Browsing Tag: World

Evaluating Challenges Women Face

Just as many women in the United States are feeling under assault from conservatives threatening to impose restrictions on abortion rights and even contraceptives, the groundbreaking agency U.N. Women is marking its first year and hundreds of firebrands and activists are convening here for the third annual Women in the World meeting.
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Tracking How the World Guzzles Water

The researchers hope the study will help governments evaluate the various factors contributing to national water footprints and adjust unsustainable consumption practices and inefficiencies in production.
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Battle to end hunger is winnable

In a SPIEGEL interview, José Graziano da Silva, 62, the new head of the United Nations aid organization FAO, discusses his plans to combat hunger as well as his efforts to limit speculation and the impact it has on dramatically fluctuating food prices.
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Seven Billion

ONE week from today, the United Nations estimates, the world’s population will reach seven billion. Because censuses are infrequent and incomplete, no one knows the precise date — the Census Bureau puts it somewhere next March — but there can be no doubt that humanity is approaching a milestone.
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Round-the-world cyclist finds hospitality in Kansas City

“There are two purposes to my venturing,” Chakraborty said. He wants to set a world record and educate people about the importance of green living while doing it. “Pollution is coming to our good world,” he said.
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World wastes 1 billion tons of food a year

"Perhaps one of the most important reasons for food waste at the consumption level in rich countries is that people simply can afford to waste food," the report states. Food loss, on the other hand, is mainly a problem in the developing world, where nations lack the infrastructure and technology to efficiently produce food, according to the report.
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U.N. Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Century’s End

The population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released Tuesday. Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than triple in this century, rising from today’s one billion to 3.6 billion, the report said...
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World’s Muslim population to grow twice as fast as non-Muslim: study

The world’s Muslim population will grow twice as fast as the non-Muslim population in the next 20 years, when Muslims are expected to make up more than a quarter of the global population...
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UN: Global Access to Drinking Water Grows, But Poorest Falling Behind

The proportion of the world’s population with access to improved drinking water sources grew by 10 percent over a period roughly covering the past two decades, according to a United Nations study. The study was released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and UN World Health Organization (WHO).
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Internet to hit 2 Billion users by end of 2010

The ITU report also noted that U.N. analysts expect that there will be 226 Million new Internet users just this year, and that 162 Million of them will be from developing countries.
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