News headlines for “Human Population”, page 534
DR CONGO: Election Promises of Peace and Security
- Inter Press Service
The 11 candidates contesting presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo all pledge to improve peace and security in the country - promises received with varying degrees of scepticism by Congolese voters.
Brazil Commits to Quality Food for All
- Inter Press Service
Representatives of the Brazilian federal and municipal governments and of indigenous, black and riverbank communities and other groups that make the population of this country so diverse assumed a commitment to fight for 'the human right to an adequate diet.'
Q&A: 'Gender Violence Is Not Natural and Not Inevitable'
- Inter Press Service
Dedicated efforts by women's rights advocates are bearing fruit, UN Women says: for example, two-thirds of the world's countries now have legal provisions to stop domestic violence.
CUBA: Same-Sex Couples Want to Be Counted
- Inter Press Service
Communist Party militant, gay rights activist, journalist and blogger Francisco Rodríguez has triggered an online debate in Cuba by calling for sexual diversity to be identified in the next census, due in September 2012.
ARGENTINA: Fighting 'Machismo' Is a Guy Thing
- Inter Press Service
An original campaign led by men is getting thousands of men in Argentina to reflect on the abuse of power and commit themselves to helping eradicate violence against women.
Kenya's Two Female Supreme Court Justices Set to Work
- Inter Press Service
Deputy Chief Justice of Kenya’s Supreme Court Nancy Baraza, who made history as the first woman appointed to the post, has begun overhauling the country’s judiciary.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Bangladeshi Women on the Brink
- Inter Press Service
Char Nongolia village is a basket case when it comes to climate change impacts such as increasing salinity, frequent cyclones, tidal surges, erratic rainfall and extended droughts.
ENVIRONMENT: Nepali Women Live With Climate Terror
- Inter Press Service
Suntali Shrestha wrings her hands in tension and despair as she recounts how she has been spending sleepless nights fearing that the flood alarm in her village would go off while she slept and she would be submerged.
PAKISTAN: Wanted: A Revolution For Girls
- Inter Press Service
Sixteen-year-old Noor Bano believes nothing short of a revolution will convince the men in Malangabad — her remote village in the Khairpur district of the Sindh province, some 460 kilometres from the southern port city of Karachi — to treat women as equals.
Afghan Theatre Group Lets War Victims Tell Their Stories
- Inter Press Service
On a small stage, a woman appears, grief written on her face as she wanders through the streets of Kabul, searching for her missing child. Suddenly, she stops by a scene of ruins and stares.
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