News headlines for “Human Population”, page 524
U.S.: Forced Marriages Still an Ugly Secret
- Inter Press Service
Two years ago, 40-year-old Vidya Sri decided to leave the devastating marriage her parents had forced her into nearly two decades ago. Alone for the first time, she began an earnest quest for support groups, women's organisations or service providers who might help her in the healing process.
Senior Management Heads Roll at World Body
- Inter Press Service
As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continues his search for a new team of senior managers for his second five-year term in office which began Jan. 1, two more heads have rolled at the world body.
LEBANON: Could a New Civil Law Unify a Divided Society?
- Inter Press Service
Odette Klysinska, a Catholic French native, sits in her living room in an affluent neighbourhood in Beirut, clutching her will in one hand, shocked to learn that it is no longer legally valid in the country she now calls home.
JAMAICA: 'Mama P' Faces Prejudice, Economic Challenges
- Inter Press Service
Running on promises of job creation, economic growth and wider stakeholder consultations, Jamaica's most popular politician and the country's first female prime minister Portia Simpson Miller swept to power in a victory almost no one had predicted.
SRI LANKA: Poorest Still Go Hungry
- Inter Press Service
Experts agree that Sri Lanka's free pre and postnatal clinics across the island nation have helped bring infant mortality down to 15 per 1,000 live births and the under-five mortality rate to 21 per 1,000 live births.
SWITZERLAND: Resistance Rises to Asylum Seekers
- Inter Press Service
Switzerland saw a 45 percent increase in asylum requests compared in 2011 to the year before. The country struggles to accommodate the new asylum seekers while efforts to put up new centres face fierce resistance by local people.
MALAWI: Street Vendors Lose Customers after Stripping Women Naked
- Inter Press Service
A campaign to stop people buying merchandise from street vendors is gaining momentum in Malawi’s main cities of Lilongwe, Blantyre and Mzuzu after the small-scale traders went on a rampage undressing women and girls wearing trousers, leggings, shorts and mini-skirts.
U.N. 'Outraged' at Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers in Haiti
- Inter Press Service
The Caribbean nation of Haiti, still struggling to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake, is once again trying to cope with the sexual abuse of minors by U.N. peacekeepers - for the third time in five years.
JAPAN: Tsunami Brings Sea Change to Tohoku
- Inter Press Service
Yumi Goto, 60, lives with her husband in a temporary shelter on a windy hill that overlooks vast stretches of tsunami-devastated seacoast where her home was once located.
INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly
- Inter Press Service
Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea.
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