News headlines for “Human Population”, page 501
While Men Go Drinking, Women Go Fishing
- Inter Press Service
Climate change may have led to declining water levels in Genda Village in Zambia’s Eastern Province, but Mercy Mwanza and the women here discovered there was a positive side to it and found a new way to earn a living.
Prisoners' Rights Still Absent in Argentina under Democracy
- Inter Press Service
Nearly 29 years after the demise of the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina, successive democratic governments have failed to find a humane way of running the prison system. Preventable deaths, torture and appalling conditions for inmates continue to be reported.
Calls for Angola to Investigate Abuse of Congolese Migrants
- Inter Press Service
The Angolan government is being urged to carry out a thorough and independent investigation into allegations of sexual and physical abuse by its security forces against Congolese migrants.
Parliamentarians Track Progress on Reproductive Rights
- Inter Press Service
Have women around the world become more empowered in their reproductive health and rights over the past 18 years? This is one of the questions that some 300 parliamentarians from around the world will be examining when they meet in Istanbul, Turkey, this week for the Fifth International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) programme of action.
Buenos Aires Offers Same-Sex Marriage to Foreign Couples
- Inter Press Service
Foreign non-residents, gay or straight, can now get married in the Argentine capital, thanks to a resolution that removed bureaucratic obstacles and streamlined the procedure.
Buenos Aires Offers Same-Sex Marriage to Foreign Couples
- Inter Press Service
Foreign non-residents, gay or straight, can now get married in the Argentine capital, thanks to a resolution that removed bureaucratic obstacles and streamlined the procedure.
Buenos Aires Offers Same-Sex Marriage to Foreign Couples
- Inter Press Service
Foreign non-residents, gay or straight, can now get married in the Argentine capital, thanks to a resolution that removed bureaucratic obstacles and streamlined the procedure.
Q&A: How Sex Education Programs Can Shape a Better Future
- Inter Press Service
In Latin American countries and in the Caribbean, where income disparities are among the greatest in the world, too many people often lack access to comprehensive health services and information needed to live healthy lives.
Caught Between Diarrhoea Bugs and Arsenic
- Inter Press Service
Caught between arsenic contaminated groundwater and diarrhoea-causing microbes in its ponds and rivers, achieving the millennium development goal of providing access to safe drinking water for its 160 million people by 2015 is a tough call for Bangladesh.
Cuban Activists Defend Sexual Rights as Human Rights
- Inter Press Service
The Fifth Cuban Day Against Homophobia focused on recognising and including sexual rights as human rights, a cause increasingly advocated by activists demanding respect for sexual diversity in this Caribbean island nation.
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