News headlines for “Human Population”, page 528
Moving Towards a Food-Secure Ghana
- Inter Press Service
In Dundo village in Nyankpala district, Northern Ghana, 10 women are busy weeding a rice field on a piece of land donated to them by the village chief.
ARGENTINA: Things Slowly Getting Better for Transgender People
- Inter Press Service
Transvestites and transsexuals in Argentina, who were among the most marginalised minority populations, have seen respect for their rights grow in recent years, especially since same-sex marriage became legal in this country a year and a half ago.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Waiting for the 'Heavens to Weep'
- Inter Press Service
Duduzile Sibanda takes a break from preparing her long stretch of land for her maize crop in rural Mberengwa, in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province. She wipes her brow under the scorching sun and looks upwards. The sparse clouds are a cause of concern as she studies the sky and wonders aloud when the 'heavens will weep.'
Mass Tragedy Feared as Closure of MEK Camp Looms
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration and the United Nations are struggling to convince the leadership of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group with cult-like characteristics, to vacate a camp in Iraq and allow residents to move to another location in the country or risk the lives of as many as 3,200 people.
KENYA: A Shelter for Safe Delivery
- Inter Press Service
The Garissa Maternal Shelter in North Eastern Province, Kenya is the only such facility in an area with the country’s highest maternal mortality rate. At 1,000 deaths per 100,000 live births, it is almost double the country’s average.
INDIA: ‘Rape’ Stands in the way of Love
- Inter Press Service
A few days after his wedding in 2008, Imran* was thrown behind bars in Srinagar’s central jail for the alleged abduction and rape of his wife Shafeen. Shafeen denied the charge against her newlywed husband. It was her parents, furious that the couple married against their wishes, who ensured that the young bridegroom languished in prison for two years, until he was bailed out in 2010.
MALAWI: Women’s Education The Path to The Presidency
- Inter Press Service
On an elegant veranda adorned with a red carpet, Malawi’s Vice President Joyce Banda recalls how her childhood friend Chrissie Mtokoma was always top of their class and how she struggled to beat her. But now decades later Banda is a likely contender for the country’s presidency in 2014, while Mtokoma lives in poverty.
SOUTH SUDAN: Women Aim to Protect Their Rights in a Young State
- Inter Press Service
As South Sudan maps out its economic future at the South Sudan International Engagement Conference (IEC) this week in Washington, women from the new country called on donors to invest in projects that ensure women benefit equally from development plans.
NIGERIA: Fearing the Floods - Sleeping with One Eye Open
- Inter Press Service
The women of Makoko, a low-lying slum close to the Lagos Lagoon along Nigeria’s Atlantic coast, always sleep with one eye open. Many live in fear that when they go to sleep at night they will wake to flooded homes and business.
CLIMATE CHANGE: City Apartheid Built Turns Green
- Inter Press Service
Something unusual is happening in Atlantis. Created in the 1970s to fulfill the apartheid government's agenda to evict 'coloured' South Africans from Cape Town, Atlantis has always been best known as the city that apartheid built.
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