News headlines for “Human Population”, page 454
‘Marks of Manhood’ Fuel Gender-Based Violence
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (IPS) - Some of the most harrowing cases of gender-based violence Kathryn Bolkovac came across while working as a U.N. human rights investigator in Bosnia involved a perpetrator dubbed "the Doctor" by the women and girls he abused.
Power Sharing a “Dangerous Concept” for Kenya’s Democracy
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Feb 25 (IPS) - Days ahead of Kenya's general elections, the country's former deputy Minister of Information Koigi Wamwere has slammed calls for power-sharing among minority ethnic groups in the next government, calling it a "dangerous concept".
Senegal Growing Up Over Marriage
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Feb 25 (IPS) - When Abdoulaye Ba heard his local Imam in Dakar, Senegal, speaking out against child marriage, he found that the idea was not very palatable to him. As head of his family, he had intended to marry off his three teenage daughters.
Malian Refugees Wanting to Return Home Face Difficult Choices
- Inter Press Service
NIAMEY, Feb 23 (IPS) - When northern Malian refugees fled their country for Niger in 2012, they expected they would be able to return home shortly afterwards. But despite the armed intervention by the French army in the West African nation, few of the 50,000 Niger-based refugees are ready to leave for home just yet.
India Undercuts Tribal Rights
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (IPS) - Over a decade ago, the Dongria Kondh tribe – tucked away in the Niyamgiri hills, a mountain range in the eastern Indian state of Orissa – found itself under attack.
No Rest for Weary Massage Workers
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Feb 22 (IPS) - Times are tough in this Southeast Asian nation of 14 million people, where over 68 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. Formal employment is hard to come by and many workers find themselves drifting in the murky waters of the "informal" market, where wages are unregulated and labour laws are seldom honoured.
‘Justice is Blind – But Not in the Case of Gender Violence’
- Inter Press Service
DURBAN, South Africa, Feb 20 (IPS) - On Tuesday, Feb. 19, famous South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius was charged with premeditated murder, with prosecutors arguing the athlete had "put on his prosthetic legs, walked seven metres and fired four shots through a locked bathroom door," killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day.
OP-ED: Making Cities Safe for Women and Girls
- Inter Press Service
DUBLIN, Feb 19 (IPS) - There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: This is not happening in my backyard.
Female Journalists Walk on Eggshells in Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Feb 14 (IPS) - The year was 1998 and porters at the wholesale vegetable market in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo had gone on strike, virtually suspending vegetable distribution in the city and its suburbs.
Land Is Life, and It’s Slipping Away
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Feb 14 (IPS) - Nean Narin, a humble man and father of three children, says his family is going hungry.
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