News headlines for “Human Population”, page 578
ZIMBABWE: Fears for Next Generation of Women Leaders
- Inter Press Service
Zimbabwe's veteran women politicians fear there are no younger women coming up through the ranks to replace them. Measures to improve women's representation have achieved little and young women are absent from the traditional entry points into politics.
ZIMBABWE: Backlash Against Women in Politics
- Inter Press Service
'Women in Zimbabwe are largely seen as a huge demographic to be exploited by politicians who seek our support,' says Ntombikayise Mswela. 'But when we take to the streets to demand respect and our rights from the same government we are thrown into prison.
AGRICULTURE: Malawian Cotton Farmers Ecstatic Over High Prices
- Inter Press Service
An ardent listener to the radio, small-scale cotton farmer Mercy Kaduya from Chikhwawa in Nsanje in southern Malawi has just heard an item during the international news segment that cotton prices have hit a record high on the international market.
Women Turn Spotlight on Haiti's Silent Rape Epidemic
- Inter Press Service
Some 14 months after Haiti's earthquake, activists say there is an ongoing epidemic of rape and gender-based violence (GBV) in the country's more than 1,000 squalid displaced persons camps, where nearly a million people are still awaiting permanent housing.
BOTSWANA: Women in Politics - A House Divided... But Determined
- Inter Press Service
'The Botswana Caucus for Women in Politics has failed to realise the objectives it was intended for, but we will not give up on it just yet,' says Margaret Nasha.
ZAMBIA: Women Resume Struggle for Representation Ahead of Elections
- Inter Press Service
Zambians head to the polls sometime before October and civil society groups are working hard to ensure their voices are heard. Groups which were excluded during the 2005 elections and the National Constitutional Conference that began in 2007 are mobilising to ensure they are not excluded.
BRAZIL: Women Workers Determined to Ride the Wave of Mechanisation
- Inter Press Service
'She's crazy' said most of the husbands and other family members of the 34 women who decided to become operators of sugarcane harvesters in the southern Brazilian state of São Paulo, attracted by the opportunity of better pay and encouraged by the growing mechanisation of the industry.
Ghana Border Town Braced for Influx of Ivorian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
As many as a million people have fled Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan, due to intensified fighting. Many people are fleeing to areas in the north, centre and east of the country as thousands of youth answered a call to join forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo; others are trying to leave the country.
Foreign Labourers Targeted Throughout Bahrain
- Inter Press Service
As protests in Bahrain continue, increasingly migrant workers are being victimised in violent hate crimes.
PAKISTAN: And Then There Was Light
- Inter Press Service
Hasan Ibrahim’s tea stall is the busiest place in the sleepy, sand-dune covered village of Sholani, proof of the economic and social change the arrival of electricity has ushered in.
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