News headlines for “Human Population”, page 541
CAMEROON: Protect Your Daughters, Iron Their Breasts
- Inter Press Service
'Please God, make my breasts disappear.' Joyce Forghab used to pray the same line every night during the month she was suffering from breast ironing. The shocking practice, carried out by a quarter of mothers in Cameroon, is meant to reverse female sexual development.
MEXICO: Women Left Out of U.N. Forest Plan
- Inter Press Service
Despite the growing participation of women in forestry projects in Mexico, the national strategy for the United Nations-led REDD+ forest plan in this country lacks a gender focus.
AFRICA: More Dangerous to Be a Woman than a Soldier
- Inter Press Service
African women who bear the brunt of the continent’s conflicts now demand to play a defining role in peacekeeping.
Salvadoran Campesinas Go Organic
- Inter Press Service
The guavas grown by Mariana Rosales are big and bright green, and the best thing about them, she says proudly, is that she does not spend a single cent on fertilisers to produce them — something extremely rare in a country like El Salvador.
PAKISTAN: Guns Aimed Increasingly at Women
- Inter Press Service
Guns available in new abundance in the troubled north of Pakistan are increasingly being used on women in ‘honour’ killings and domestic disputes, according to local reports.
Iranians in Iraqi Camp to Seek Refugee Status
- Inter Press Service
In a development that could help resolve an eight-year-old diplomatic and humanitarian standoff, the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group that has several thousand adherents at a military camp in Iraq, has agreed to allow residents to apply for refugee status and be interviewed individually by U.N. officials.
Re-Greening Africa in the Footsteps of Wangari Maathai
- Inter Press Service
Africa needs to remain focused and continue following the late Professor Wangari Maathai’s initiatives for environmental sustainability in order to address climate change across the continent, environmentalists say.
PERU: Councilwomen Fight Climate Change in Land of Melting Glaciers
- Inter Press Service
Some symbolic acts are powerful reflections of a broader struggle. In March some 300 women planted trees in the Santa River basin in northwest Peru to demonstrate their determination to preserve the environment and help adapt to climate change.
INDIA: Facing Climate Change With Flower Power
- Inter Press Service
Gazalla Amin’s office on the outskirts of this city, capital of Jammu & Kashmir state, is redolent with the fragrance of lavender wafting up from heaps of the dried flowers in a corner bowl.
RIGHTS-JAMAICA: Wanted: Light-skinned only, please
- Inter Press Service
Revelations that proprietors are requesting light-skinned workers from a government training institution is putting a new spin on Jamaica's so-called obsession with skin bleaching.
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