News headlines for “Human Population”, page 411
Four Years after a Tamil Defeat, the Diaspora Regroups
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 25 (IPS) - Seated at a desk piled high with court documents and yellowed newspapers, Visvanathan Rudrakumaran remembers leaving Sri Lanka and coming to New York for the first time, three decades ago.
Refugees Eating Dogs to Beat Starvation
- Inter Press Service
DAMASCUS, Oct 25 (IPS) - Acute food shortages have reached desperate levels in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. Leading religious figures in the camps have issued a fatwa permitting the killing and consumption of cats, dogs, mice, rats and donkeys.
"One Day in There Is Like 100 Years”
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Oct 24 (IPS) - "It's just like a prison. One day in there is like 100 years," says Jennifer, a 35-year-old Nigerian woman, describing what her aunt went through in the Immigrant Detention Centre (CIE) in this city in southern Spain before she was deported.
Power Struggle Rises Over Tanzania’s Pangani River
- Inter Press Service
PANGANI, Tanzania, Oct 24 (IPS) - As farmers and herders fight over dwindling water levels in the Pangani River Basin in northeastern Tanzania, a new dispute is emerging between farmers and the state-run power utility firm over this precious resource.
Sometimes, Sex Work is the Least Bad
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Oct 24 (IPS) - "We are not saying that all people become sex workers, but you make more money," Virak Horn, a 32-year-old gay sex worker who works freelance in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, tells IPS. He earns enough to support his family and pay for his college degree.
Pakistan’s ‘Dirty’ Christians Now Afraid to Clean
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, PakistanH, Oct 23 (IPS) - Like most Christians in Pakistan, Johar Maseeh did a little cleaning job. He was a sweeper in a factory in Peshawar, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan.
Tanzania’s Costal Communities Forced to Drink Seawater
- Inter Press Service
PANGANI, Tanzania, Oct 22 (IPS) - The freshwater drinking supply of the coastal town of Pangani in northeast Tanzania is becoming increasingly contaminated as salt water steadily seeps in from the Indian Ocean.
The United States of Drought
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (IPS) - As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage.
Mirror, Mirror – Who Is that Woman on TV?
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21 (IPS) - Carla Vilas Boas is of mixed-race descent – African, European and indigenous - like a majority of the population of Brazil. But she spends hours straightening her hair, trying to look more like the blond, blue-eyed women she sees in the mirror of television.
Solomon Man Learning Wisely to Respect Women
- Inter Press Service
HONIARA, Solomon Islands, Oct 20 (IPS) - In the Solomon Islands in the south-west Pacific, where two in three of the estimated female population of 252,000 have experienced physical and sexual partner abuse, recognition is growing that ending the cycle of violence cannot be achieved without the partnership of men as catalysts of change. And initiatives by men are gaining support.
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