News headlines for “Human Population”, page 548
AUSTRALIA: Refugee Centres Breed Mental Illness
- Inter Press Service
Concern is growing for the mental health of thousands of people locked up indefinitely in this country’s immigration detention system.
U.N. Launches Campaign to Break Catch-22 of Statelessness
- Inter Press Service
For the majority of the world’s population, citizenship is a fact of life, something so fundamental that the idea of not being citizen to any state seems unfathomable. Yet for 12 million people worldwide, ordinary life as most people expect it is impossible because they belong to no country and are thus deprived of basic rights.
Female Trafficking Soars in Iraq
- Inter Press Service
Rania was 16 years old when officials raped her during Saddam Hussein’s 1991 crackdown in Iraq’s Shia south. 'My bothers were sentenced to death, and the price to stop this was to offer my body,' she says.
Palestinians Thirsting for Justice in Water-Starved Occupied Territories
- Inter Press Service
In the strife-stricken Middle East, oil has always been in the realm of politics. But in the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank, oil has been supplanted by water.
Q&A: NGOs Must Play Key Role in Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
As the United Nations readies for a major international conference on sustainable development next June in Brazil, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are preparing to play a key role in the run-up to the summit meeting and are preparing a plan of action to be adopted by world leaders.
CULTURE-CUBA: Women Rappers a Vocal Minority
- Inter Press Service
Women are still a small minority on Cuba’s hip hop scene. 'If the situation is hard for us nationwide, imagine what it’s like in the eastern region, where this genre has very little recognition,' says Yaneidys Tamayo, leader of the group Las Positivas.
IRAQ: Trafficked to Baghdad’s Green Zone
- Inter Press Service
Ukrainian and Bulgarian workers are currently camped out on a construction site of half-built luxury villas in Baghdad’s elite 'Green Zone' — a vast security enclave housing government offices, embassies and international NGOs - demanding their salaries before being shipped back home.
BRAZIL: Fight for Gay Rights Making Strides
- Inter Press Service
Brazil is making progress in cracking down on homophobia and upholding the rights of homosexuals. The latest step was the introduction in Congress of a bill on sexual diversity, sponsored by the bar association in consultation with civil society.
Africa Remains Hamstrung in Battle for Water and Sanitation
- Inter Press Service
The statistics coming out of Africa are staggering: 40 percent of Africa’s 1 billion people live in urban areas an 60 percent live in slums, where water supplies and sanitation are 'severely inadequate', according to the Nairobi-based U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP).
Refugees Tossed Between Iraq and Syria
- Inter Press Service
At the height of Iraq’s sectarian war in 2006, 30-year-old Samer escaped his Baghdad neighbourhood to join a flood of refugees arriving in Syria. A young man of military age, he was at high risk of being targeted by armed forces that roamed the capital’s streets.
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