World Population Day --- July 11

IPS celebrates World Population Day with coverage from all over the world on issues like migration, education, health, indigenous issues, human rights and the financial crisis. This year?s theme is educating girls.
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SAUDI ARABIA: New Bill Fails to Protect Domestic Workers, HRW says
By Katie Mattern
WASHINGTON – Despite a bill passed by Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council on Wednesday, a prominent New York-based human rights group is asking for more protection for the estimated 1.5 million domestic workers in the country.
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AUSTRALIA: Uplifting Aboriginals, a Matter of “Urgent National Significance”
By Neena Bhandari
WADEYE – In this remote Aboriginal town, 420 km south-west of Darwin, Northern Territory?s capital, third world living conditions still prevail despite the Australian government?s efforts to improve life for its oldest inhabitants.
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GUATEMALA: Population Growth Impacts Migration
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY – Marco Tulio Guerra went to work as usual that morning at the meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. But his life was turned upside down when immigration agents swept into his workplace and arrested him along with another 388 foreign workers. Their crime: using false Social Security numbers
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PAKISTAN: Displacement Traumatic for Pregnant Women
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR – Pregnant women uprooted by the violence in the Malakand region, northwest Pakistan, have suffered acutely in refugee camps for the internally displaced.
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Poorest Countries to Bear Brunt of Growth
By Ben Case
UNITED NATIONS – The world’s population – already at least 6.7 billion people – will double in the next 40 years if current growth rates are left unchecked, warns the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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CHINA: Chinese Question Government's One-Child Policy
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING – When China's population control was imposed in 1980, it was meant to be a temporary measure which the government promised to phase out in three decades. It was intended to halt the baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s.
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