News headlines for “Human Population”, page 565
Dam Project in Turkey Breeds Controversy
- Inter Press Service
The tranquillity and mystery of this town on the banks of Tigris River will not last long. The millennia-old town will be nearly totally destroyed once the nearby Ilisu dam, built for energy and irrigation, is complete.
INDIA: A School of Hope for Nomad Children
- Inter Press Service
High up in the Himalayan mountains, 13-year-old Mohammad Junaid helps his family collect fresh fodder for their buffaloes, all the while dreaming of the day he could once again play cricket.
PERU: Humala Pledges Justice for Sterilisation Victims
- Inter Press Service
Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala will push the legal system to investigate and prosecute those responsible for a massive forced sterilisation campaign targeting poor indigenous women carried out by the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), said the spokeswoman for Humala's party, Aída García Naranjo.
As Britain Sees a Needy Child
- Inter Press Service
The British Home Office has ruled that a severely disabled five-year-old girl should be returned to Algeria. The ruling demonstrates just how tough some European governments are getting on immigration.
Thirty Years On, AIDS Epidemic a Women's Battle
- Inter Press Service
As world leaders gather in New York for a high-level conference on HIV/AIDS, United Nations agency heads, goodwill ambassadors and activists alike hope they will remember the virus's most vulnerable victims: women and girls.
Millions May Soon Be Fleeing the Floodwaters
- Inter Press Service
Mass migration will inevitably be part of human adaptation to climate change, experts agree, since parts of the world will become uninhabitable in the coming decades.
ZIMBABWE: Beating the Housing Blues
- Inter Press Service
Every month Cynthia Dube and the nine other women from her co-operate make sure they sell enough clothes and appliances to put 100 dollars each in a joint savings. When they have enough money, they will buy each member a plot of land. And eventually they will help each other build their own homes.
Street Harassment, Not 'Compliments'
- Inter Press Service
Men say they are giving compliments, or even claim they are being poetic. But to many women, cheeky or lewd remarks from men on the street are a form of harassment which is offensive, insulting and even denigrating.
OP-ED: Community Defenders in Peru: Planting Hope to Root Out Violence
- Inter Press Service
Where is the justice? In Peru, a nation still struggling to recover from a sordid 20-year cycle of terror and political uncertainty, this simple yet poignant question has become an almost daily litany.
Female Journalists Break Silence on Sexual Violence
- Inter Press Service
On Feb. 11, while the world was celebrating former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's fall from power, CBS television correspondent Lara Logan was being 'mercilessly assaulted' by a group of well over 200 men in a dark corner of Tahrir Square.
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