News headlines for “Human Population”, page 457
Never-Ending Case Arises Again
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Jan 23 (IPS) - P?nar Selek, a Turkish sociologist who has on three occasions been tried and acquitted over a fatal explosion in Istanbul more than 14 years ago, is being taken to court again Jan. 24.
Malawi’s President Faces a Crisis of Confidence
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Jan 22 (IPS) - She has taken a personal pay cut, promised reforms, resumed aid flows from Western donors and put her predecessor's private jet up for sale.
Law Makes it Honourable to Kill
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Jan 22 (IPS) - "Before she was murdered, she wasn't alive. We'll tell her story backwards from her murder to her birth"…so begins a powerful new song by critically acclaimed Palestinian hip-hop band DAM to draw attention to the continuing murder of Palestinian women by male relatives declaring that "family honour" has been damaged by alleged sexual indiscretions.
Senegal Seeks to Curb the Baby Boom
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Jan 21 (IPS) - A 25-year-old mother of five hailing from Senegal's eastern Tambacounda province believes that contraceptives damage the womb and cause health problems in the long term, such as a rise in blood pressure and chronic headaches.
Some Call for Death - Others Call for Justice
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (IPS) - On a chilly Wednesday evening, exactly a month after a young woman was gang-raped and brutalised on a moving bus in New Delhi, hundreds of sombre citizens gathered at a candlelight protest in India's national capital.
Q&A: “There is Nothing Worse Than Holding a Dying Woman in Your Arms”
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (IPS) - Despite staggering advances in medical science and technology over the years, women around the world continue to suffer gravely as a result of inadequate access to basic reproductive health services.
OP-ED: Organic Farming Movement Marginal but Growing Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (IPS) - Despite the growing worldwide demand for organic food, clothing and other products, the area of land certified as organic still makes up just 0.9 percent of global agricultural land, with 37 million hectares being farmed organically.
Young Cubans Take a Critical Look at Fatherhood
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jan 16 (IPS) - While more and more young men in Cuba today are rising above cultural prejudices that condition their role as fathers, many continue to conform to traditional styles of fatherhood, often reproducing negative patterns of neglect and abandonment, with serious repercussions for the whole family in light of the country's economic and legal situation.
Iraqi Women Seek a New Liberation
- Inter Press Service
BAGHDAD, Jan 16 (IPS) - From full literacy declared in the seventies, Iraq is down to 40 percent literacy for women. From the first woman prime minister and the first woman judge in the Middle East in 1959, Iraq has slipped to a place where an abnormal number of widows struggle, and where child marriages are on the rise. Hanaa Edwar is putting up a fight to win Iraqi women their freedoms again.
Digging for Water, But Striking Oil
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, Jan 16 (IPS) - The volatile politics of the Middle East have long been dominated by the fluctuating fortunes of a single commodity: oil.
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