News headlines for “Human Population”, page 426
War or Peace, Sri Lankan Women Struggle to Survive
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 10 (IPS) - It has been four years since the guns fell silent in Sri Lanka's northern Vanni region, after almost three decades of ethnic violence. Unfortunately peace does not mean the end of hardship for the most vulnerable people here: the women.
Time to Let Sudan's Girls be Girls, Not Brides
- Inter Press Service
KHARTOUM, Jul 10 (IPS) - Lawyers and rights activists are calling for a change in Sudan's laws which allow for the marriage of girls as young as 10.
A Floral Touch to Employment in Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, Jul 09 (IPS) - As a little girl, Rubeena Begum had big plans: she would become a doctor and secure a decent income working in one of the 30 hospitals in the Himalayan state of Kashmir in north India.
Nepal Scores Low on Quality Education
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Jul 09 (IPS) - Sabitri Kumari Das, a middle-aged mother of two, is rightfully worried about her two young daughters: both girls attend a public primary school in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, and neither one of them seems to be advancing academically.
Saving Côte d’Ivoire’s Fragile Forests and People
- Inter Press Service
DIX-HUIT MONTAGNES REGION, Côte d’Ivoire, Jul 09 (IPS) - As the Côte d'Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region.
Kenya’s Mothers Shun Free Maternity Health Care
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jul 09 (IPS) - It has been a month since the Kenyan government waived the maternity fee at public health facilities, but Millicent Awino is still one of the many expectant mothers in favour of a home birth.
Needed in Brazil: Integrated Urban Transport System
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 09 (IPS) - Bus lanes, cycle paths and pedestrian walkways are viable solutions to the transport collapse in Brazil's big cities. But economic interests, red tape and the lack of strategies for an integrated system are delaying a process that the protests raging across the country for the last few weeks have made an urgent issue.
Bigger Dangers Lurk Behind Berlusconi Scandal
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 07 (IPS) - The scandal around the under-age prostitute that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi allegedly had sex with is not about just that one girl: an estimated 10,000 under-age girls become victims of sexual exploitation every year in Italy.
Girls Fight Back Against Child Marriage
- Inter Press Service
RANGPUR, Bangladesh, Jul 05 (IPS) - Shirin Aktar was just 13 years old when her parents decided it was time for her to get married.
OP-ED: Moving Forward to End Violence Against Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 03 (IPS) - Last year, as rebels captured the main towns in Northern Mali, UN Women registered a sudden and dramatic increase of rapes in the first week of the takeover of Gao and Kidal, in places where most women never report this violence to anyone, not even health practitioners.
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