News headlines for “Human Population”, page 460
Grandmothers Taking the Lead Against Female Genital Mutilation?
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Dic 28 (IPS) - In the southern Senegal village of Kael Bessel, female genital mutilation is no longer a taboo subject. Sexagenarian Fatoumata Sabaly speaks freely about female circumcision and girls' rights with her friends.
Fear of Rape Stalks Indian Women
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Dic 28 (IPS) - While a 23-year-old woman battles for life in a New Delhi hospital after she was gang raped and brutalised on a moving bus in India's prosperous national capital earlier this month, women across the nation say they live in constant fear of sexual assault.
Indigenous Chileans Still Fighting Pinochet-Era Highway Project
- Inter Press Service
PUERTO SAAVEDRA, Chile, Dic 27 (IPS) - For more than two decades, Mapuche indigenous people in the Chilean region of Araucanía have been fighting the construction of the Ruta Costera (Coastal Highway), a megaproject initially conceived during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) which has already caused significant archeological and cultural losses and damages.
Gangs Back Plan for Violence-Free Districts in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Dic 26 (IPS) - Salvadoran youth gang leaders have accepted a proposal to declare 10 municipalities free of violence – a bold plan that has run up against the mistrust of vast segments of society with regard to the gangs and their aim of reinsertion in society.
Kenya’s Growing Luxury Housing Market Not for Locals
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Dic 26 (IPS) - Despite the development boom in state-of-the-art luxury homes in Kenya, the country's upper class has fallen on hard times and can no longer afford them, according to economic experts here. Instead, Kenya's formerly wealthy have now become part of the continent's growing middle class.
Bioshields Best Defence Against Disasters
- Inter Press Service
PORT BLAIR, India, Dic 26 (IPS) - In commemoration of the eighth anniversary of the Asian tsunami, Wednesday was a day of prayer and mourning across the Andaman Nicobar Islands – located at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea – and south India's coastal Tamil Nadu state, two areas that suffered thousands of casualties on that fateful day.
Local Communities Stake Claim in Protecting Disaster-Prone Asia
- Inter Press Service
PAGER JURANG, Indonesia, Dic 25 (IPS) - From her half-built house, Ari Haryani takes a few steps to reach a freshly cemented path that snakes through the narrow, dusty walkways of this resettlement village. The path offers the 36-year-old a route to safety in case the nearby Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, erupts.
Fresh Air for the Rio Olympics
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dic 24 (IPS) - Environmental authorities in this southeastern Brazilian city are installing more air quality control stations in the locations where competitions are to be held during the 2016 Olympic Games, so that air pollution will not hurt the athletes' performance.
Thousands Orphaned by Poverty in Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Dic 23 (IPS) - Seventeen-year-old Afzal is an unusual orphan. Though his father died many years ago, his mother is still alive and living with Afzal's grandparents and younger siblings in a house not far from the orphanage where the boy has spent most of his teenage years.
Funding Shortage Thwarts Reconstruction Efforts
- Inter Press Service
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka, Dic 23 (IPS) - The landscape in northern Sri Lanka's former war zone can change abruptly from the ordinary to the surreal.
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