News headlines for “Human Population”, page 409
‘I Sold My Sister for 300 Dollars’
- Inter Press Service
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan, Nov 06 (IPS) - Amani has just turned 22. Two months ago she fled from the civil war in Syria and left her house in capital Damascus. After a dangerous nightlong trip she arrived at Zaatari, the refugee camp just over the border in Jordan, where her parents and two sisters had already lived for over a year.
U.N. Urged to Practice What It Preaches on Gender
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 05 (IPS) - Amidst a rise in sexual violence in the world's war zones, the United Nations has begun appointing women to head some of the key political and peacekeeping missions in conflict areas - and also created Gender Advisers as a second line of defence.
The Sickest Places in the World
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 05 (IPS) - Parts of Indonesia, Argentina and Nigeria are among the top 10 most polluted places on the planet, according to a new report by U.S. and European environmental groups.
Women Find a Green Midas Touch
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Nov 05 (IPS) - On a hot and humid day in northwestern Bangladesh, Anisa Begum sits with a group of 25 homemakers, explaining how to use natural fertilisers to increase grain yield.
HIV Wave Feared in Central Asia
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Nov 04 (IPS) - Healthcare systems in Eastern Europe and Central Asia remain woefully unable to cope with HIV/AIDS as the region's raging epidemic – the fastest growing in the world – takes on a new dimension, a senior UN official has told IPS.
For Kurdish Women, It’s a Double Revolution
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, Nov 04 (IPS) - "I got married when I was 14 and I already had four children at 20," recalls Nafia Brahim. In her fifties now, she is working hard so that no other woman loses control of her life.
OP-ED: How Women's Rights Are Linked to U.S.-Iran Negotiations
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 01 (IPS) - While U.S. and Iranian negotiators prepare for another round of nuclear talks in Geneva next month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been silent about another matter that could be even more indicative of his willingness to take on hardline conservatives.
Thai Women Don Monks’ Robes
- Inter Press Service
NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand, Nov 01 (IPS) - Thai women were among the first women in Asia granted voting rights, in 1932. However, when it comes to religion, women in Thailand continue to struggle for equality and social acceptance.
In Haiti, Cholera Claims New Victims Daily
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS/PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 31 (IPS) - Some 2,400 kilometres from New York City, where victims of Haiti's cholera epidemic are suing the United Nations in a U.S. federal court, the disease continues to burn through the populace with no end in sight.
Ivoirians Face an Incomplete Justice
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Oct 31 (IPS) - "We are sad. We want our president back," Yao Amandine told IPS from a street corner in the Ivorian economic metropolis, Abidjan, after the International Criminal Court ruled against granting former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo a conditional release on Tuesday.
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