News headlines for “Human Population”, page 420
Q&A: "We Are Building Sexual Citizenship”
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Aug 14 (IPS) - Latin America and the Caribbean should play a central role in the construction of "sexual citizenship" - a concept that covers a series of population-related issues, rights and guarantees that this region helped build since the United Nations first emerged, says Brazilian expert Carmen Barroso.
When Disaster and Disability Converge – Part One
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 14 (IPS) - Like many people living in the path of Hurricane Sandy last fall, Lauren Scrivo needed more battery power. Despite a call offering help from the mayor of Fairfield, New Jersey, where Scrivo lives with her family, her concerns went far beyond extra water bottles and flashlights.
While Officials Talk, Israelis Build
- Inter Press Service
HAR BRACHA SETTLEMENT, Occupied West Bank, Aug 14 (IPS) - Large spools of black tubing and plastic-wrapped water tanks lay strewn across a dusty construction site. A handful of Palestinian labourers, speaking quietly in Arabic, shuttle the items to the two unfinished, three-storey apartment blocs behind them.
Saving an Overburdened River
- Inter Press Service
HOWICK, South Africa, Aug 14 (IPS) - Over the course of a 28-day trek down South Africa's Umgeni River, which flows from the pristine wetlands of the Umgeni Vlei Nature Reserve to the Durban coastline, Penny Rees, a coordinator for the Duzi uMngeni Conservation Trust, witnessed the polar opposites of river health.
Latin America’s Youth Face Hurdles to Jobs and Safe Sex
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Aug 13 (IPS) - Shortcomings in the educational system in Latin America and the Caribbean fuel inequalities that remain hurdles to access to the labour market and safe sex for a large part of the region's youth.
Q&A: “When the String of the Inequality Gap Snaps, You Have Political Crisis”
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Aug 12 (IPS) - "There is no development without peace. It should be understood that, for there to be development in a country, there must be an internal peace process," says Kanayo Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Targeting Hard-core Urban Poverty with a Female Face
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 12 (IPS) - A new social programme launched by the Argentine government to fight hard-core poverty is providing unemployed mothers who are heads of households with education, training, work and an income.
UNFPA to Focus on Women's Rights at Montevideo Conference
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 09 (IPS) - When the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) hosts a regional review conference in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo next week, it will take stock of the successes and failures of a wide range of gender-related issues, including reproductive health, sexual violence, women's rights, maternal mortality, and the spread of HIV/AIDS – all of them relating to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Taliban Fights Missing Trousers
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Aug 09 (IPS) - A new Taliban fashion directive to men has created surprise and drawn opposition. Orders to men to wear the loose traditional dress rather than trousers have been challenged on the grounds that men in the northwest of Pakistan do not wear trousers in the first place.
Supporting Rural Community Self-Management in Southern Peru
- Inter Press Service
QUEQUEÑA, Peru, Aug 07 (IPS) - Some 40 multicoloured tents were set up to showcase the fruits of community-based rural development projects in the main square of this village in southern Peru during a visit by IFAD president Kanayo Nwanze.
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