News headlines for “Human Population”, page 488
Disputes Arise Over Cambodia’s Killer Illness
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Aug 17 (IPS) - The deaths of dozens of Cambodian children in recent months from an initially undiagnosed disease has highlighted the difficult balancing act between informing the public and potentially provoking panic.
Rapes of Young Girls in DRC Still Unpunished
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Aug 16 (IPS) - A rash of recent rape cases has sparked local criticism of the weakness of the justice system in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where inadequate resources and simple incompetence mean survivors of sexual violence hold little hope of obtaining justice.
Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper Hunger Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 (IPS) - Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe.
In Peace, Palestinian Women Under Attack
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Aug 16 (IPS) - After the brutal murder of a Palestinian woman in late July in a busy Bethlehem marketplace, local human rights groups are pushing for stronger reforms to stem violence against women in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Quotas in Brazil’s Public Universities to Democratise Education
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 15 (IPS) - A new law about to enter into effect in Brazil will reserve half of all admission slots in public universities for students who attended public primary and secondary schools. But the measure, aimed at expanding access to the country’s best universities, will require structural reforms.
Bangladesh 'Fixes' Grameen Microcredit
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Aug 15 (IPS) - Laboni Vhoumik’s lingerie manufacturing unit in the Gopai village of Noakhali district, about 180 km outside the capital, is a forceful argument in favour of the Grameen Bank microcredit model that fosters female entrepreneurship and also relies on it.
Crocs and Humans Clash in Shrinking Space
- Inter Press Service
PORT BLAIR, Aug 15 (IPS) - Twenty two-year-old Ajay Kallu, hailing from the Bakultala village in northern Andamans, was devoured by an estuarine crocodile when he waded waist deep into a creek to fish on the morning of Aug. 1, marking the fifth fatal crocodile attack in 28 months in the remote Islands that lie at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.
Children Treated as Lab Rats
- Inter Press Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Aug 14 (IPS) - Four-year-old Deepak Yadav, a mentally disabled boy from Indore city in the Indian state Madhya Pradesh, was being treated for stomach problems at Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, a government hospital for children attached to the M. G. M. Medical College.
Improving Public Transport in Dangerous Guatemala City
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 14 (IPS) - “Service is definitely improving. Transmetro is good quality and Transurbano is using the prepaid system, which means they can’t charge you extra,” said Manolo Contreras, one of the thousands of users of the public transit system in the Guatemalan capital, which is under renovation.
Families of ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ Victims Still Struggling
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Aug 11 (IPS) - Sachiko Masumura (79) was standing just two kilometres away from the hypocentre of Little Boy, the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan over six and a half decades ago.
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