News headlines for “Human Population”, page 563
ITALY: Refugees Find Easier Reception, For Now
- Inter Press Service
It’s 4.30 in the morning and the full moon is low in the sky above Lampedusa harbour as the Guardia di Finanza patrol boat escorts a fishing boat containing 19 Tunisian migrants into the closed military port. They include six women, one child and — to the amusement of the Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) team - one sheep. The migrants are driven away in a coach to one of the two holding centres, some of them wrapped in silver emergency blankets. But the sheep remains in the port.
CUBA: Young People for Diversity
- Inter Press Service
The idea emerged spontaneously, and then snowballed. In just a few months, more than 100 people in Cuba became part of a young people’s social network for diversity, in a society where machismo and homophobia are seen as natural.
Africa Faces Explosive Population Growth
- Inter Press Service
The African continent, which is projected to make significant economic gains over the next decade, is in danger of being weighed down by a dramatic explosion in population growth.
OP-ED: Ban's Second Term: The Case for a Woman Secretary-General
- Inter Press Service
Last Friday's recommendation to give the incumbent U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon another five-year term drew the international community's attention to another opaque, non- democratic process that is the hallmark of the 15-member Security Council's decision-making.
SIERRA LEONE-HEALTH: Free Health Care Not Really Free
- Inter Press Service
There is a brief bustle and then a woman wails as the small body is wrapped in cloth and set on a cot by the door of the paediatric ward. Nurses in pristine white uniforms continue to pad quietly around the large room at Ola During Children's Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital city.
BRAZIL: Women Gaining More Ground in the Presidential Palace
- Inter Press Service
By appointing women this month to two key ministries, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has nearly met her goal of having 30 percent of women in her cabinet, and is putting women in predominant roles at the Planalto Palace, the seat of government.
Another Push for Reproductive Rights
- Inter Press Service
By 2015, women demanding family planning products and services in the developing world will likely reach 933 million, a terrific increase from the current 818 million women demanding access to these basic reproductive commodities.
U.N. Political Body Digresses into 'Non-Security' Issues
- Inter Press Service
When the U.N. Security Council, the only political body empowered to declare war and peace, decided to include climate change on its agenda back in 2007, the 131-member Group of 77 (G77) launched a vociferous protest.
LABOUR: Neither Servants nor Family Members, Simply Workers
- Inter Press Service
The world's tens of millions of domestic workers finally won international recognition that they have the same basic labour rights as other workers, in a convention adopted Thursday at the annual meeting of the ILO.
MEXICO: Search for Missing Daughter Points to Int'l Trafficking Ring
- Inter Press Service
Mexican economist Javier Morlett has virtually put his life on hold to search for his daughter Adriana, missing since Sept. 6, 2010. Since her disappearance, Morlett has reported her absence to the authorities and has organised marches and campaigns.
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