News headlines for “Human Population”, page 575
Libyan Choice: Starve or Run
- Inter Press Service
Rights groups have condemned the indiscriminate attacks on residential areas in Misrata, that have worsened an already dire situation.
CUBA: Gender Inequality Persists Behind Closed Doors
- Inter Press Service
While gender roles have changed since Cuba's 1959 revolution, inequalities persist among men and women in private life, and young people are both accepting that and breaking with it.
EAST AFRICA: Women Breaking Through Trade Barriers
- Inter Press Service
For 12 years now, the women around Tsangano in Malawi’s southern district of Ntcheu have put together their tomato harvest, selling some 20 tons at the outdoor markets that abound in Lilongwe, the capital. But they have very little to show for their hard work.
Headscarf Is Also a Scarf Over the Head
- Inter Press Service
While Belgium’s politicians, academics, business leaders and feminists grapple with the concept and reality of a law banning headscarves in public institutions and beyond, two entrepreneurial women have joined forces to rescue the headscarf from the country’s political debate. Inge Rombauts and Fatima Rafiy run the exclusive hijab boutique Noor D’Izar, which offers women, 'a fashionable solution regardless of their reasons for wanting to wear a headscarf,' Inge Rombauts tells IPS.
No Homecoming for Bhutanese Refugees
- Inter Press Service
A knock on the door of his home in Bhutan one midnight turned middle-level government official Balaram Paudyal into a fugitive overnight, after he managed to elude policemen arresting him for 'anti-government activities', and then fled the country.
Uncertain Flows the Mekong
- Inter Press Service
Countries around the lower Mekong have failed to reach a consensus on a controversial proposal that could see Laos build the first hydropower dam on this part of the vital river.
AUSTRALIA: More Suicides, No Lessons
- Inter Press Service
Supporters of asylum seekers here say that the government’s response to recent suicides in Australian immigration detention centres ignores what is already well-known: that indefinite, long-term detention in crowded facilities results in deaths.
CUBA: Young People Look Abroad
- Inter Press Service
While for their parents, leaving Cuba was a traumatic event because of the impossibility of returning, for younger generations, 'moving abroad' is becoming more and more of a normal decision, just another alternative for the future.
LATIN AMERICA: Lack of Prevention, Timely Treatment Make Women Vulnerable to Cancer
- Inter Press Service
In many cases, cancer is preventable, treatable and curable if detected on time. But the fate of millions of women with the disease varies enormously, depending on where they live.
JAPAN: Quake’s Aftermath Weighs Heavily on Women
- Inter Press Service
Since the horrific Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated her coastal town of Minato, in Ishinomaki city, Masami Endo’s three-year-old daughter has been crying and clinging to her every night.
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