News headlines for “Human Population”, page 564
CUBA: Economic Reforms Hitting Women Hard
- Inter Press Service
Women in Cuba are gaining ground in public life and earn the same wages as men. But the gender gap in the workplace is still a challenge for women, who are finding the odds more heavily stacked against them as the government of Raúl Castro adopts economic reforms aimed at 'updating' the country's socialist system.
Palestinian Children Targeted as Israel Crushes Unrest
- Inter Press Service
'Father please help me! Don’t let them take me away,' screamed 12-year-old Ahmed Siyam as approximately 50 heavily armed Israeli soldiers and police dragged the handcuffed and blindfolded boy away.
Q&A: 'When They Find Out You’re a Lesbian They Refuse to Help'
- Inter Press Service
With homophobia on the rise, large numbers of South African lesbians are being subjected to discrimination and violent assaults. There has also been an increase in 'corrective rape' by men trying to 'cure' them of their sexual orientation. More than 30 lesbians have been killed since 2006. But most of these crimes go unrecognised by the state and unpunished by the legal system.
POLITICS-JAPAN: Transgender Rights in Forefront of Equality Parade
- Inter Press Service
About 5,000 people attended the Equality Parade in Polish capital Warsaw this weekend. Among them, the country’s first transgender rights activists, who in the last couple of years have made great strides in gaining recognition for the country’s transgender community.
Women’s Groups Unite Ahead of Busan Aid Forum
- Inter Press Service
Twenty women from four continents consider the words discussion leader Anne Schoenstein, of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), has written on a flip chart. She strikes out in blue ink a previous sentence. She begins writing a new one - a demand aimed at aid donors - dictated by Nurgul Djanaeva.
RIGHTS-UGANDA: Government Needs to Prioritise Maternal Health
- Inter Press Service
Just a week after a group of civil society organisations petitioned Uganda’s constitutional court demanding that the government’s non-provision of essential services for pregnant mothers was a violation of the right to life; Margaret Nabirye lost her baby in childbirth.
SWAZILAND: Girls Leave School Because of No Sanitary Wear
- Inter Press Service
After a newspaper that Prudence* (16) used as sanitary wear fell from her while she played with friends at school, she left and never returned.
JAPAN: HIV Cases Rise as Awareness Wanes
- Inter Press Service
Slackening awareness and deep-rooted social discrimination are behind the latest figures that show Japan with a record number of HIV-positive and AIDS patients, officials and experts say.
PAKISTAN: Women Shield Children From Extremism
- Inter Press Service
When Farah’s 16-year-old son began to disappear for several nights a week without saying where he went, she was naturally worried. After he returned one day and shattered the television screen in their Peshawar home, the mother of three decided it was time to quit her job as a teacher and to find out what was making her youngest child so angry.
Q&A: 'Women Have Yielded the Cooking Profession to Men'
- Inter Press Service
'Women didn't want to be slaves any more, or work professionally at what they were trying to liberate themselves from,' renowned Venezuelan chef Helena Ibarra told IPS, explaining why women have taken so long to compete in a workplace as symbolically feminine as the kitchen.
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