Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 393
Surviving Zimbabwe’s Anti-Gay Laws
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Feb 11 (IPS) - Matthew Jacobs* has been married for two years but his wife doesn't know that he is also in a relationship with someone else. If his secret were discovered, it could result in him ending up in jail. His crime? Being in a same-sex relationship.
Doctors Resist Deadly Vaccine
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 08 (IPS) - A spate of sudden infant deaths following vaccination in India has prompted leading paediatricians to call for stronger regulatory mechanisms to evaluate new vaccines for safety and efficacy before their acceptance into the national immunisation programme.
Economic Crisis in Mali’s North as the South Recovers
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Feb 06 (IPS) - Under the harsh Sunday afternoon sun, Daouda Dicko washes his client's clothes on the shore of the Niger River, which runs through Mali's capital, Bamako. "I started doing this to survive two years ago. Now, I am used to it and I don't mind the extra money it brings," Dicko, who also works as a gardener, tells IPS.
After Slowdown, Global Fight for Land Rights at Tipping Point
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 05 (IPS) - Global trends towards a strengthening of legal rights over land for local and indigenous communities appear to have slowed significantly in recent years, leading some analysts to warn that the fight for local control over forests has reached an inflection point with a new danger of backtracking on previous progress.
The Ugandan Traffic App to Tackle Corruption
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Feb 05 (IPS) - There's the good: "A slight delay of about a minute."
The bad: "Terrible jam!!"
And the unbelievable: "No jam." But as long as Kampala motorists and pedestrians are talking traffic, the eight Ugandan creators of new app called RoadConexion, are happy. For the time being, anyway.
Prosecution of Forced Sterilisations in Peru Still Possible
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Feb 03 (IPS) - Shelving the case of the forced sterilisation of more than 2,000 women in Peru during the Alberto Fujimori regime was a surprise move by the prosecutor in charge. What happened? An IPS investigation found that legal avenues to pursue justice have not been exhausted.
Living Again With the Ways of Tito and Stalin
- Inter Press Service
BELGRADE, Feb 03 (IPS) - One of the best kept secrets of former Yugoslavia is out in the open after the online release of the names of 16,101 inmates of Goli Otok, or the Naked Island, the country's only gulag – a Soviet system of forced labour camps – created 65 years ago.
Dalit Women Face Multiplied Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Feb 03 (IPS) - Maya Sarki, a resident of Belbari in eastern Nepal, was returning home one summer evening last year when she was attacked. She was forced down on the ground and her attacker attempted to rape her.
Gender Counts in the Aftermath of Disaster
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan 31 (IPS) - The rise in natural disasters in the Caribbean due to climate change has led to increased suffering for both men and women, much of it as a consequence of socially constructed roles based on gender, experts say.
Mali’s Displaced Still Have Nothing To Return To
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Jan 31 (IPS) - In her traditional orange headdress, Agaichetou Toure sits quietly in a waiting room in Kalaban-Koura, a popular neighbourhood on the outskirts of Mali's capital Bamako.
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