News headlines for “Human Population”, page 163
The Missing Women in Finance
- Inter Press Service
Aug 13 (IPS) - Women comprise a very small proportion of the financial industry workforce, and this has implications on the way female clients use and benefit from financial services.
Promoting Women's Safety in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 13 (IPS) - Every year, over 12,000 women are killed in Latin America. The region is plagued by extremely high levels of violence, and a vacuum of state power persists. Public face of this violence is caused by paramilitary, guerrilla, gangs and armed groups.
Revitalizing Indigenous Languages Is Critical
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 12 (IPS) - Being fluent in a world language is a desirable skill in modern day society. However, some languages are suffering and in danger of extinction -- namely those of the indigenous peoples.
To Uplift a Woman is to Uplift a Village
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Aug 10 (IPS) - Khadija Zuberi, 23, from Ruaha Mbuyuni village, Iringa in Tanzania's southern highlands is a single mother to her four-year-old son, Hashim.
How India's Indigenous Female Forest Dwellers Feel about Owning Their Own Land
- Inter Press Service
KORCHI/GADCHIROLI, India, Aug 09 (IPS) - Kumaribai Jamkatan, 51, has been fighting for women's land rights since 1987. Though the constitution of India grants equal rights to men and women, women first started to stake their claim for formal ownership of land only after 2005–the year the government accorded legal rights to daughters to be co-owners of family-owned land.
In the Midst of Conflict, India's Indigenous Female Forest Dwellers Own their Land
- Inter Press Service
KORCHI/GADCHIROLI, India, Aug 09 (IPS) - Jam Bai, an Indigenous farmer from Korchi village in western India, is a woman in hurry. After two months of waiting, the rains have finally come and the rice saplings for her paddy fields must be sown this week while the land is still soft.
Burning Forests for Rain, and Other Climate Catastrophes
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 09 (IPS) - The villagers living on the foothills of Mount Kenya have a belief: If they burn the forest, the rains will come.
Land Degradation Jeopardizes Ability to Feed the World
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Aug 09 (IPS) - Ibrahim Thiaw is UN Under Secretary General and Executive Secretary to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
We have known for over 25 years that poor land use and management are major drivers of climate change, but have never mustered the political will to act.
If Fertility Rates Remain Constant
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 09 (IPS) - What if current fertility rates of countries remain constant for the rest of the 21st century? Under this assumption, the populations of high fertility countries skyrocket while those of most low fertility countries plummet and world population nearly triples in size by the century's close.
The Nairobi Summit - Towards a Watershed Moment
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 08 (IPS) - In 2019 a female scientist created an algorithm that gave the world the first ever images of a black hole. Working with a team of astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and engineers, a young woman led the development of a computer program that in her own words enabled them to "achieve something once thought impossible."
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