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☆ Husbands are legally allowed to rape their wives in India. Changing that would be ‘excessively harsh,’ government says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But punishing it as rape would “severely impact the conjugal relationship” and “have a far-reaching effect on the institution of marriage.”Classifying marital rape as a crime, “can be arguably considered to be excessively harsh and therefore, disproportionate,” the government said. The government’s written affidavit is its clearest position yet on the issue of marital rape in India. “It speaks to India’s acceptance of sexual violence in our culture,” said Ntasha Bhardwaj, a criminal justice and gender scholar. Arguing against child marital rape in that case was senior advocate Jayna Kothari. “It’s not like floodgates are going to be opened with hundreds of marital rape cases [being reported].

Persons: New Delhi CNN —, ”, criminalization, Ntasha Bhardwaj, “, Narendra Modi’s, ” Mariam Dhawale, criminalization –, Dibyangshu Sarkar, She’s, she’s, ” Dhawale, it’s, don’t, AIDWA’s Dhawale, ’ India’s, Jayna, Kothari, Dhawale, “ It’s, It’s Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, United Nations, Court, government’s Ministry of Home Affairs, Central Bureau of Investigation, CNN, All India Democratic Women’s Association, Getty, criminalization Locations: New Delhi, India, Britain, Delhi, ”, West Bengal, Kolkata, AFP, Madhya Pradesh

☆ More Women in Africa Are Using Long-Acting Contraception, Changing Lives
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Stephanie Nolen | Natalija Gormalova | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a busy day at the Kwapong Health Centre in rural Ghana, Beatrice Nyamekye put contraceptive implants into the arms of a half-dozen women, and gave eight or nine more a three-month hormonal injection to prevent pregnancy. A few sought condoms or birth control pills, but most wanted something longer lasting. “They like the implants and injections best of all,” said Ms. Nyamekye, a community health nurse. But that is changing as more women have been able to get methods that give them a fast, affordable and discreet boost of reproductive autonomy. Over the past decade, the number of women in the region using modern contraception has nearly doubled to 66 million.

Persons: Beatrice Nyamekye, ”, Nyamekye Organizations: Kwapong Health, United Nations Population Fund Locations: Ghana, Saharan Africa

☆ India wants to be the new China. Modi's shock election result shows it won't be easy.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The growth is in part thanks to a shift in supply chains and investment flows as companies try to stop relying solely on China. India's stock markets tanked on the shock election results, with the benchmark Sensex index crashing over 5% in one day on Tuesday following the news. Despite the knee-jerk reaction, most analysts are optimistic about India's economic outlook given that Modi is still in charge. He said India will do better to capitalize on its services industry, especially since so many Indians are English speakers.

Persons: —, Narendra Modi's, Modi, Atman Trivedi, China, Council's Trivedi, Vishnu Varathan, Raghuram Rajan, NPR's, It's, Rajan Organizations: Service, Indian, Business, Bharatiya Janata Party, —, Atlantic, Asia Center, Centre, Monitoring, Coalition, Albright, Group, Mizuho Bank, United Nations Population Fund, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Central Bank of India, International Monetary Fund Locations: China, India, Communist China, Asia, Japan

She passed away.”As Israel’s severe restrictions on aid entering the Gaza Strip drain essential supplies, displaced Palestinians told CNN they are struggling to feed their children. CNNFood shortages are reportedly the worst in northern Gaza, where Israel concentrated its military offensive in the early days of the war. Dr. Muhammad Salha, acting director of Al-Awda Hospital, in northern Gaza, told CNN medical workers are treating cases of dehydration, gastroenteritis, and hepatitis among women and children. The US military said it had, alongside the Royal Jordanian Air Force, parachuted more than 36,800 meals into northern Gaza that day. He told CNN that he injured his foot while trying to buy flour along Al-Rashid Street.

