Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 336
Bangladesh Fighting Inequality at the Preschool Level
- Inter Press Service
JAMALPUR, Bangladesh, Feb 04 (IPS) - Shanta* is only four years old, but already she loves school. Every morning, her mother walks her to the small pre-primary facility in Mohonpur village, about 140 km away from Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, and leaves her in the care of a young female teacher, who oversees the day's activities: storytelling, drama, reciting poetry.
No Hope in Sight for Latin America’s Prison Crisis
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Feb 02 (IPS) - In Latin America's prisons, notorious for extreme overcrowding and violence, inmates live in constant danger of being killed – a contradiction in a region where virtually every country has abolished the death penalty.
OPINION: The Plight of Women and Girls in Zambezi’s Floods
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 02 (IPS) - The flooding of the Zambezi River has had devastating consequences for three countries in Southern Africa. The three worst affected countries are Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
India Still Struggling to Combat Child Labour
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 02 (IPS) - Eleven-year-old Chottu* works 12 hours daily at a roadside tea joint near New Delhi's bustling interstate bus terminus.
Ecological Latrines Catch on in Rural Cuba
- Inter Press Service
BABINEY, Cuba, Jan 31 (IPS) - Most people in Cuba without toilets use the traditional outhouse. But an innovative, ecological alternative is catching on in remote rural communities.
Dying in Childbirth Still a National Trend in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jan 30 (IPS) - For 47-year-old Albert Mangwendere from Mutoko, a district 143 kilometres east of Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, transporting his three pregnant wives using a wheelbarrow to a local clinic has become routine, with his wives delivering babies one after the other.
Fighting Hunger from the Pitch
- Inter Press Service
Dumped, Abandoned, Abused: Women in India’s Mental Health Institutions
- Inter Press Service
MUMBAI, Jan 30 (IPS) - Following the birth of her third child, Delhi-based entrepreneur Smita* found herself feeling "disconnected and depressed", often for days at a stretch. "Much later I was told it was severe post-partum depression but at the time it wasn't properly diagnosed," she told IPS.
Missing Students Case Also Highlights Racism in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jan 29 (IPS) - The mother tongue of Celso García, a 51-year-old indigenous Mexican, is Mixteca. As a boy, García, the father of one of the 43 students forcibly disappeared four months ago, had to learn Spanish to make his way in mainstream society in this country where most people are of mixed-race heritage.
Conflict-Related Displacement: A Huge Development Challenge for India
- Inter Press Service
KOKRAJHAR, India, Jan 29 (IPS) - The tarpaulin sheet, when stretched and tied to bamboo poles, is about the length and breadth of a large SUV. Yet, about 25 women and children have been sleeping beneath these makeshift shelters at several relief camps across Kokrajhar, a district in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.
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