News headlines for “Human Population”, page 477
Women Are the New 'Emerging Market'
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Oct 12 (IPS) - Empowering women in the business world is not only a smart political decision, but also makes good economic sense.
Brazil’s Gender Quota Law Off to Underwhelming Start
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 12 (IPS) - Brazil’s new law requiring that 30 percent of candidates must be women made a less than impressive debut in Sunday’s municipal elections, although female candidates for mayor made better headway than women running for town councils.
Rural Women in Peru Cope “Where Life Is Very Sad”
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Oct 12 (IPS) - When the crops in her rural highlands community in southern Peru were covered with a thick layer of ice one night, Felícitas Quispe, 43, organised her neighbours to make an effort to keep people from starving to death.
India Ignoring Coastal Biodiversity - NGOs
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Oct 12 (IPS) - Indian civil society organisations see in the 11th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), underway in this south Indian city, a rare opportunity to highlight alleged neglect of biodiversity along the country’s extensive coastal and marine areas.
Girls Determined to Fight Guns With Books
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Oct 12 (IPS) - Shazia Begum, one of three girls injured in the attack on the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai says the Taliban had sought to silence a very influential schoolgirl.
Where Drugs Abound – and Syringes to Fight AIDS Are Scarce
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 11 (IPS) - In northern Mexico, one of the areas in the country hit hardest by drug trafficking, there are not enough syringes to protect intravenous drug users from HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.
U.N. Launches Global Campaign to Abolish Child Marriages
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 11 (IPS) - The United Nations has launched a global campaign to abolish an anachronistic social practice still prevalent in some communities around the world: child marriages.
Reduce Poverty in Africa – Educate a Girl
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 11 (IPS) - While in the last decade an additional 52 million of sub-Saharan Africa’s children enrolled in primary schools, with girl’s enrolment increasing from 54 percent to 74 percent, a large majority of girls - 16 million – are still being denied access to education.
Report Says Forced Evictions on the Rise in China
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Oct 11 (IPS) - A rapid construction boom in China has led to a rise in people being forcibly removed from their homes and land, according to a leading rights group.
Child Marriage Defies Laws in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Oct 11 (IPS) - Social activists in Nepal agree that the one reason why this impoverished country will miss the gender-linked Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations is the persistence of child marriage.
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