News headlines for “Human Population”, page 525
U.N. Predicts One Billionth Tourist Arrival in 2012
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations, which commemorated the birth of the world's seven billionth baby last October, is predicting the arrival of the one billionth tourist later this year - perhaps in Europe, the United States, South America or Asia.
Half of All Abortions Now Unsafe, Study Finds
- Inter Press Service
The proportion of abortions deemed unsafe rose from 44 percent in 1995 to almost half (49 percent) in 2008, according to a new study released Thursday.
MEXICO: Even Educated Young Women Face Poor, Jobless Future
- Inter Press Service
The year 2012 started off with little promise for workers in Mexico, with analysts projecting job losses and wages below subsistence levels.
Report Exposes 'Survival Sex Trade' in Post-Earthquake Haiti
- Inter Press Service
Eighteen-year-old 'Kettlyne', a Haitian orphan living in the rubble-strewn Croix Deprez camp — one of the many remaining tent-cities that houses refugees from the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake — is unable to feed her three-year-old daughter.
Haitian Diaspora Tests Brazil's International Solidarity
- Inter Press Service
Brazil, for decades a source of migrants to the United States and Europe, is now facing its own humanitarian challenge: applying the international solidarity it trumpets to the Haitians who are arriving in the thousands, in search of a better life.
HAITI: Displaced Mark a Tragedy That Could Have Been Yesterday
- Inter Press Service
For two years now, since her husband was one of the estimated 230,000 Haitians killed in the massive earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010 and she and her three children became homeless, little has changed for Dieulia St. Juste.
A Touch of Spring for LGBT Arabs
- Inter Press Service
With a yearning for human rights playing a vital role in the Arab revolts; putting an end to discriminatory LGBT laws may determine how the future democratic process unfolds.
CANADA: U.N. to Probe Missing and Murdered Native Women
- Inter Press Service
As a United Nations committee initiates an inquiry procedure into the alarming number of missing and murdered Native women across Canada, human rights groups are hoping that an on-the- ground investigation by the international body will finally help stem systematic violence against Native women.
SRI LANKA: Female Unemployment Rises With Education
- Inter Press Service
Every weekend it has been the same ritual for so many months. Buying the newspaper, going through the classified and the employment sections inch by column inch, marking job offers that could offer a chance, even remotely.
Double Sentence: AIDS in a Senegalese Prison
- Inter Press Service
Amadou* takes in a long, deep breath, clears his throat and steps to the front of the room. He turns to look out at a familiar group of faces sitting on long wooden benches here at the Camp Penal maximum-security prison in Dakar. This is the last in a group of 150 inmates Amadou has been speaking with today. He’s tired, but remains focused.
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