News headlines for “Human Population”, page 408
Cairo Women Bring Men Back on the Rails
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Nov 14 (IPS) - Nihal Saad Zaghloul is an Egyptian woman in her late twenties. Like other young women, she faces the daily risk of sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo. But Egypt's revolution made her realise that people can unite and that she can make a difference.
Idyllic Island Confronts Bloody Past
- Inter Press Service
AUKI, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, Nov 13 (IPS) - Anguish over the whereabouts of loved ones who went missing during a five-year civil conflict that ended a decade ago continues for countless families in the Solomon Islands. Searching for the remains of those who disappeared is vital to enduring peace in this culturally diverse south-west Pacific island nation of 550,000.
Middle East Women Mean Business
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Nov 13 (IPS) - Evidence is mounting to suggest women entrepreneurs are more common in the Middle East than in startup capital Silicon Valley, and some even say it's a more supportive place for them to start a business.
Little Preparation for a Great Disaster
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Nov 12 (IPS) - Despite the government's early warnings and evacuation of up to 800,000 people from vulnerable areas, the category 5 - the highest level - Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda to Filipinos) has left some communities and coastal zones in the central Philippine islands of Visayas in complete ruins.
Small Islands Demand U.N. Protection
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 11 (IPS) - Threatened by rising seas, some of the world's small island developing states (SIDS) are demanding that the U.N.'s new set of Sustainable Development Goals place a high priority on the protection of oceans and marine resources.
Ethiopia’s Indigenous Excluded from Rapid Growth
- Inter Press Service
OMO VALLEY, Ethiopia, Nov 11 (IPS) - As the construction of a major transmission line to export electricity generated from one of Ethiopia's major hydropower projects gets underway, there are growing concerns that pastoralist communities living in the region are under threat.
Caught Between Afghani and Pakistani
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 10 (IPS) - Seventeen-year-old Usmanullah Shah has never been to Afghanistan, the land of his forefathers. The son of Afghan parents who fled to Pakistan 34 years ago to escape war, he shudders at the thought of going there.
A Shortage of ARVs and a Surplus of Stigma in Côte d’Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Nov 08 (IPS) - At the Cocody-Anono community health centre, south-east of the Ivorian economic capital of Abidjan, Bertine Bahi* regularly attends awareness sessions on Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) for women living with HIV.
Breaking New Ground for Trans Children
- Inter Press Service
MÁLAGA, Spain/BUENOS AIRES, Nov 07 (IPS) - While non-heterosexual orientation is punishable by death in some parts of the world, in others the right to choose one's gender identity has begun to be respected from early childhood, giving rise to a new field of challenges.
OP-ED: Act Now, Act Big to End Sexual Violence in DRC
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 06 (IPS) - Imagine an orphanage where over 300 children born out of rape have been abandoned because of the shame and stigma associated with sexual violence. Imagine a town where, in the last year, 11 infants between the ages of 6 months and 1 year, and 59 small children from 1 to 3 years old, have been raped.
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