News headlines for “Human Population”, page 492
Officials Decry "Appalling Gaps" in Global Data on Women
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 19 (IPS) - The World Bank and U.S. government on Thursday each announced major new initiatives aimed at expanding knowledge on the experience of women around the world, while acknowledging that much remains to be done on filling the global “data gap” on women.
Women Rights Defenders Targeted in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 (IPS) - There has been an alarming increase over the past two years in violence against women human rights defenders and journalists in Mexico, according to women’s human rights organisations.
Malnutrition Implicated in Child Killer Epidemic
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Jul 19 (IPS) -
Parents wait anxiously outside a Phnom Penh hospital. Credit: Mike Hodgkinson/IPSHealth experts are blaming high malnutrition levels for an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) that has killed more than 54 children in impoverished Cambodia since April.
67 Minutes of Shame on African Icon Nelson Mandela’s Birthday
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jul 19 (IPS) - Wendy Hlophe* is still visibly grieving for her long-term friend, 28-year-old Sanna Supa, who was shot and killed outside her home in Braamficherville, a South African township, two weeks ago.
Côte d'Ivoire Law Offers Battered Women Little Protection
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Jul 19 (IPS) - A shiver ran down Habiba Kanaté's* spine when she read about a policeman shooting and killing his wife in Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire. "That could have been me," she said.
To Reduce Teen Pregnancies, Start with Educating Girls
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 18 (IPS) - Each year, 16 million girls aged 15-19 give birth. 50,000 of them die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. And 95 percent of those births occur in developing countries.
Family Planning Essential for Development
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jul 18 (IPS) - Improving family planning to avoid unwanted pregnancies in developing countries, as well as assuring girls’ access to education, and women’s participation in the economy, are essential components of a sound development policy, according to Western experts and African activists.
Death Stalks Pregnant Women in East Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
MAE SOT, Thailand, Jul 17 (IPS) - From a wooden, weather-beaten building on the edge of this border town, Mahn Mahn charts dangerous missions deep Myanmar (also Burma) for the 2,000-odd health workers under his wing.
Poverty Drives Child Labour
- Inter Press Service
PORT MORESBY, Jul 17 (IPS) - In an informal settlement of 10,000 people on the outskirts of Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby, Tembari Children’s Care – a new grassroots initiative – is providing protection, food and education to orphans and abandoned children who would otherwise join the high numbers of child labourers in this Melanesian country.
Pacific Coastal Fisheries in Dire Need of Protection
- Inter Press Service
PORT MORESBY, Jul 16 (IPS) - Coastal fisheries in Papua New Guinea, used primarily by local subsistence fisher folk, will face increasing pressure from climate change, compounding the twin problems of population growth and overfishing.
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