News headlines for “Human Population”, page 424
Latin America’s Migration Policies Fall Short
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 18 (IPS) - Several years after the start of the economic crisis in the United States and Europe, which led to a shift in migration patterns, Latin America still lacks a more inclusive view of the phenomenon of people seeking a better life abroad.
Economics and Population Policies Go Hand In Hand
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 17 (IPS) - Nearly 20 years after the landmark U.N. conference on population and development, the countries of Latin America have an opportunity to make headway with a new agenda on these issues, thanks to the favourable economic context that has made it possible to reduce social inequalities.
Community Theatre Confronts Gender Stereotypes
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Jul 17 (IPS) - The play opens with a man and his mother waiting impatiently at the dining table in the family home. A woman rushes in after a busy day at the office with takeaway dinner packets, followed by her son and daughter who walk in expecting their mother to serve them a meal.
U.S., U.K. Accused of Ignoring, Facilitating Abuses in Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - The U.S. and U.K. foreign assistance offices are being accused of ignoring, mischaracterising or downplaying testimony offered by ethnic communities in Ethiopia who accuse the Addis Ababa government of forcefully evicting them from their lands and violating their human rights in the name of mass development projects.
WHO’s Iraq Birth Defect Study Omits Causation
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - A long-awaited study on congenital birth defects by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Iraq is expected to be very extensive in nature.
Promises to Gas Victims Only 'Hot Air'
- Inter Press Service
MENCHUM DIVISION, Cameroon, Jul 17 (IPS) - Ismaela Muhamadu was six years old when he lost his parents and siblings in a poisonous gas explosion at northern Cameroon's Lake Nyos. The blast killed more than 1,800 people, and 3,000 cattle and wildlife over a 25-km radius.
Brazil Develops “Superfoods” to Fight Hidden Hunger
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 17 (IPS) - In less than 10 years, consumers throughout Brazil will have access to eight biofortified "superfoods" being developed by the country's scientists. A pilot initiative is currently underway in 15 municipalities.
Stronger Laws to Deter Acid Attacks on Women
- Inter Press Service
KOLKATA, India, Jul 16 (IPS) - Preeti Rathi was just 25 years old when she passed away in a Mumbai hospital exactly a month after a man threw acid on her while she stood waiting on a railway platform.
U.N. Deploys Women Protection Advisers to Curb Sexual Violence
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 (IPS) - Despite the United Nations' "zero tolerance" policy against sexual violence, there has been a rash of gender-based crimes in several of the world's conflict zones, including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Northern Uganda, Somalia, the Central African Republic - and, more recently, in politically-troubled Egypt and Syria.
Critics Warn Pacific Pact Could Jack Up Drug Costs
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 16 (IPS) - As a new round of talks behind a major proposed free trade area, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), get underway this week, the United States is pushing several developing countries to accept provisions that critics say would make it more difficult for their citizens to access medicine.
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