News headlines for “Human Population”, page 533
UGANDA: Single Mothers Left Behind in Flooded Swampland
- Inter Press Service
Life in Bwaise — a slum on the outskirts of the capital of Uganda — has never been easy. But increasingly erratic rains over the last three years have brought constant floods to the former swampland. Residents who can afford to are moving out, leaving the poorest — often single mothers and grandmothers — behind.
ISRAEL: Women Push Back Into Public Space
- Inter Press Service
They're looking at you 'uncensored'. Posters of women by women have recently multiplied on the holy city walls. 'Women on billboards are back in Jerusalem,' they proclaim defiantly.
AFRICA: Wanted: Greener Cities
- Inter Press Service
In Africa, where urbanisation will be one of the major developments over the next few decades, it will be key for cities to figure out how to handle rapid urban expansion and much-needed economic growth, while creating more environmentally-friendly cities and reducing their carbon footprint at the same time.
Microcredit - Women Demand More Than Incomes
- Inter Press Service
Microcredit can help a woman to have an income. It can, for better or worse, also transform gender equations in the public and private spheres.
CLIMATE CHANGE-PERU: Rural Women Share Their Trials and Wisdom
- Inter Press Service
'This year the freeze killed my crops, our small livestock died, and now I can't even sleep because I'm worried sick thinking about how to put food on my family's table, since I'm a widow,' said Rosaura Huatay, an indigenous farmer in Peru's northern Andes highlands.
Mexican Women Demand Climate Justice
- Inter Press Service
After two weeks without water, the taps finally started running again in the home of Araceli Salazar and her neighbours in the poor, crowded neighbourhood of Iztapalapa on the east side of the Mexican capital.
TUNISIA: Women Fearful of Islamists’ Rise
- Inter Press Service
Tunisian women poured into the streets armed with the vote, their latest weapon, when the country voted in its first democratic election since a popular uprising unseated former president Zine Abidine Ben Ali, ending his 27-year- long stronghold on the country.
LIBERIA: Sirleaf’s Reelection a 'Boon for Women'
- Inter Press Service
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s victory for a second term of office has been described as a boon for women despite the controversy surrounding an opposition boycott of the runoff.
Unreported Horrors - Male Rape in DR Congo
- Inter Press Service
They are men who have lost all pride and self-confidence and who have been left severely traumatised by their experience. At the medical centre in Uganda where they are being treated, they talked candidly about the crimes carried out against them.
China Will Need Many More Singles Parties
- Inter Press Service
In a country of 180 million single people and a growing gender imbalance, tens of thousands of people across China went looking for love on Singles’ Day Nov. 11. But events on the day may only have helped point to the continuing and growing difficulty of being single.
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