News headlines for “Human Population”, page 568
Syrians Running Out of Refuge in Lebanon
- Inter Press Service
Syrians from the border town Tell Khalakh have been fleeing a wave of violence over recent weeks to cross into neighboring Lebanon. But those seeking refuge now face an uncertain fate.
SOUTH AFRICA : Women Candidates Struggle in Local Government Elections
- Inter Press Service
Political parties should be forced, through changes in legislation, to bring more women into government.
POLITICS: First Woman Speaker of Parliament Changing Politics
- Inter Press Service
Very soon wives in Uganda will legally have the right to a share in their husband’s property, that’s if the country’s new speaker of parliament has her way.
Global Refugee Problem Bigger Than Ever
- Inter Press Service
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark 1951 U.N. Convention on the Status of Refugees defining their rights and states' legal obligations to protect them.
Hotel Maids Say Sexual Harassment Is Part of the Job
- Inter Press Service
With the arrest of the once powerful head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, following allegations that he raped a maid in his 3,000-dollar-a-night penthouse suite at the Sofitel Hotel, a spotlight has been turned on the treatment of female cleaning staff, many of whom are immigrants who keep silent for fear of losing their jobs or being deported.
PERU: No Easy Choice for Women in Presidential Runoff
- Inter Press Service
In other circumstances, many women in Peru would be celebrating the possibility of a female president for the first time in the history of their country, or the alternative: the triumph of a candidate who promises to improve things for the poor. But both candidates taking part in the Jun. 5 runoff draw heavy opposition or awaken serious doubts among women's groups.
NIGERIA: Women Giving Each Other a Hand Up
- Inter Press Service
In an open space near her home in Makoko, a crowded suburb of the sprawling city of Lagos, Latifat Agboola sits in the midst of bags of charcoal, attending to her customers. Some of them call her 'the charcoal woman with the dirty job, but she sees herself as a businesswoman on the rise.
PAKISTAN: Militancy Keeps Refugees Far From Home
- Inter Press Service
Back home, Abdur Rehman’s family had a spacious house that could easily fit the 10 members of his family. Now they all have to squeeze into a small tent in a refugee camp near Peshawar in north-west Pakistan.
CUBA: Sexual Diversity in a Sexist City
- Inter Press Service
Known as the cradle of the revolution and of the conga, but also as one of the most machista places in Cuba, the city of Santiago in the east of the island was the scene of two days of activities demanding respect and freedom for different sexual orientations and gender identities.
Ethics and Politics Get Divorced in Guatemala
- Inter Press Service
'She got a divorce because of her ambition and love of money,' shopkeeper Dulce Álvarez told IPS, about Guatemalan former First Lady Sandra Torres' decision to end her marriage in order to sidestep the legal bar to the president's family members running for the presidency.
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