News headlines for “Human Population”, page 491
Trading Across the Line of Control
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Jul 30 (IPS) - As part of recent confidence building measures aimed at minimising tensions between India and Pakistan, which arose largely due to conflicting claims over Kashmir, the two countries have decided to make the Valley an economic bridge, rather than a bone of contention.
Schoolgirls Beat Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 28 (IPS) - Far from fears that female education is on the decline after the Taliban campaign against girls’ schools, female students outclassed their male counterparts in the secondary school examination for 2012.
Punish Those Carrying Out FGM, Say Côte d'Ivoire Campaigners
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Jul 27 (IPS) - Nine women in the northern Côte d'Ivoire town of Katiola have been convicted for carrying out female genital mutilation – the first time that a 1998 law banning FGM has been applied.
Papua New Guinea Casts Wide Net Against Malaria
- Inter Press Service
PORT MORESBY, Jul 26 (IPS) - In Papua New Guinea, a Pacific Island nation located south of the equator, 90 percent of the population is at risk of malaria and 1.9 million cases are reported every year. But, according to a recent medical study, a programme to distribute long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets to every district in the country has dramatically reduced malaria infections.
Bolivia’s Indigenous Women Seek the Political Kingdom
- Inter Press Service
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, Jul 26 (IPS) - A growing number of Bolivia's indigenous women are participating in politics, ready to break the barriers of gender and ethnicity.
Security Gaps Fuel Cote d'Ivoire Prison Escapes
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Jul 26 (IPS) - Eliane Negui knew just what to do when she got word that a group of inmates had escaped from Abidjan’s main prison, MACA, earlier this month. After all, the 24-year-old, who has lived across a dirt road from the facility for nine years, had witnessed the same scenario just two months before.
In the Pursuit of Education: Burkina Faso’s School for Shepherds
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Jul 26 (IPS) - Salou Bandé is proud to stand at the front of the only classroom in the village of Bénnogo, 90 kilometres north of the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou, sharing his knowledge with his students. He is part of an initiative to improve education for nomadic children in the West African country.
Child Rape on the Rise in Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 23 (IPS) - A spate of child rape cases in Sri Lanka has angered child rights activists and moved the government to consider tightening the relevant laws and making the offence punishable with the death sentence.
KYRGYZSTAN: Rape Trial Spotlights Women’s Plight
- Inter Press Service
BISHKEK, Jul 20 (IPS) - Allegations that a member of Kyrgyzstan's KGB-successor agency organised the brutal rape of his wife have outraged women’s rights activists in Bishkek. But what rights defenders call an ordinary crime is having an extraordinary effect because of the victim’s response: she pressed charges.
Athletes Wither Under Government Apathy
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Jul 20 (IPS) - He dreamed of one day running on international athletic tracks and worked hard for seven long years to make this a reality.
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