News headlines for “Human Population”, page 532
Q&A: Durban Must Ensure That 'Words Become Reality'
- Inter Press Service
Involving women in decision-making and resource management is a basic necessity for any effective plan to address the multi- layered and life-threatening consequences of climate change, says the head of UN Women.
US: Battered Bodies, Broken Families: Remembering Immigrant Women
- Inter Press Service
Today marks the first of '16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence', a campaign launched in 1991 to insist that 'women's rights are human rights'.
CUBA: Violence against Women Out of the Closet
- Inter Press Service
The story of Saúl, a violent husband, and Odalys, an abused wife, has been on Cuban TV screens for several weeks now, bringing the touchy and often silenced issue of violence against women into millions of homes. It may cause shock or repulsion, but few can escape the controversy or discussion.
MEXICO: Deadly Cocktail of Sexual Violence and Impunity
- Inter Press Service
Sexual violence against women in Mexico is on the rise, alongside the escalation of violence between police and soldiers and the drug cartels, women's rights activists warn.
ARGENTINA: Women Build New Opportunities in Cooperatives
- Inter Press Service
Forged in the 2001-2002 social and economic crisis, cooperatives in Argentina are becoming a fast track to women's participation in what were traditionally regarded as male spheres.
LATIN AMERICA: How to Prevent 'Femicide'
- Inter Press Service
Vanina Alderete, an 18-year-old from Argentina, is a survivor of a particularly heinous case of domestic violence: when she was 11, her father killed her mother and her two little brothers and left her seriously injured.
EU: Conditions Faced by Roma People - from Bad to Worse
- Inter Press Service
Roma leaders are alarmed at the growing discrimination faced by their people in Europe, especially because of the anti-gypsy stance taken by many political parties, which blame the ethnic minority group for a wide range of social ills.
Bangladesh Demands Climate Justice
- Inter Press Service
Mosammet Monwara walks more than three km every alternate day to fetch water for her family of five in a heavy earthen pitcher.
MIDEAST: Erdogan Most Popular Leader By Far Among Arabs
- Inter Press Service
Despite repeated expressions of support by President Barack Obama for democratic change during the 'Arab Spring', the United States remains widely distrusted in the region, according to a major new survey of public opinion in five Arab countries released here Monday.
Activists Tie Occupy Movement to Global Gender Rights
- Inter Press Service
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Nov. 25, a group of feminist organisations will unite to launch a campaign calling for an end of the 'immoral and unethical economy of Wall Street' against women and people of colour.
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