Persons: CNN — Anwar Abdul Nabi, Kamal Adwan, tenderly, Mila, Nabi, Ashraf Al, Hussam Abu Safiya, Israel, “, ”, Ikhlas Shehadeh, ” Anwar Abdul Nabi, Richard Peeperkorn, Dr, Muhammad Salha, ’ wombs, Mohammed Salem, Ahmad Salem, Kosay Al Nemer, Melanie Ward, Riyad Mansour, Faraj Abu Naji, Rashid Organizations: CNN, Kamal, Health, Hamas, Ministry of Health, Integrated Food Security, UNICEF State, United Nations Population Fund, World Health Organization, WHO, Al, Awda, Reuters, Humanitarian Affairs, Kamal Adwan Hospital, United Arab, Emirati Ministry of Defense, Royal Jordanian Air Force, Medical Aid, Israel Defense Forces, United Nations Locations: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Rafah, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Gaza City, ”, Kuwait, Rasheed, Palestinian, Al

☆ An Israeli strike near a hospital in Rafah killed at least 11 people, Gaza health officials say.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Anushka Patil | More About Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

An Israeli strike outside a hospital in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured dozens of other displaced Palestinians, including children, who were sheltering in tents nearby, the Gaza Health Ministry said. At least two health care workers, including a paramedic, were among those killed after the strike near the gate of the Emirati maternity hospital, the health ministry said. The victims of the strike were sheltering near the Emirati maternity hospital, one of the last hospitals still functioning in Gaza. The Emirati hospital is essentially “the last hope for pregnant women in the whole of Gaza,” Mr. Allen said. A strike so close to the hospital poses a “terrifying” risk to pregnant women, newborns and the overloaded health care workers trying to care for them, he added.

Persons: Abdul Fattah Abu Marai, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Dominic Allen, Mr, Allen Organizations: Gaza Health Ministry, “ Islamic, World Health Organization, United Nations Population Fund Locations: Israeli, Rafah, Gaza, Kuwaiti, stretchers, Gaza’s, State, Palestine

☆ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Sana Noor Haq | Rosa Rahimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

“They are weak now, they always have diarrhea, their faces are yellow,” El Jamara, whose family was displaced from northern Gaza, told CNN on January 9. “Unfortunately, many relatives and friends are still in the northern Gaza Strip, suffering a lot,” Hamouda, a father-of-three, told CNN. The first 1,000 days of a child’s life are “absolutely critical” for physical growth and cognitive development, Inglis told CNN. “It is not enough to meet my family’s needs at all,” the student, who is sheltering in a tent in Rafah, told CNN. “We simply don’t have enough, and we cannot keep up with the overwhelming needs of people on the ground,” she told CNN.

Persons: CNN — Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, El Jamara, Arif Husain, Martin Griffiths, “, ”, El, Mohammed Hamouda, Odeh Al, Haw, Hamouda, Yahya Hassouna, Israel, ” Hamouda, Jabalya, Gihan, Baz, ” El Baz, Hoor, Hazem Saeed Al, Mohammed Hamouda Hamouda, Abu Youssef Al, Rebecca Inglis, Inglis, Shadi Bleha, Khan Younis, OCHA, Mohammed Hamouda Juliette Touma, Naizi Organizations: CNN, Food Programme, Integrated Food Security, UN, of Health, “, Getty, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, Najjar Hospital, UNICEF, World Health Organization, United Nations Population Fund, WFP, OCHA, World, Al Locations: Rafah, Gaza, Israel, Egypt, “, Gaza City, AFP, East, Britain, Al, Territories, Deir al, Balah

delivery kits include instructions on reducing the risk of infection for pregnant women who may have to deliver their own babies in a crisis. And as their deliveries approach, many of the pregnant women “don’t know where they’re going to be in the next minute or the next day,” Mr. Allen said. The group said in a statement that women in Gaza have been losing their pregnancies from the stress and shock of the war. Itimad Abu Ward, a midwife and nurse who works as a public health officer for the W.H.O., was among those forced to flee northern Gaza. She said trying to care for pregnant women during the chaotic journey south was near impossible.

Persons: Israel, Dominic Allen, “, ” Mr, Allen, Itimad Abu Ward, Khan Younis, Abu Ward, Khan, ” Organizations: United Nations, United Nations Population Fund, Planning, Protection Association, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Nasser Hospital, Times, Training Center, Medicines Locations: Gaza, Egypt, Israel, Jabaliya

“We watched houses dropping as we drove, thinking we could die any minute,” she told CNN. Khan Younis had a population of just over 400,000 before the war. Nardeen Fares, 27, takes a selfie with her husband at Gaza Port, near Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip in May 2023. Over the weekend, concrete slabs were placed at the Egyptian side of the crossing, blocking all gates, a Palestinian border official told CNN Saturday. For my son, my unborn child and myself,” she told CNN.

