News headlines for “Human Population”, page 577
ARGENTINA: Banking on Women's Experience
- Inter Press Service
Argentina's president is a woman, Cristina Fernández, and the country has one of the highest percentages of women lawmakers in the world. But women also have other leadership roles, outside the political system.
Films Shrink Global Problems Down to a More Human Scale
- Inter Press Service
'It's bad to be rich at the height of fame with your morals a dirty shame,' says Valter pointedly as he bumps along in the back of a pickup towards Jardim Gramacho, the largest landfill in the world, located in Brazil.
KENYA: Feisty Politician Enters Presidential Race
- Inter Press Service
Martha Karua fears nothing and no one, but when her adversaries look back at her long track record in politics, they must get nervous. This previously staunch supporter of Mwai Kibaki resigned as justice minister in 2009, and will challenge all comers for the presidency at the head of her own party next year.
Migrant Workers Caught In The Whirlwinds Of 'Arab Spring'
- Inter Press Service
Migrant workers caught in the crossfire of the ongoing upheavals in Bahrain and Libya highlight the need to develop international migration policies based on migrants' rights rather than the economic interest of labour sending and receiving countries, knowledgeable sources say.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/: Nigerian Women Stand Up to be Counted
- Inter Press Service
As Nigeria tries again to begin its staggered general elections on Apr. 9, spare a thought for the women who will be putting themselves forward as candidates in an overwhelmingly male field.
Nigerian Women Stand Up to be Counted
- Inter Press Service
As Nigeria tries again to begin its staggered general elections on Apr. 9, spare a thought for the women who will be putting themselves forward as candidates in an overwhelmingly male field.
Broken Promises Loom Large in 2012 Election Run-Up
- Inter Press Service
Just days after United States President Barak Obama announced his reelection campaign for the 2012 run-off via a Youtube video, the White House is poised on the brink of its first shutdown in 15 years, with budget wars, an immigration maelstrom and determined opposition to the administration's seeming tolerance for union-busting barricading the path to a second term for the Democrat incumbent.
SRI LANKA: Finally Dengue Takes a Beating
- Inter Press Service
Dengue infections and deaths here have declined significantly this year.
SOUTH AFRICA: The Invisible People
- Inter Press Service
Since psychiatric care was decentralised last year in South Africa, patients have been moved from hospitals into community day hospitals that don't have the appropriate resources to deal with mental illnesses. As a result, many of society's most vulnerable have slipped through the cracks in the system and now walk the streets like invisible people.
In Cambodia, Women Fear Death at Childbirth
- Inter Press Service
Death haunts women in this Cambodian village at a moment of happiness - when they give birth.
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