News headlines for “Human Population”, page 573
Somali Women Entrepreneurs Carve a Niche in Boston
- Inter Press Service
Deeqo Jibril is always on the go. Whether she is tending to her four children or teaching breast cancer awareness classes to women in her community, the Somali-born community organiser is always up for a new challenge.
North and South Korea Far Apart
- Inter Press Service
Young North Koreans who have defected to the South are determined to see their dream - a unified Korea - become reality, even if their counterparts in the South don’t quite agree.
CANADA: An Electorate Divided
- Inter Press Service
It was a highly disciplined campaign focused on the core base of Canadians, especially in greater Toronto, where a large number of citizens of recent immigrant origins helped to boost the Conservatives Monday to a comfortable parliamentary majority status of 167 seats out of a total 308.
JAPAN: Nuke Refugees Face Uncertain Fate
- Inter Press Service
Tadanori Anzai and his wife Michiko left their town in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, more than a month ago to escape the radioactive contamination spewing from the earthquake-damaged nuclear power plant located close to their home and tiny eatery.
CUBA: Month-Long Offensive Against Homophobia
- Inter Press Service
LGBT social networks and experts with Cuba's National Sex Education Centre (CENESEX) announced Tuesday that events surrounding the Day Against Homophobia will last a month this year in this Caribbean island nation.
U.N. Predicts 9.3 Billion Population by 2050
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations is predicting that come Oct. 31, the world population will hit the seven billion mark - and keep expanding till it reaches 9.3 billion by the year 2050.
TAIWAN: East Asia May Get its First Woman President
- Inter Press Service
Taiwan may become the first country in East Asia with a female head of state if opposition Democratic Progressive Party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen wins the island country’s fifth presidential election next Jan. 14.
YEMEN: Youth Ready to Confront Gender Roles
- Inter Press Service
Despite being at the forefront of sweeping changes taking place in the country, the lives of the majority of Yemeni women are restricted to early marriage, motherhood and serving husbands, according to a new study by Women Without Borders (WWB), a Vienna based public relations and advocacy platform for women’s voices around the world.
LATIN AMERICA: Violence in the Age of Innocence
- Inter Press Service
The countries of Latin America are working slowly to overcome barriers in the fight against the often brutal violence suffered by children and adolescents in their homes, schools, workplaces or juvenile detention centres.
BANGLADESH: Women Defy Islamic Clergy
- Inter Press Service
Bangladeshi women are pushing government to implement the recently approved National Women Development Policy (NWDP) 2011, which has met with strong resistance from Islamic clergy.
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