News headlines for “Human Population”, page 580
Q&A: 'Women Must Be Part of the Peace Equation'
- Inter Press Service
Eleven years ago, 192 countries — all the United Nations member states — agreed to step up the integration of women in international peacebuilding and security processes, a promise that has remained largely unmet.
Impunity for Killers of Women in Strife-torn Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
Fracha Begam has been unable to come to terms with the deaths of her two teenage daughters, killed by unknown gunmen in the latest incident of violence against women in the Kashmir Valley.
MOZAMBIQUE: Educator in the Foothills of Her Political Career
- Inter Press Service
If women like Judith Mussacula realise their aspirations to become the next generation of mozambican politicians, the country's future will be in safe hands.
Integrating HIV Care with Broader Maternal and Child Health
- Inter Press Service
From the outside, little has changed at the Maternal and Child Healthcare Clinic: pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers wait patiently on wooden benches. A chorus of infant call-and-response betrays the less long-suffering approach of their children to the wait.
FILM: What a Palestinian Girl Saw Through Her Window
- Inter Press Service
At the 331st meeting of the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held at United Nations headquarters Thursday, delegates made speeches most likely doomed to be lost in the abyss of countless Security Council resolutions, numerous rulings by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the basic provisions of the Geneva Conventions.
POLITICS-ZAMBIA: Days of Male Domination Numbered
- Inter Press Service
Elizabeth Phiri was so incensed when she was overlooked as a parliamentary candidate for the Patriotic Front in a 2008 by-election on the basis of her gender that she quit the party. Four years on, she has rejoined the party but remains pessimistic - but other women politicians see reasons to hope the 2011 elections will be different.
Cambodia Struggles to Stem Domestic Worker Abuse
- Inter Press Service
Cambodia’s fledgling domestic worker export industry continues to come under scrutiny amid allegations that women have been forcibly detained in privately run training centres.
Maldives Seeks 'Smooth Transition' for World's Poorest Nations
- Inter Press Service
When the environmentally-threatened Indian Ocean island of Maldives 'graduated' from the ranks of least developed countries (LDCs) to a middle-income country last January, the graduation was characterised as a milestone in the country's socioeconomic development.
JAPAN: Food and Gasoline Shortages Plague Nuclear Exclusion Zone
- Inter Press Service
For the past three days Hiroko Oogusa, 62 - following orders from the local authorities - has remained in her tightly shuttered home located 40 kilometres from the badly damaged Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
BANGLADESH-LIBYA: Garment Industry Pledges to Employ Evacuated Labourers
- Inter Press Service
Bangladesh’s garment factories and overseas recruiting agencies have pledged to employ a substantial number of Bangladeshi expatriates returning from politically volatile Libya, following the violent crackdown on opposition forces by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime there.
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