Persons: CNN — Khulood Khaled, “, ”, ” Khulood, Khan Younis, Dominic Allen, Khan Younis –, Fares, ” Fares, ” She’s, Khan Younis won’t, Nasser, Allen, ” Allen, Antonio Guterres, Brink, Mona Ashour, Hashem Al, Ashour, Antony Blinken, Sameh Shoukry, Israel, Khulood, “ I’m, Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Chloe Liu, Niamh Kennedy Organizations: CNN, United Nations Population Fund, State, CNN Sunday, Nardeen, Israel, Sunday, Nasser Hospital, World Health Organization, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UN, . Locations: Karama, Gaza, Khan, Palestine, Israel, “, Gaza City, Gaza Port, Kizan, Saudi, Ashour, Palestinian, Egypt’s, Sinai, Egypt, Rafah

☆ India’s elderly population will double and overtake the number of children by 2050
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Charmaine Jacob | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

India's elderly population is predicted to double by 2050 and overtake the number of children in the country, according to the United Nations Population Fund. The number of people aged 60 and above will increase from 149 million in 2022 to 347 million in 2050, the UNFPA said in a report earlier this week. "By 2050, one in every five individuals will be an elderly in India," the UNFPA said. The amount of people aged 60 years and above worldwide is forecasted to double and hit 2.1 billion by 2050, the UNFPA said. "This increase in the number and share of older persons will be visible across all regions of the world," the report stated, highlighting that less developed regions will see a marginally higher increase in its elderly population.

Organizations: United Nations Population Fund, United Nations, UNFPA Locations: Srinagar, India

☆ A country slightly bigger than Texas is projected to match the US population by 2050 — and it shows how radically the world is changing
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Cork Gaines | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The rise is in contrast to a growing number of countries that will experience population declines. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyIt was recently World Population Day. "The population growth is, of course, partly explained by improvement in level and access to public health," Amare said. Michael Herrmann, an economic adviser with the United Nations Population Fund, told Africa News that without proper planning, it could be difficult to care for, educate, and employ a population growing that fast. "They want to create full employment for the people, and a growing population can raise the stakes in these efforts.

Persons: António Guterres, it's, Tighisti Amare, Amare, Michael Herrmann, Hermann Organizations: Service, United Nations, Google, Africa, Chatham House, United Nations Population Fund Locations: Nigeria, Wall, Silicon, India, China, Japan, Germany, Pakistan, Indonesia, Texas, Africa, London

☆ Insight: Rising domestic violence is a hidden front in Ukraine's war
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Layli Foroudi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Borniakova, an alleged victim of domestic violence by her husband, died in January, her body badly bruised. Registered cases of domestic violence in Ukraine initially fell after Russia invaded in February 2022, as millions of people fled the fighting. The office created a unit to oversee domestic violence court procedures in February, Usenko said. "If we can at least get a charge of domestic violence it will be a victory," Seheda said, adding that there was still a view among some judges and police officers that domestic violence was a private matter to be settled between a couple. She said an increase in registered domestic violence cases was partly a reflection that police are giving more attention to the issue.

Persons: Yakov Borniakov, Alina Smutko, Borniakova, Borniakova's, Kateryna Vedrentseva, Kateryna Levchenko, Tetyana Pogorila, Pogorila, Yulia Usenko, Usenko, Lilia Kalytiuk, Borniakov, Olga Dmitrichenko, Yulia Seheda, Seheda, Dmitrichenko, Layli Foroudi, Mike Collett, White, Daniel Flynn Organizations: Reuters, Dnipro, . Police, United Nations Population Fund, Police, Department for, Ukraine's, Prosecutor's, Dnipro . Police, Thomson Locations: Dnipro, Ukraine, DNIPRO, Russia, CENTRAL, Lviv

☆ A country slightly bigger than Texas is projected to match the US's population by 2050 — and it shows how radically the world is going to change over the next three decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Cork Gaines | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

It's World Population Day. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyHappy World Population Day. "The population growth is, of course, partly explained by improvement in level and access to public health," Amare said. Michael Herrmann, an economic adviser with United Nations Population Fund, told Africa News that without proper planning it can difficult to care for, educate, and employ a population growing that fast. "They want to create full employment for the people, and a growing population can raise the stakes in these efforts.

