News headlines for “Human Population”, page 535
ARGENTINA: Women Gain Budget Know-How
- Inter Press Service
'After so many years of feminist activism, we still hadn't realised that you need money to get things done. When I finally understood that, it was like seeing the light. It was a whole new avenue to explore,' Argentine activist Noemí Chiarotti told IPS.
JAPAN: Women Fight to Save Fukushima's Children
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of Japanese women have been converging on the Japanese capital demanding better relief for some 30,000 children exposed to nuclear radiation by the Fukushima meltdown.
Cornered in Free Libya
- Inter Press Service
'We’ve walked all the way here to tell everybody that we are being treated like dogs,' said 23-year old Hamuda Bubakar, among a couple of hundred black refugees protesting at Martyrs Square in Tripoli. 'I’d rather be killed here. I wouldn’t be the first, or the last.'
GUATEMALA: 'We Want Girls to Be Visible'
- Inter Press Service
'I learned to not be afraid, and to love myself. Before, I never wanted to talk to people because I felt like they looked down on me and that I was no good,' says 12-year-old Hilda Tura, one of the participants in a programme fostering leadership among indigenous girls in Guatemala.
As Arab Spring Turns to Winter, Women Fear Pushback
- Inter Press Service
For the women who participated in the political and social revolutions during the Arab Spring in 2011, there is a significant opportunity to enact real change for women's roles and relationships in the region - and also the possibility things could go the other way.
MALAWI: No Social Safety Nets for the Poor
- Inter Press Service
In Mbedza village, a remote rural community in southern Malawi, Fedson Feston beams an infant’s awkward smile and swings his tiny arms up towards the face of his mother. Four months old, Fedson is too young to know how lucky he is to be alive.
POPULATION-CUBA: Young People as Agents of Change
- Inter Press Service
At 19, Liz Sandra Falcón had never imagined that every decision she made could have an impact beyond her own life: not only on people close to her, but on Cuban society itself, and even — although it might seem like an exaggeration — on global tendencies.
Brazil's Health System Inspires Abroad, Frustrates at Home
- Inter Press Service
News that the government of South Africa was inspired by Brazil's health system in setting up its own universal coverage scheme might meet with scepticism in this South American country.
GHANA: No Pensions for Majority of Elderly Women
- Inter Press Service
On the grubby edge of Old Fadama, Accra’s infamous illegal slum settlement, 67-year-old Mariana Sayitou sits under a parasol and tends to her livelihood — selling several dozen kola nuts and a few piles of bagged beans to passers-by.
ENVIRONMENT-THAILAND: 'Bangkok Ignored Warnings'
- Inter Press Service
This sinking mega-city’s eight million people are paying the price of ignoring warnings over many years concerning its climate vulnerability and the incapacity of its soggy foundations to handle flooding.
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