News headlines for “Human Population”, page 561
ARGENTINA: Shedding Light on Dictatorship's Sex Crimes
- Inter Press Service
It's been nearly three decades since Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship came to an end, but the sex crimes committed against political prisoners are just now starting to draw more attention, after being pushed into the background in human rights trials.
UGANDA-HEALTH: When Women go Without Needed Contraceptives
- Inter Press Service
When the monthly contraceptive injection that Bernadette Asiimwe, a mother of four, got from government health centres in western Uganda was out of stock for weeks, she fell pregnant with her fifth child.
Q&A: Re-Electing Fernández 'Would Consolidate the Country Our Children Wanted'
- Inter Press Service
A second term for Argentine President Cristina Fernández would make it possible to continue ushering in the changes 'we want and that our children wanted' when they were forcibly disappeared or murdered during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, said longtime human rights champion Estela de Carlotto.
Gender Indicators for Global Climate Funds Still an Afterthought
- Inter Press Service
Of the millions of dollars spent on climate change projects in developing countries, little has been allocated in a way that will benefit women. Yet, in Africa, it is women who will be most affected by climate change.
PAKISTAN: Schools Rise From the Rubble
- Inter Press Service
Violence in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan has kept students away from school, in some areas for at least two years. Now, officials are trying to make up for lost time by holding classes even under tents or trees.
Navigating Challenges, Brazil Steps Up AIDS Response
- Inter Press Service
Long heralded as a model for the global response to HIV/AIDS, Brazil is intensifying its actions, at home and abroad, in the face of potential setbacks including an arising need for new treatment regimens, the resultant increase in drug prices and the debate over intellectual property rights.
Real Estate Boom as Displaced Pakistanis Seek Housing
- Inter Press Service
Real estate prices have shot up in areas adjacent to the tribal districts of northwest Pakistan where violence continues to displace local residents.
GUATEMALA: Women-Only Buses Against Sexual Harassment
- Inter Press Service
'We are all safer here; it's great because this way there are no men groping you,' Jaqueline Escobar, a sales executive, told IPS on a bus that is exclusively for women, a service against sexual harassment that is being tried out in the Guatemalan capital.
ARGENTINA: Deep-Rooted Prejudice Against Immigrants
- Inter Press Service
Although Argentina's immigration law is regarded as one of the most progressive in Latin America, xenophobia and discrimination persist, showing that progress is still more theoretical than practical.
BOLIVIA: Women Fight Superstition, Machismo to Join Mining Cooperatives
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of women belonging to mining cooperatives in Bolivia are striving for the right to mine seams of tin and silver in the country's western highlands, where an age old superstition maintains that the presence of women 'scares away' the minerals.
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