News headlines for “Human Population”, page 581
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.
Agricultural Policy Is Gender Policy
- Inter Press Service
Eva, a Ghanian woman, was given five pigs and some training on how best to care for them. Eventually, her farm grew to 400 pigs and she was able to buy more land and a motorbike which she not only used for transporting her goods to market but for helping neighbours get to town and to hospital quicker.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Convention Could Secure Decent Work for Domestic Workers
- Inter Press Service
Despite formal recognition of domestic workers' rights in South Africa, they still face a struggle for fair treatment.
PAKISTAN: Unsung Heroines Bring Healthcare to Villages
- Inter Press Service
At eight in the morning 30-year-old Sultana Solangi steps out of her house ready for her day’s work. Wearing a black gown that shows only her eyes, she is shod in comfortable slippers and lugs a large black bag.
MALAWI: Uncertainty Over Role for Traditional Birth Attendants
- Inter Press Service
When the ban on traditional birth attendants was lifted last year, pregnant women quickly appeared at Dorothy Chirwa's door in Malombe village in Mangochi, a district on the southern shores of Lake Malawi. Chirwa was among the thousands of TBAs banned from providing women with care in 2007.
PAKISTAN: Deaths of ‘Unwanted’ Babies On The Rise
- Inter Press Service
The graves at a cemetery in Moach Goth have no epitaphs, no verses from the Koran, not even the names of the deceased. The only inscription on the small wooden signs that serve as headstones is a number and the date of burial. The latest one is Number 72,315.
ITALY: Migrants Settle Into Permanent Struggle
- Inter Press Service
The momentous political events in North Africa have been accompanied by increasingly apocalyptic warnings from the Italian government of a mass influx of unwanted immigration from Tunisia and Libya.
Q&A: Needing Surgery Shouldn't Be a Death Sentence
- Inter Press Service
Surgery saves the lives of millions of people around the world, but only a tiny percent of them live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where a shortage of skills, supplies and infrastructure can turn easily treatable accidents and illnesses into lifelong disabilities and even death.
Botswana Parliament's Speaker a Well-Loved Woman
- Inter Press Service
It would have been hard for a teenaged Margaret Nnananyana Nasha to imagine that she would grow up to become one of the most powerful figures in Botswana's government.
PAKISTAN: At Home, and In Hell
- Inter Press Service
'Life is next to hell as we pass the entire day and night inside four walls of our houses. Militancy and the local male-dominated culture are the reasons for the women’s problems,' says Jabeena Bibi, 38, a resident of Khyber Agency, one of the seven tribal districts of the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of Pakistan.
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