News headlines for “Human Population”, page 442
Waste Pickers in Colombia Earn Formal Recognition
- Inter Press Service
, May 02 (IPS) - Nora Padilla, one of the six winners of this year's Goldman environmental prize, dedicates her days to organising informal recyclers in the Colombian capital, where the city's eight million inhabitants are just now reluctantly starting to classify their garbage at source.
Ecuador’s Indigenous People Still Waiting to Be Consulted
- Inter Press Service
QUITO, May 02 (IPS) - The Constitution of Ecuador adopted in 2008 establishes a broad range of rights for indigenous peoples and nationalities, including the right to prior consultation, which gives them the opportunity to influence decisions that affect their lives.
From Rags to Penury
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 01 (IPS) - India's planners worry about ‘jobless growth', but perhaps nothing illustrates this phenomenon better than a policy of handing over the collection and disposal of the capital's refuse to large private corporations, leaving close to 50,000 ragpickers unemployed.
Giving Women in Zimbabwe’s Informal Sector Rights
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, May 01 (IPS) - Mollin Siyanda, 46, a single mother of three from Harare's low-income suburb of Hatcliffe, is scared of being arrested by the council police as she sells fruit, vegetables and second-hand clothes on the pavement of the city centre without a permit.
Women Forge a Space for Themselves in Latin American Labour Movement
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Apr 30 (IPS) - Misogyny is the word on the lips of women trade unionists in Latin America when asked what they have had to fight against to win spaces in the leadership bodies of labour unions in the region.
Unearthing Trinidad's Carib Ancestry
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 30 (IPS) - Ricardo Bharath-Hernandez, like most citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, has probably lost count of the millions of dollars being spent to renovate the Greek revival style "Red House" that serves as the parliament building in the oil-rich twin island republic.
Over 100 Million Women Lead Migrant Workers Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (IPS) - The face of migration is changing dramatically as women and girls now represent about half of the over 214 million migrants worldwide.
Older Women in Cuba Take Steps to Improve Quality of Life
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Apr 29 (IPS) - Paediatrician Grisel Navarro says she is "a different kind of retiree," because she still practises her profession, goes out and about and refuses to be "at the beck and call of her family's and everyone else's needs," something that diminishes quality of life for many Cuban women when they retire from work.
Post-Conflict Trauma Haunts Solomon Islands
- Inter Press Service
HONIARA, Solomon Islands, Apr 29 (IPS) - After ten years of working towards peace and reconciliation in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, following a five-year civil conflict known as the ‘Tensions' (1998-2003) which left 30,000 people displaced and hundreds unaccounted for, people now go about their daily lives in improved freedom and personal security. But below the surface, untreated post-conflict trauma continues to impact many individuals and communities.
U.N. Task Force Purges Stigmas on Sexual Rights
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 26 (IPS) - Ishita Chaudhry spent the past 36 hours listening to U.N. delegates discuss population growth and development. She noticed that on "controversial" topics, such as sexual and reproductive rights, young people's voices often get lost.
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