News headlines for “Human Population”, page 489
Kenyan Differences Melt With Gold
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 11 (IPS) - When Kenyan athlete David Lekuta Rudisha simultaneously became the first person ever to break the 1min 41sec mark in the 800m while also becoming the first person to set a world record at this year’s London Olympics on Thursday Aug. 9, he managed another first. He briefly united an ethnically divided nation.
Mexican Victims of Violence Take Aim Against U.S. Firearms
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Aug 11 (IPS) - “The United States should stop producing so many weapons, which cause us so much harm. That country also suffers from so much violence, as billions of dollars go into manufacturing guns.”
Women Now Have a Voice in Chile’s Press
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Aug 10 (IPS) - "We always dreamed of a ‘heroine’ who would not only denounce violence against women, but would also represent us in other spheres,” Kena Lorenzini, the director of Chile’s first feminist publication, told IPS.
“Latin America’s Miracle” - the Land of Invisible Inequality
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Aug 09 (IPS) - It’s Friday morning, and Carlos, an executive at a real estate firm in the Chilean capital, gets up knowing that he will knock off early that day, as he does at the end of every week, to enjoy the weekend in the family’s vacation apartment on the coast with his wife and three daughters.
Q&A: Microcredit Bank “Incorporates Women in the Benefits of Development”
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Aug 09 (IPS) - “Our raison d’etre is incorporating women in development, and especially in the benefits of development,” says Nora Castañeda, an economist who has headed the Banmujer bank in Venezuela since it was founded in 2001.
Rescuing an Art to Save a People
- Inter Press Service
CARAVIRI, Bolivia, Aug 07 (IPS) - Sitting on the floor, deep in concentration, Marta Llampa interlaces red and black threads that converge in sinuous shapes, gradually forming khurus or mythical creatures through a unique, age-old technique rescued from extinction by the Jalq'a people.
Elderly Find Few Places to Call Home
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Aug 07 (IPS) - Mr. Jayakumar (73), a philanthropic bachelor hailing from a prosperous industrial family in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, decided at the age of 70 that it was time to settle down.
Mexicans Migrate – Body and Soul
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Aug 06 (IPS) - Sergio Guerrero immigrated to the United States without documents in 2006 and returned to Mexico in 2010, converted to another religious faith. “I was Catholic, and there I met a lot of evangelicals, so I was reborn in Christ,” the 31-year-old father of three told IPS.
From the Ashes of Tragedy, Lessons for Disaster Management
- Inter Press Service
CHENNAI, Aug 04 (IPS) - At 4:30 a.m. on the morning of Jul. 30, sleeping passengers in carriage S 11 on the Chennai-bound Tamilnadu Express were awoken by a blazing fire, as the train approached the east coast town of Nellore, just two and a half hours shy of its final destination.
Operating in Rural Tanzania “To Save a Life”
- Inter Press Service
KIGOMA, Tanzania, Aug 03 (IPS) - At the Kakonko Health Centre, about 250 kilometres from the nearest hospital in Kigoma Region, Western Tanzania, assistant medical officer Abdu Mapinduzi prepares to operate on Joanitha, a young pregnant mother.
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