News headlines for “Human Population”, page 531
ISRAEL: Eritreans Flee From Dictatorship to Detention
- Inter Press Service
Standing across the street from the American embassy in Tel Aviv, more than 200 Eritrean asylum seekers chanted 'Yes to justice! Yes to humanity!', and demanded international intervention to stop torture camps in the Egyptian Sinai. Protests by African asylum seekers in Israel are growing, in the face of increasingly tough policies by the Israelis.
Lessons from the Andes on Budgeting to Close the Gender Gap
- Inter Press Service
Three countries in South America's Andean region, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, have a great deal to teach and share with those meeting in Busan, South Korean this week to discuss, among other things, how to make sure that development aid incorporates a gender focus in order to be effective.
‘Nothing at Busan for African Women, Children’
- Inter Press Service
Although there has been considerable progress towards reducing maternal and infant mortality, millions of women and children in Africa are still in need of better health services, food and sanitation.
SPAIN: Self-Financed Communities 'A Tool for Building Trust'
- Inter Press Service
On the first Sunday of every month, Abdoulaye Fall, from Senegal, meets a group of people in Barcelona, to contribute money to a common fund or to take out a loan. This is one of 60 self-financed communities in Spain, an alternative to traditional banking systems that is having a powerful social effect.
Q&A: 'Gender Budgets Help You Think About People'
- Inter Press Service
Gender responsive budgeting (GRB), a U.N. Women tool to curb inequality, 'helps you think about people…and to use resources in a more effective manner,' says Lorena Barba.
Global Fund for Education Gathers Momentum
- Inter Press Service
If the international community can successfully raise billions of dollars to fight deadly diseases, why not a similar fund to promote education, asks Gordon Brown, former British prime minister.
South-South Ties Reshape Aid Paradigm
- Inter Press Service
When the G-8 countries, comprising the world’s largest industrialised nations, decided that improving Internet access to developing countries should be a priority, scores of leaders from developing world opposed the move.
The Aid From Women No One Counts
- Inter Press Service
Gender responsive budgeting becomes important when seen in the background of unpaid but important care work done by women, say delegates to an international meet on aid effectiveness in this South Korean city.
Arab Women Seek a Place in the Spring
- Inter Press Service
As several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) elect bodies to write new constitutions, women are looking to expand their rights through legislation.
Mobilising Men to End Violence Against Women
- Inter Press Service
Since it launched in 1997, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women (U.N. Trust Fund) has distributed more than 78 million dollars to 339 projects around the world, but even these resources fall far short, meeting less than five percent of demand.
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