News headlines for “Human Population”, page 140
Former Child Bride Holds Pakistan to Account for Wrongful Imprisonment in Historic Legal Challenge
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, May 08 (IPS) - A former Pakistani child bride, who was wrongly accused of killing her husband at 13 and subsequently spent almost two decades in prison, is making history by being the first victim of a miscarriage of justice to seek compensation from the state, say legal human rights experts.
COVID-19: The Digital Divide Grows Wider Amid Global Lockdown
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 08 (IPS) - The digital divide has become more pronounced than ever amid the global coronavirus lockdown, but experts are concerned that in the current circumstances this divide, where over 46 percent of the world's population remain without technology or internet access, could grow wider -- particularly among women.
Coronavirus Hasn´t Slowed Down Ecological Women Farmers in Peru's Andes Highlands
- Inter Press Service
HUASAO, Peru, May 06 (IPS) - It's eight o'clock in the morning and Pascuala Ninantay is carrying two large containers of water in her wheelbarrow to prepare with neighbouring women farmers 200 litres of organic fertiliser, which will then be distributed to fertilise their crops, in this town in the Andes highlands of Peru.
Q&A: COVID-19 Means we Must Innovate Data Collection, Especially on Gender
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 05 (IPS) - The current coronavirus pandemic can offer insight into how to shake-up traditional methods of data collection, and might provide an opportunity to do it in more innovative ways, in turn enhancing progress towards gender equality.
Protect Journalists' Rights so We can Stop the COVID-19 Disinfodemic
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, May 01 (IPS) - Andrew Sam Raja Pandian, a digital journalist and founder of a news portal in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, was arrested for running two news articles related to COVID-19.
One of the articles exposed corruption in the government food aid distribution system, while the other highlighted doctors in Coimbatore city facing food issues. The city police first detained the journalist and photographer who had reported on the stories, Jerald Aruldas and M Balaji, for 9 hours before arresting Pandian for publishing the pieces.
Only Sustainable Investment & Global Cooperation Can Counter COVID’s Blow to SDGs
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 30 (IPS) - We are today in a time of crisis—a time when our shared choices will shape the way history tells our story and the paradigm shift it has so forcefully provoked.
Why Reproductive Rights Must Be a Critical Part of Our Arsenal to Fight Pandemics
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 27 (IPS) - Sexual and reproductive health and pandemics might seem to be unrelated topics, but large and dense populations are drivers of the high velocity transmission of COVID-19, and there are lessons to be learned for the future.
Ensuring Russia’s Sex Workers’ Rights Essential for Wider Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Apr 27 (IPS) - Ensuring sex workers' rights was essential, not just for the workers themselves, but for any country's wider society, including public healthDespite seeing a shift in attitudes towards them in recent years, Russian sex workers say they continue to struggle with marginalisation and criminalisation which poses a danger to them and the wider public.
SDGs: the Challenge to Improve Lives After the COVID-19 Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - The SDGs, with their universal scope, interlinked nature and focus on leaving no one behind will be more essential than ever during and after this crisis.
Autonomous Resourcing: the Engine Room of Feminist Work Amid a Global Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Australia, Apr 23 (IPS) - Feminist responses to COVID-19 have been swift, insightful, and numerous.
There have been webinars (so.many.webinars), twitter threads, illustrations, press releases and policy recommendations, and online house parties. Analysis pieces cover everything from the gendered impacts of COVID-19 to how to work remotely to the role of neoliberal capitalism.
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