News headlines for “Human Population”, page 499
Parliamentarians Seek to Deliver Sexual Rights
- Inter Press Service
Lawmakers from 110 countries, representing all continents, pledged here last week to intensify efforts, individually and collectively, aiming to attain the goals on safeguarding people’s rights to sexual health and freedom to determine their reproductive choices. The goals were set at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in 1994 in Cairo.
Q&A: The World Must Learn From Smallholder Farmers
- Inter Press Service
As Africa's Sahel region faces a new food crisis, smallholder famers hold the key to making future development policies sustainable.
Climate Change and Family Planning - Twin Issues for LDCs
- Inter Press Service
The reproductive rights agenda, from improving women’s access to education to systematic family planning to reducing birth rates and combating poverty, has become a cornerstone of most industrialised nations’ development policies toward the least developed countries (LDCs), comprised primarily of sub-Saharan African states.
Fate Unites, Israel Separates
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of thousands of families - from Palestinians to Southeast Asian migrant workers to African refugees - struggle under Israeli policies that seek to limit the number of non-Jews within Israel and in the areas it occupies.
Chinese Women Step Forward in the Backwaters
- Inter Press Service
For years Gou Suqin had to rely on her husband’s meagre migrant’s income from the city to support their rural family. Now, following a 10,000 RMB (1,500 dollars) microcredit loan from UN Women, 50-year-old Gou runs a successful musk deer farm. She now earns 60,000 RMB (9,000 dollars) a year - or six times as much as her husband.
Rural Women in Peru Key to Adaptation of Seeds to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
For ages, rural women in the Peruvian highlands have been selecting and storing seeds, ensuring their preservation. But the authorities have failed to tap into this storehouse of knowledge and experience, despite the contributions it could make to the design of effective policies for adaptation to climate change, which poses a growing threat to the women’s livelihoods.
HIV-Positive Women in Argentina Mainly Infected by Stable Partners
- Inter Press Service
The immense majority of women diagnosed with HIV in Argentina in the last two years were infected through unprotected sex with their stable partners, a new report says.
South Africa’s ‘Traditional Courts Bill’ Impairs Rights of 12 Million Rural Women
- Inter Press Service
The Traditional Courts Bill currently under discussion in South Africa’s parliament and due to be enacted by the end of 2012 could undermine the basic rights of some of the country’s most vulnerable inhabitants: the 12 million women living in remote rural communities across the country.
ARGENTINA: How to Sustain Highest Pension Coverage in Region
- Inter Press Service
The Argentine pension system, renationalised in 2008, now covers more than 90 percent of people of retirement age, the highest coverage in Latin America. But analysts are concerned about its sustainability.
'More Indian Working Women Aborting Motherhood'
- Inter Press Service
A young professional in India’s burgeoning IT hub Gurgaon, a major satellite city of national capital New Delhi, Manideepa Moitra works as a software content writer not just to make a living but to secure a career in the demanding sector that catapulted India on the global outsourcing industry map.
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