News headlines for “Human Population”, page 560
NEPAL: Women Grow Carbon Money on Trees
- Inter Press Service
When Bina Tamang was told that she could earn money by not felling trees in the tiny forest that serves as the source of fuel and fodder for 65 families in her area, the 27-year-old was incredulous.
FILM: So Much More Than Just 'Trafficked Women'
- Inter Press Service
Mimi Chakarova had one simple objective in filming 'The Price of Sex,' her award-winning documentary about sex trafficking in Eastern Europe: 'I'm trying to reach millions of people,' she told IPS. 'It's kind of a big goal to have.'
MIDEAST: Dancing in a Palestinian Bubble
- Inter Press Service
It’s Thursday night, the beginning of the weekend in the Muslim world, and time to party and let one’s hair down in Ramallah, the occupied West Bank’s isolated bubble and de facto capital.
MIDEAST: Israel Denies Healthcare to Refugees
- Inter Press Service
Medication and pillboxes fill two white bookcases, lining the wall behind a volunteer Israeli doctor. He talks to a patient in Hebrew about the man’s medical condition, as another man is examined behind a curtain that divides the small office. In the next room, at least 40 people — mainly of Eritrean and Sudanese origin — sit quietly on plastic chairs, waiting for their turn to be seen.
Strauss-Kahn's Accuser Doubly Vicitimised, Advocates Say
- Inter Press Service
Despite questions about her credibility, the Sofitel maid who is accusing former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault is still a victim and should be treated as one, according to her attorney.
BRAZIL: Rainbow of Colours and Gender Equality at Innovative School
- Inter Press Service
In the last three years there have been no teen pregnancies among the youngsters at Casa do Zezinho, an extracurricular educational and cultural facility in Brazil attended by 1,500 children and young people from favelas or shantytowns on the south side of São Paulo.
INDIA: 'Seed-Mothers' Confront Climate Insecurity
- Inter Press Service
In eastern Orissa state’s tribal hinterlands about 200 ‘seed-mothers’ are on mission mode - identifying, collecting and conserving traditional seed varieties and motivating farming families to use them.
NORTH KOREA: On Sale, Girls Look for Chinese Husbands
- Inter Press Service
North Koreans have increasingly been crossing into the northern border cities of China, with women outnumbering men. 'Women represent about 70 percent of some 200,000 North Koreans who fled from North Korea into China in the past few years,' Kim Tae Jin, a North Korean defector who leads a nongovernment organisation to protect the human rights of fellow North Koreans tells IPS.
ZAMBIA: 'Every Year Flooding Makes This Place a Little Hell'
- Inter Press Service
During the rainy season, and many weeks afterwards, home is never the best place to be for Miriam Banda. Until the end of 2008, she enjoyed living at her house in Kanyama, a high-density settlement bordering the central business district in Lusaka, Zambia's capital.
PERU: Indigenous Women Weave New Community Ties
- Inter Press Service
Fuchsia, green and turquoise yarn shuttles swiftly across the wooden loom Dora Huancahuari has learned to use. Together with other craftswomen, she has started a small weaving business which is helping to rebuild their lives in this remote, poverty-stricken Andean community torn by Peru's history of armed conflict.
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