News headlines for “Human Population”, page 398
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.
Education Is Key to Bachelet’s Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Jan 30 (IPS) - For 14-year-old Isadora Riquelme and thousands of other Chilean teenagers, the chance of getting the university education they want depends on the reforms that Michelle Bachelet has promised to undertake when she takes office as president again in March.
Kenya’s Journey Towards Zero New HIV Infections Falters
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jan 29 (IPS) - In early January 2008, during the violence that rocked Kenya after disputed general elections, a man knocked at Lucia Wakonyo's gate at Mathare Valley, in the sprawling Mathare slum.
Human Trafficking Survivors Urge U.S. to Take Action
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (IPS) - Advocacy groups and some legislators are calling on the U.S. government to mandate an increase in corporate supply chain transparency, with the aim of cutting down on the estimated 14,000 to 17,000 people trafficked into the United States each year and the tens of millions enslaved globally.
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