News headlines for “Human Population”, page 291
Precarious Nature of Public Employment Facilitated Mass Lay-offs in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
Tanzania: Girls Struggle to Avoid Forced Marriage, Yearn to Learn
- Inter Press Service
KAHAMA, Tanzania, Jan 21 (IPS) - Maria was barely 16 when her father removed her from school to marry her off to a man 20 years older than she was just so that the family could receive eleven cows as her dowry.
Q&A: Ensuring Food Security for All
- Inter Press Service
Rome, Italy, Jan 19 (IPS) - Coming from a developing country where, in our generation, we have experienced the devastating effects of food insecurity and the complexity of its root causes, I take to heart the objective of ensuring that during my mandate, CFS will make a ‘real' difference to people's lives. Achieving results is something that we owe each and every undernourished person who today, in 2016 goes to bed hungry. There is still an unacceptable 793 million people in this condition worldwide! Ensuring food security for all is also something that we owe our children.
Seven Top Challenges Facing African Women
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Egypt, Jan 18 (IPS) - Economic exclusion; financial systems that perpetuate their discrimination; limited participation in political and public life; lack of access to education and poor retention of girls in schools; gender-based violence; harmful cultural practices, and exclusion of women from peace tables, are the major standing barriers to achieving gender equality in Africa.
Maternal and Child Health Key to Kenya’s Economic Growth
- Inter Press Service
Mandera County, Kenya, Jan 18 (IPS) - On Friday, 06 November 2015, we had the honor of meeting the First Lady of Kenya Ms Margaret Kenyatta, a tireless advocate for "every woman and every child", during the launch of the Beyond Zero campaign in Mandera County, North-Eastern Kenya, a place which has often been described as ‘the worst place on earth to give birth'.
Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Teen Mother Fights the Odds and Wants to be a Nurse
- Inter Press Service
BLANTYRE, Jan 15 (IPS) - Being a single mother at the age of 19 is not what most teenage girls want for themselves. But this is the life Esther Mkwakwasa is living in Namphungo village in Mulanje District. Orphaned at the age of 14, Esther saw herself being moved from one foster home to another until she got pregnant.
57 Million Deaths in Perspective
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jan 14 (IPS) - The number of deaths worldwide in 2015 was approximately 57 million. Those deaths represent 0.78 percent of the world's population of 7.3 billion. In comparison, 140 million births occurred in 2015, resulting in a global population increase of 83 million people.
2016 Potential Landmark Year for Women Leaders in US and UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 12 (IPS) - The United Nations is hoping 2016 will be a landmark year for gender empowerment – not only for the world body but also for the United States.
Zimbabwe: Poverty Stunting Minds and Growth
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jan 12 (IPS) - Mildren Ndlovu* knows the mental toll of Zimbabwe's long-drawn economic hardships in a country where a long rehashed statistic by labour unions puts unemployment at 90 per cent.
Drought Boosts Science in Dominican Republic
- Inter Press Service
SANTO DOMINGO, Jan 11 (IPS) - The recent lengthy drought in the Dominican Republic, which began to ease in late 2015, caused serious losses in agriculture and prompted national water rationing measures and educational campaigns.
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