News headlines for “Human Population”, page 495
South Sudan Women Await Independence From Poverty
- Inter Press Service
One year after the formation of South Sudan, the country’s women say that independence has not resulted in the positive political, economic and social changes that they had hoped for.
Growing 'Entertainment' Industry Traps Nepali Girls
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Jul 08 (IPS) - Almost unnoticed, Nepal’s burgeoning adult entertainment industry has been drawing young girls away from being trafficked across the border to the fleshpots of India’s big cities.
South Africa’s National Health Insurance Sites Underfunded
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Jul 06 (IPS) - Experts say that underfunded pilot universal healthcare sites to be set up by South Africa as part of its proposed national health insurance may be doomed to fail as debate rages about how the move to more equitable healthcare will be funded.
Liberia’s Baby Blues – No Policy for Pregnant School Girls
- Inter Press Service
Gbarnga, LIBERIA, Jul 05 (IPS) - Patricia Kollie should be at school today but instead she is at home in Gbarnga, Liberia, pounding a pile of cassava leaves in a wooden mortar. Her entire body is slightly swollen. Her dress fits a little too snug at the stomach.
Libya Prepares an Advance of the Young
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Jul 05 (IPS) - On the eve of Libya’s historic elections for a General National Congress on Saturday, Jul. 7, the seaside capital’s bustling streets are lined with hundreds of campaign posters advertising electoral candidates - including those of women and youth - jockeying for a stake in their country’s future.
Liberia’s Baby Blues — No Policy for Pregnant School Girls
- Inter Press Service
Patricia Kollie should be at school today but instead she is at home in Gbarnga, Liberia, pounding a pile of cassava leaves in a wooden mortar. Her entire body is slightly swollen. Her dress fits a little too snug at the stomach.
Green Bricks Pave Future for Female Workers
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Jul 03 (IPS) - At first glance the smart young women in white overcoats, black rubber boots and protective face masks seem out of place in impoverished Bangladesh’s dirtiest industry – brick making.
Water and Slums Bright Spots in MDGs
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 02 (IPS) - An annual report card on the ambitious U.N.-led initiative known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) says that in three areas - poverty, slums and water – the goals have been met ahead of the 2015 deadline, but persistent gaps remain, notably in the critical area of maternal health.
Community Volunteers Convince Ugandan Families to Have Fewer Children
- Inter Press Service
It is midmorning at the Kanungu Health Centre IV and the queue of patients grows as more people start to arrive for treatment at this rural facility more than 400 kilometres outside the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
Treatment of Gays No Better in South Africa
- Inter Press Service
When Junior Mayema boarded a plane to South Africa from his native Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010, he cried tears of joy because he was finally heading to a country where he could live openly as a gay man.
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