News headlines for “Human Population”, page 469
Q&A: “War Helped Unify Angola”
- Inter Press Service
LUANDA, Nov 19 (IPS) - A visitor to Angola might be surprised at the calm surrounding Angola's accelerated rehabilitation and construction of infrastructure a decade after the end of so many years of war, and at the lack of after-effects like ethnic violence, armed gangs, or the settling of accounts.
‘Lifestyle Diseases’ Plague Indian Women
- Inter Press Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Nov 19 (IPS) - Sreelakshmi, an office executive in a major diagnostic laboratory in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of the southern Indian state of Kerala, ends her 11-hour working day to return home at night to a mountain of domestic chores.
Fixing the ‘Silent’ Sanitation Crisis
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Nov 18 (IPS) - Organisers of this year's World Toilet Day, which falls on Nov. 19, are using the slogan ‘I give a shit – do you?' to break the silence around the crucial issue of sanitation and remind the international community that 2.5 billion people around the world don't have access to clean and private toilets.
Teach a Woman to Farm…And She Creates Jobs
- Inter Press Service
DES MOINES, Iowa, USA, Nov 16 (IPS) - Give a woman a hand-out and you feed her for a day. But teach her to farm, and how to add value to her product, and you feed her and her family for a lifetime. And if she happens to be Nigerian smallholder farmer Susan Godwin, she in turn will also provide jobs for her community and become a national food hero.
Thinking Outside the Stall on World Toilet Day
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15 (IPS) - When the United Nations commemorates World Toilet Day next week, there will be a lingering question in the minds of activists: how best can water and sanitation be given high priority in the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the U.N.'s post-2015 economic agenda?
How African Men are Changing Traditional Beliefs
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Nov 15 (IPS) - Charles Kayongo of Uganda is a father of two girls aged five and three. And even though age-old traditions among his ethnic group, the Baganda, say a man should have an unlimited number of children and a son as an heir, Kayongo refuses to have more children.
Soy and Sugar Cane Fuel Native Land Conflicts in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 15 (IPS) - The threat of mass suicide by native Guaraní-Kaiowá people in southwest Brazil brought to light a new formula for worsening conflicts over indigenous territory: the expansion of the cultivation of soy beans and sugar cane, two top export crops.
Some U.S. Farmworkers Face “Inhuman Conditions”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (IPS) - A widely respected advocate for U.S. farmworker rights received a prestigious award on Capitol Hill here Wednesday, using the occasion to highlight pending state legislation that could significantly improve lives and working conditions that some have likened to modern-day slavery.
Family Planning Falters Despite Treaty Commitments
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14 (IPS) - Since the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the United Nations has consistently maintained that family planning is a basic human right to be exercised by all - not just the wealthy and otherwise privileged.
Family Planning Skips Millions in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Nov 14 (IPS) - Thirty-year-old Shahida Saleem, who was not educated past the tenth grade, is a mother of two, living with her family in Karachi. Six months ago she suffered a miscarriage and her doctor, concerned about her anaemic condition, advised her to space out her next pregnancy by taking contraceptives.
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