News headlines for “Human Population”, page 546
Weighing in on 'Generation 9/11'
- Inter Press Service
The 10 years since Sep. 11, 2001 have offered scholars, politicians and the Millennial Generation, a group who was entering adolescence at the turn of the century, fodder for contention about just what the changes of the last decade mean for the younger generation.
Reproductive Health Security Empowers Women's Choices
- Inter Press Service
Each day, one thousand women die in childbirth and one million people become infected with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including 7,000 cases of HIV. Yet these numbers are preventable, experts insist, when countries possess the resources and willpower to address and deal with them.
COLOMBIA: Women Make an Oasis in Violence-Wracked Neighbourhood
- Inter Press Service
In one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Colombian capital, 26-year-old Sandra Sánchez has created an oasis that offers meals, recreational opportunities, company and much more to hundreds of children and elderly people, in an example of solidarity and leadership that has transcended borders.
AFRICA: Slow Progress in Reducing Maternal Mortality
- Inter Press Service
Agnes Kalunda’s doctor feared that because of her slight frame there was a high chance of her developing complications during delivery.
US-LATAM: Human Trafficking Scourge Needs More Than Policing
- Inter Press Service
South American experts and officials met in Washington this week to discuss current policy initiatives to combat human trafficking in their respective countries, part of a broader U.S.-wide tour to share information and strategies to deal with the issue.
HAITI: U.N. Troops Accused of Exploiting Local Women
- Inter Press Service
Seventeen-year-old Rose Mina Joseph says she is nine months pregnant. Her belly is swollen and she moves slowly, placing each step, as she walks around her family's dusty yard.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Nepali Women Sow a Secure Future
- Inter Press Service
Learning a lesson from crop failures attributed to climate change, Nepal’s women farmers are discarding imported hybrid seeds and husbanding hardier local varieties in cooperative seed banks.
LIBYA: New Chapter Opens After Gaddafi
- Inter Press Service
Libyan children will go back to school without Muammar Gaddafi’s ubiquitous presence, despite a lack of new books.
INDIA: Campuses Lead Gay Rights Struggle
- Inter Press Service
It was with some trepidation that Nivvedan, a student at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Bombay, helped launch ‘Saathi’ (Companion), catering to the needs of people with different sexual orientations on campus.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazilian Women Rise Above the Waters
- Inter Press Service
Almost a year and a half after floods wreaked havoc in a large part of the state of Rio de Janeiro, a group of women are struggling to rebuild their lives. They lost everything except their will to pick themselves up again and make the best of the aid they receive, to become self-sufficient again.
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