News headlines for “Human Population”, page 341
Measles Still Kills Thousands of Children Each Year
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 05 (IPS) - Measles remains one of the leading causes of death for young children worldwide, even though a safe and ostensibly affordable vaccine is available.
Taiwanese Activists Push for Citizen-Based Constitution
- Inter Press Service
TAIPEI, Feb 05 (IPS) - "The clock is ticking." Those were the words of Taiwan Democracy Watch Director Yeh Chueh-an on Feb. 4, as scores of civil society organisations in the capital, Taipei, began a countdown for a citizen-based rewriting of Taiwan's constitution aimed at safeguarding human rights and social equity.
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.
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