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Air Pollution Kills Millions Every Year: Action Needed
The World Health Organization calls air pollution the “single biggest environmental threat to human health" and estimates that 99 percent of the world’s population live in locations that are above WHO thresholds designed to protect human health. . Credit: Malav Goswami/IPSBy Felix HorneSep 2 2022 (IPS) Tarik, age 42, lives in a village adjacent to a decades-old coal power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the day we visited, Bosnian cities were some of the most polluted places on Earth. Describing the devastating health toll the air pollution took each year on the village’s older residents he voiced his fear for hi...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Felix Horne Tags: Environment Global Headlines Health Source Type: news

Groups Push Obama to Clarify U.S. Abortion Funding for Wartime Rape
Survivors at a workshop in Pader, northern Uganda. Thousands of women were raped during Uganda’s civil war but there have been few government efforts to assist them. Credit: Rosebell Kagumire/IPSBy Carey L. BironWASHINGTON, Dec 10 2014 (IPS)Nearly two dozen health, advocacy and faith groups are calling on President Barack Obama to take executive action clarifying that U.S. assistance can be used to fund abortion services for women and girls raped in the context of war and conflict.The groups gathered Tuesday outside of the White House to draw attention to what they say is an ongoing misreading by politicians as well as h...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 10, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Carey L. Biron Tags: Active Citizens Aid Armed Conflicts Civil Society Crime & Justice Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies North America Population TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Abortio Source Type: news