News headlines for “Human Population”, page 434
“I've Finally Got My Torah Back”
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 02 (IPS) - Growing up as a child, Trisha Arlin had never seen a woman rabbi. Back then, women were not allowed to read the Torah, nor were they allowed to serve in synagogues.
The Battle to Save DRC’s Mothers
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Jun 02 (IPS) - "Many hospitals and health centres" that are not run by NGOs "do not meet health standards," according to Dominique Baabo, provincial medical inspector for North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Healthcare for Native People in Brazil Is Ailing
- Inter Press Service
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jun 01 (IPS) - Healthcare for Brazil's indigenous minority is in poor health, according to U.N. experts, missionaries, social workers and native people themselves.
Five Native American “Champions” Call for Change
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 31 (IPS) - It's Sarah Schilling's usual manner of greeting when she meets other members of her tribe: "Aanii Sarah Schilling n'diznakaas, which translates to ‘Hello, Sarah is my name' in English," she said.
Religious Intolerance Taints Award for Indonesian President
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA/NEW YORK, May 31 (IPS) - Standing in front of the two-metre concrete wall, barbed wire and corrugated iron fence that surrounds his mosque, Muhammad Iqbal says he feels like a second-class citizen in his own country.
Sex Educators Struggle to Break Taboos
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 (IPS) - Liberian journalist Mae Azango says she spent a year living "like a bat, going from tree to tree" with her daughter in order to escape religious fanatics who were threatening to kill her for exposing the practice of female genital mutilation in her home country last year.
U.N. Panel Projects a Poverty-Free World by 2030
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 31 (IPS) - A U.N.-commissioned high-level panel of eminent persons, led by three world leaders, has moved the goal posts for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger: from the current 2015 deadline to a new targeted date of 2030.
Courage to Combat Domestic Violence
- Inter Press Service
AUKI, Solomon Islands, May 30 (IPS) - Selina, a resident of a small community in Malaita, the most populous province in the Solomon Islands, watched in horror as a man standing on the road in front of her house tore the clothing off his wife, then beat her and inflicted wounds with a knife.
Nicaraguan Women May Have to Negotiate with their Abusers
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, May 30 (IPS) - Conservative sectors in Nicaragua have launched an offensive against the Comprehensive Law Against Violence Toward Women, seeking amendments including an obligation for women victims to negotiate with their abusers, human rights groups reported.
Dreams of Education Fly Away for Ghana’s Working Kids
- Inter Press Service
WUBA, Northern Ghana, May 30 (IPS) - It is a school day but 13-year-old Musah Razark Adams, a Grade 5 primary school pupil in Wuba, northern Ghana, is standing in a rice field wielding a "koglung" – a sling shot to hit birds with.
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