News headlines for “Human Population”, page 417
Cuba Streamlines Public Health System
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 07 (IPS) - One challenge faced by the Cuban government, and a high priority for citizens, is improving the efficiency and sustainability of public health services, a constitutional right that the state is supposed to ensure for all.
Cuban Teenagers Overuse Abortion as Birth Control
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 06 (IPS) - In nearly all of Latin America, illegal abortion is a serious public health problem. But in Cuba, where abortion is legal, it is being overused by teenagers.
Mobile Phones Big Hit in Rural Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Sep 04 (IPS) - Prosper Muripo rents a small space in a general dealer's shop at the Gotora shopping centre in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province. He is one of the many people in rural Zimbabwe who earn a living selling recharge vouchers and charging mobile phone batteries on solar-powered chargers.
Q&A: "We Need a Decisive Win Against Polio"
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 03 (IPS) - Siddharth Chatterjee has served as the chief diplomat, head of strategic partnerships and international relations at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the world's largest humanitarian network, since June 2011.
Sri Lanka Cornered Over Human Rights
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sep 03 (IPS) - That it would be a visit fraught with diplomatic tension was undoubted. Navanetham ‘Navi' Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was into the third day of her week-long visit from Aug. 25 to Aug. 31 to Sri Lanka when her entourage broke into animated discussion.
Migrant Rights Defenders in Mexico Face Growing Pressure
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 02 (IPS) - "No one can stop me from working for migrants' rights, because no one is above my own conscience," said Mexican Catholic priest Alejandro Solalinde.
Water Scarcity Could Drive Conflict or Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 02 (IPS) - When the General Assembly declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYWC) three years ago, the U.N.'s highest policy-making body was conscious of the perennial conflicts triggered by competition over one of the world's most critical finite resources.
Native Americans Take Lead in Tar Sands Resistance
- Inter Press Service
SPOKANE, Washington, Sep 01 (IPS) - Native American tribes in the United States have taken the lead in opposing the expansion of the Athabasca Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada, engaging in civil disobedience to the point of arrest and attempting to physically block shipments of construction equipment from passing through their native lands.
Filming Uganda’s Own Stories
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA?, Aug 30 (IPS) - For four years Isaac Godfrey Nabwana made and sold bricks in Kampala's Wakalinga slum. But now, thanks to his labours, he is building what he hopes will become Uganda's answer to Nollywood.
Cuban Doctors Bring Eyesight, Healthcare to Haiti
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 28 (IPS) - It's Saturday, and the entrance hall of a police station in front of the busy market in Salomon in the Haitian capital has become an improvised health post. In a few minutes there is a long queue of people waiting to be seen by the Cuban medical brigade.
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