News headlines for “Human Population”, page 483
Fighting for a Free Press in Sudan
- Inter Press Service
KHARTOUM, Sep 15 (IPS) - In Sudan’s newspaper district in Khartoum East, dozens of people sit beneath the trees sipping tea or reading newspapers. Most are journalists who once worked for the 10 newspapers that were either forced closed by the country’s security services or because of economic constraints that resulted after the government raised printing taxes in an attempt to prevent the media from reporting on anti-government demonstrations.
Cuba Faces Challenge of Aging Population
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 14 (IPS) - “We age much more quickly than we learn how to,” says Juan Carlos Alfonso, director of the Population and Housing Census that begins to be carried out on Saturday, Sept. 15 in Cuba. The question of aging is on many minds in this country, where important social progress has been made but acute economic problems persist.
U.N. Doubles Down on Slashing Child Mortality by 2015
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (IPS) - While the global community made progress in reducing under-five child mortality to below seven million per year, it risks failing to reach the global targets set for 2015 if action is not scaled up, according to a new report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF.
World Needs to Build a Culture of Peace, Says Ex-Envoy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 12 (IPS) - Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed, says the preamble to the constitution of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Ecotourism Helps Amazon Jungle Communities Survive
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCIÓN DEL QUIQUIVEY, Bolivia, Sep 12 (IPS) - The Tsimane Mosetene people in Bolivia’s Amazon jungle region have found a tool to preserve their habitat and way of life: a community ecotourism project that won a United Nations-sponsored international award.
"Two Children May Have Died for You to Have Your Mobile Phone”
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Sep 12 (IPS) - "It’s possible that two children died so that you could have that mobile phone,” says Jean-Bertin, a 34-year-old Congolese activist who wants to end the “absolute silence” around the crimes committed in his country to exploit strategic raw materials like coltan.
Polygamy Throttles Women in Senegal
- Inter Press Service
‘Misoprostol - Must for Reducing Maternal Mortality’
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Sep 12 (IPS) - “I can’t imagine life without misoprostol,” says Dr. Azra Ahsan, a gynaecologist and obstetrician who has, for more than a decade, been using the controversial drug to stop women from bleeding to death after delivery.
Taliban Need No Education
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 07 (IPS) - Samina Afridi, a lecturer at the University of Peshawar, regrets that down history the leaders of the Pashtun (also Pakhtun) tribes have conspired to keep them away from education and literacy. The Taliban are only the latest example.
Informal Sector Work Survives Economic Boom in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 06 (IPS) - Behind “yerba mate”, a caffeinated herbal brew that is popular in Argentina and neighbouring countries, lies a shameful reality: the dismal labour and living conditions of the workers who harvest the leaves of the bush used to make the infusion.
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