News headlines for “Human Population”, page 326
Women Still Struggling to Gain Equal Foothold in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Apr 07 (IPS) - Kali Sunar, 25, a resident of the Dumpada village in the remote Humla District in Far-West Nepal, lives a life that mirrors millions of her contemporaries.
Israeli Forces Target Journalists in West Bank
- Inter Press Service
KAFR QADDOUM, West Bank, Apr 07 (IPS) - It is becoming increasingly risky to cover clashes and protests between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters in the West Bank as the number of journalists injured, in what appears to be deliberate targeting by Israeli security forces, continues to rise.
Threats to Afghan Women Rights Defenders Being Met with Blind Eye
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Apr 07 (IPS) - Women human rights defenders in Afghanistan face mounting violence but are being abandoned by their own government – and the international community is doing far too little to ease their plight – despite the significant gains they have fought to achieve, says Amnesty International in a new report released Apr. 7.
Child Labour on U.S. Tobacco Farms: A Stubborn Problem in a Billion-Dollar Industry
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 06 (IPS) - For many young people, the summer is synonymous with free time, relaxation, or family vacations. For less fortunate kids the summer means labour, with scores of youths taking on part-time work to support their families.
Civil Society and Politics March for Negev Bedouin Recognition
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Apr 04 (IPS) - There was a symbolic dimension to a recent four-day march from the periphery of Israel to the corridors of power in Jerusalem to seek recognition for Bedouin villages.
Effective War Crimes Inquiry Could Heal Sri Lanka’s Old Wounds
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Apr 04 (IPS) - Jessi Joygeswaran seems like your typical 23-year-old young woman. She has an infectious smile and laughs a lot when she talks. Like many other young women anywhere in the world, her life is full of dreams.
No Rest for the Elderly in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Apr 02 (IPS) - As more and more people in India enter the ‘senior citizen' category, ugly cracks are beginning to appear in a social structure that claims to value the institution of family but in reality expresses disdain for the bonds of blood.
Opinion: Challenging the Power of the One Percent
- Inter Press Service
SAO PAULO, Apr 02 (IPS) - When you are faced with the task of moving an object but find it is too heavy to lift, what is your immediate and most natural response? You ask someone to help you lift it. And it makes all the difference.
Death Sentences up, Executions down in 2014
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 02 (IPS) - Governments worldwide sentenced at least 2,466 people to death in 2014; judgements which have been condemned by rights group Amnesty International.
U.N.'s Next Stop: Humanitarian Summit to Resolve Exploding Refugee Crisis
- Inter Press Service
KUWAIT CITY, Apr 02 (IPS) - As the world's spreading humanitarian crisis threatens to spill beyond the borders of Syria and Iraq into Libya and Yemen, the United Nations is already setting its sights on the first World Humanitarian Summit scheduled to take place in Istanbul next year.
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