News headlines for “Human Population”, page 474
Wrangling Begins Over New Sustainable Development Blueprint
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 26 (IPS) - As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) limp towards their target date of 2015, the United Nations is shifting its focus to another long-term action plan: a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
New Drugs Underused in Averting Maternal Deaths
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (IPS) - In most developing countries, where a woman gives birth still determines whether she lives or dies, despite the availability of inexpensive new medication that is proven to save lives.
Women Using ICTs to Change the World
- Inter Press Service
SAN SEBASTIÁN, Spain, Oct 26 (IPS) - New technologies can transform society, and the role of women in using these tools to promote change was clearly seen at the first ICT Congress for Peace in this city in northern Spain.
Q&A: Severe Birth Defects Soar in Post-War Iraq
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 26 (IPS) - A new study confirms what many Iraqi doctors have been saying for years – that there is a virtual epidemic of rare congenital birth defects in cities that suffered bombing and artillery and small arms fire in the U.S.-led attacks and occupations of the country.
Symbol of Native Culture to Be Bulldozed for World Cup
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 26 (IPS) - One victim of the remodelling of Brazil’s Maracaná football stadium in preparation for the World Cup is the old Museum of the Indian, where people from different indigenous groups have attempted to keep their culture alive in the heart of Rio de Janeiro.
Defying Foreclosures in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MÁLAGA, Spain, Oct 25 (IPS) - Shouting slogans against bank foreclosures, dozens of protesters in this southern Spanish city gathered Wednesday to prevent the eviction of a Moroccan family who couldn’t afford to meet their mortgage payments.
Sorting Out Mexico City’s Chaotic Transport System
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 25 (IPS) - Greater integration of public passenger transport is a major challenge facing the next government of the Mexican capital, one of the most traffic-congested cities in the world, if it wants to guarantee people the right to mobility.
Egypt Revolution Makes It Worse for Women
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 25 (IPS) - During the uprising that toppled Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak women stood shoulder to shoulder with men in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, pressing the revolution’s demands for freedom, justice and dignity. But those who hoped the revolution would make them equal partners in Egypt’s future claim they may be worse off now than under Mubarak’s authoritarian rule.
Entrepreneurs and Women: Keys to Growth in Africa
- Inter Press Service
DEAUVILLE, France, Oct 25 (IPS) - The international financial crash of the late 2000s created more than a global economic recession: it accentuated popular doubts about the paradigms on which our economies are built and prompted a closer look at two crucial drivers of economic growth: women and entrepreneurship.
Adultery Laws Unfairly Target Women, U.N. Says
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 24 (IPS) - When one of the Asian countries embraced Islamic Sharia law back in the 1990s, the rigidly conservative government threatened to enforce a provision that called for convicted adulterers to be stoned to death.
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