News headlines for “Human Population”, page 428
To Find Peace, And Then Sell It
- Inter Press Service
SANAA, Jun 29 (IPS) - As the month of Ramadan nears, shop owners in Sanaa's old city souk stock up on goods. For men like Ali Al-Fakri, who sells jambiyahs, Yemen's traditional daggers held in place with richly embroidered belts, the gift-giving holiday marking Ramadan's end is the busiest time of the year.
Native People's Land Demands Gain Visibility in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 28 (IPS) - The native people of Argentina are achieving unprecedented visibility for their demands. However, they are still faced with hurdles to more rapid progress towards their claims.
Acid Survivors Say Theirs Is a Fate Worse Than Death
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 28 (IPS) - Women in Pakistan are no strangers to horror. In this country of 176 million, about 90 percent of women have experienced domestic violence; every year, over 1,000 women are murdered in so-called ‘honour killings'. Two years ago, the Thomson Reuters Foundation named Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world for women and girls.
Cultural Engagement Key to Improving U.S.-Iran Relations – Report
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) - Increasing U.S.-Iran cultural exchanges could lay the groundwork for better relations between the two countries, believes a prominent think tank here, despite the prevalence of stereotypical memes of the United States as the "Great Satan" and Iran as part of the "Axis of Evil".
Afghan Refugees Dig Their Heels into Pakistani Soil
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 27 (IPS) - Muhammad Shakoor, 42, calls Pakistan home.
Born in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, he was bundled across the border during the Soviet invasion of his country in 1979 by his family fleeing the chaos of war.
A Man-Made Himalayan Tsunami?
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jun 27 (IPS) - On the outskirts of Rudraprayag, a town in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand whose many temples draw tourists and Hindu pilgrims with magnetic force, visitors often stop for a meal at a popular hotel built right on the river Alakananda.
Agriculture Leans on Japanese Women
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Jun 26 (IPS) - Yukako Harada, an energetic 29-year-old, is part of a small but determined band of women farmers working hard to revitalise Japan's moribund agricultural sector, which is feeling the crunch of an ageing population and a flood of cheap imports.
Q&A: How One Woman Demands Answers and an End to FGM
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - Bogaletch Gebre knows exactly what women in her Ethiopian community are going through. Along with her sisters, the women's rights activist was a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) when she was a child in a part of Ethiopia where the practise was carried out on every girl.
Q&A: Empower Indigenous Women to Assert Their Rights
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - Women around the world are exposed to domestic violence, sexual and economic exploitation, gender-based violence, female genital mutilation and child marriage. For indigenous women and girls, however, the risk of being victims of such issues are especially high.
Flood Risks in Venezuela Increased by “New Rains” Linked to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Jun 25 (IPS) - "The river is reclaiming its place, the water has risen up to here," says Ana Polanco, crouching down to hold her hand high above her head in the little tin house she shares with her children in El Hueco, one of the communities on the east side of the Venezuelan capital besieged by the polluted and deceptively calm Guaire River.
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