Symptom
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - The electoral victory of U.S. Republican Donald Trump -- many have said -- is an alarming signal that heralds new, difficult times. Maybe. Anyway, this victory could –and should-be seen as a symptom not as a disease.
Release of Chibok Girls Rekindles Pressure to Free Last 196
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA, Nov 11 (IPS) - The Nigerian military announced the rescue of a missing Chibok schoolgirl Saturday, bringing to 23 the number freed since Boko Haram seized 219 girls from a secondary school in the country's northeast in April 2014.