News headlines for “Human Population”, page 545
INDIA: Kashmir Gets a Grip on AIDS
- Inter Press Service
When the sole Community Care Centre in Jammu and Kashmir providing medical and psychosocial services to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) closed down for lack of patients it was a sure sign that the north Indian state had beaten back dire forecasts.
Low-Cost Healthcare Goes High-Tech
- Inter Press Service
Cell phones and computer applications can help save the lives of thousands of mothers and children worldwide.
Q&A: 'Democracies Must Ensure Fair Gender Redistribution of Resources'
- Inter Press Service
No matter how progressive laws to promote equality between men and women may be, without budgets with a gender perspective that allocate resources differentially, inequality will persist in Latin America.
Q&A: Africa Keen to Ensure Kyoto Protocol Survives
- Inter Press Service
Durban should not be the burial ground for the Kyoto Protocol, says Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, about his expectations from the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change happening in his hometown in South Africa later this year.
JAMAICA: Women Coffee Farmers Seize a Plastic Lifeline
- Inter Press Service
Jamaica's Blue Mountains are coffee country. Here, up among the clouds, farmers produce one of the world's most exclusive brands of boutique coffees.
SRI LANKA: Catching Itself Young
- Inter Press Service
When Sri Lanka extended the age of retirement for government workers from 55 to 57 years it defied criticism that the island’s public sector was overstaffed and needed serious downsizing.
Q&A: 'We Have to Find a Way to Communicate'
- Inter Press Service
'The anger that rushes through me goes well beyond the hellish night I've just lived through. In a flash, I feel a terrible bond not only with the victims of September 11th but also with the kids brainwashed to become instruments of death in the name of an invented Islam,' Mariane Pearl wrote in her 2003 book 'A Mighty Heart'.
GUATEMALA: More Not Always Better for Women
- Inter Press Service
'Women have more opportunities nowadays to participate in the economic, social and political development of the country, but this has still not improved the quality of their lives,' said Laura Reyes, one of the three women candidates for vice president of Guatemala.
Q&A: 'People With Disabilities Want Work'
- Inter Press Service
More than one billion people worldwide live with disabilities, some 15 percent of the world's population.
Libyan Rebels Hound Black Refugees
- Inter Press Service
The Libyan revolution has been devastating for 20-year-old Alybe Nally from Nigeria, as it has been for countless others from Africa seen by the rebels as Gaddafi loyalists. 'When the rebels took over Tripoli two weeks ago they took my money, my mobile, my passport…All I have is what you see now,' he says, pointing to his mismatched pair of sandals.
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