News headlines for “Human Population”, page 458
A Hundred Killed, A Community Cornered
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 14 (IPS) - "I want justice," says Shukria Jamali, 20. "But I wouldn't want my worst enemies to feel the intense pain I am feeling now."
Water Summit to Focus on Resolving Scarcities in Mideast
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (IPS) - Amidst a growing water crisis in the predominantly arid Middle East and North Africa (MENA), some of the world's most influential water experts will meet next week at the International Water Summit (IWS) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) to look for sustainable solutions.
Slum Dwellers Say "No" to Blood Money
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jan 10 (IPS) - With less than two months before Kenyans head to the polls for what is shaping up to be the most competitive and polarised general election in the country's history, many fear that this East African country of over 40 million has not seen the last of electoral violence.
Education Fights Militants and Military
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 10 (IPS) - Eight-year-old Muhammad Akram was forced to quit school when he was in the second grade, when the Taliban destroyed the small, government-run school that he and his brother had been attending.
Unemployed Youth Turn to Drugs
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Jan 09 (IPS) - The air is heavy with the smell of marijuana as Gibrilla (23) expertly rolls a large joint at the Members of Blood (M.O.B) gang base in a poor neighbourhood of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
U.S. Immigration System’s Cost, Reach “Unprecedented”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 08 (IPS) - The United States government is spending more on immigration enforcement each year than it is on all other federal law-enforcement agencies combined, according to the first comprehensive look at how the country's sprawling immigration complex has grown over the past decade.
New Push for U.S. to Ratify Major Women's Treaty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 08 (IPS) - The United States continues to be in the dubious company of six countries that have either refused or are reluctant to ratify the landmark U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
A River Runs Dry in Tanzania
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 08 (IPS) - Avelina Elias Mkenda, a 52-year-old small-scale farmer in the Mbarali district of Tanzania's southwestern Mbeya region, can sense a change in her environment.
Yemeni Women Struggle to Step Forward
- Inter Press Service
, Jan 05 (IPS) - Yemeni women have played an integral role in the protests against ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year regime last year. But despite the country's upcoming political ‘National Dialogue' - brokered by Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and intended to bring together a cross-section of Yemeni constituencies - females still face a wall of discriminatory laws and practices, and a status quo willing to enforce them.
New Feminism Tears Down Walls in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 04 (IPS) - Anarkia Boladona has turned the streets of Brazil into billboards against domestic violence. As a self-titled feminist political graffiti artist, she represents a new trend in women's rights that seeks less academic and more daring and popular avenues of expression.
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