News headlines for “Human Population”, page 537
PHILIPPINES: Prisoners Find Their E-Families
- Inter Press Service
For the first time since giving birth in prison 13 years ago, Sarah, an inmate in the Philippines’ largest detention centre for female convicts, saw her daughter via Skype video chat in her prison cell.
In Latin America, Closing the Gender Gap Brings Fresh Challenges
- Inter Press Service
Over the past four decades in Latin America and the Caribbean, women have made remarkable strides in education, health, labour, and beyond, with girls now outperforming boys in school, the rate of working women more than doubling in many countries, and female participation rising in politics.
Seven Billion People, Seven Billion Possibilities, Says UNFPA
- Inter Press Service
When Adnan Nevic was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina back in October 1999, he was hailed as the world's six billionth person, triggering a visit to Sarajevo by then Secretary- General Kofi Annan.
POPULATION: Youth Bulge Adds to Pakistan's Woes
- Inter Press Service
Pakistan’s population explosion is posing a greater danger than militancy and religious intolerance, says noted medical doctor and demographer Farid Midhet.
THAILAND: Bangkok Braces for Month of Floods
- Inter Press Service
As the Thai Airways flight descends into Suvarnabhumi International Airport, passengers pull out cameras to snap pictures of flood waters rising inexorably and predicted to inundate the capital city by the end of the week.
Citizens of Nowhere
- Inter Press Service
When Mona Kareem, a member of the Bidoun population of Kuwait, was 11 years old, a neighbour Kuwaiti woman asked her where she was from. When Kareem answered, 'I am Bidoun,' the woman laughed at her. 'There is no country called Bidoun. There is no Bidoun.'
UNESCO Study Reveals Widening Secondary Education Gap
- Inter Press Service
Arguing that an educated population is a country's greatest wealth, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says there is no escape from poverty without a vast expansion of secondary education worldwide.
NICARAGUA: 'We Women Want to Be Heard'
- Inter Press Service
Fátima Hernández, a young Nicaraguan rape victim who has become a symbol in her country in her fight for justice, is now working to help women in a similar situation, and preparing to take her case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
SPAIN: Detained Immigrants 'Are Treated Like Criminals'
- Inter Press Service
'It was very tough, like being in prison,' says 29-year-old Algerian immigrant Sid Hamed Bouziane, in slow Spanish, about his 28-day stay at the Immigrant Detention Centre, or CIE, in the southern Spanish city of Málaga.
MEXICO: Women Reject Normalisation of Gender Violence
- Inter Press Service
Ninety percent of the non-governmental organisations in Mexico are founded and run by women, says journalist and women's rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, making them primary targets of violence, including spillover from Mexico's escalating drug wars.
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