☆ Brazil census shows population growth at its slowest since 1872
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The United Nations Population Fund estimated that Brazil was the world's seventh most populous country in mid-2023. Yearly population growth between 2010 and 2022 reached 0.52%, the IGBE said, the lowest since the series started in 1872. Brazil's population growth has been slowing since the 1960s, which the agency said reflected lower birth rates. Reuters Graphics"In 2022, the annual growth rate has been reduced to less than half of what it was in 2010 (1.17%)," census technical coordinator Luciano Duarte said in a statement. Brazil's southeast continues to be its most populated region, hosting some 41.8% of its entire population or 84.8 million people.

Persons: Luciano Duarte, Gabriel Araujo, Steven Grattan, Emma Rumney Organizations: SAO PAULO, Brazilian Institute of Geography, United Nations Population Fund, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Brazil, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, IBGE

☆ Fact Check-Quote ‘children must have sexual partners’ falsely attributed to the UN
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A quote attributed to the United Nations about children having “sexual partners” is fabricated, and does not appear in guidance on childrens’ sexuality education cited in the false claims. “'Children must have sexual partners’ says United Nations,” reads a poster shared on Twitter that has been viewed more than 779,900 times (here). “CSE is falsely accused of sexualizing children, introducing sexually inappropriate material to young children too early, grooming them for sexual abuse, and promoting homosexuality. Reuters has previously debunked false claims circulating online about the UN advocating decriminalization of sex with children (here). The UN published guidelines on sexuality education for children, but did not say “children must have sexual partners.”This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

☆ India’s population is on track to exceed China’s, but a report says its workforce is weighed down by thousands of people with worthless college degrees
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

As India's population inches past China's, it remains burdened by a workforce with worthless degrees. This glut of incompetent workers comes as India's population is set to overtake China's by mid-2023, per the United Nations. While some colleges provide inadequate training, a private university in North India went one step further, and sold fake degrees. Bloomberg's report on India's failing education system comes as India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country. By mid-2023, India's population is estimated to reach 1.4286 billion, 2.9 million more than China's 1.4257 billion people, per the United Nations Population Fund's "State of World Population Report."

☆ Opinion: The world just tilted in India’s favor
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a columnist for World Politics Review. CNN —Imagine a world in which the world’s most populous country is a democracy. The United Nations Population Fund announced Wednesday that, according to its calculations, India’s 1.4 billion have already surpassed mainland China’s population, and will exceed all of China’s – including Hong Kong’s population – by the middle of this year. In addition to shrinking, China’s population is growing older. Today, after decades of breakneck economic growth, China’s population is much wealthier than India’s.

☆ India population will surpass China, UN says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Manveena Suri | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New Delhi, India CNN —India is set to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation, with almost 3 million more people by the middle of this year, data released by the United Nations on Wednesday showed. Based on the projections, India’s population by mid-year will reach 1.4286 billion, compared to China’s 1.4257 billion – 2.9 million fewer – according to the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) “State of World Population Report” for 2023. But the UN has been unable to determine a date this shift will take place, due to “uncertainty” about the data coming from China and India. By mid-year, the global population is estimated to hit 8.045 billion, the UN report said. And by 2050, eight countries will account for half the projected growth in global population: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania.

☆ India to have 2.9 million more people than China by mid-2023, UN estimate shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Yp Rajesh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The demographic data from the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) “State of World Population Report, 2023” estimates India’s population at 1,428.6 million or 1.4286 billion against 1.4257 billion for China. The United States is a distant third, with an estimated population of 340 million, the data showed. Population experts using previous data from the UN have projected India would go past China this month. Although India and China will account for more than one-third of the estimated global population of 8.045 billion, the population growth in both Asian giants has been slowing, at a much faster pace in China than in India. “The Indian survey findings suggest that population anxieties have seeped into large portions of the general public,” Andrea Wojnar, Representative for UNFPA India, said in a statement.

☆ Clitoris reconstruction offers hope to Kenyan women after childhood mutilation
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Mukelwa Hlatshwayo | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

That was the transformation being sought by about 60 Kenyan women who had undergone female genital mutilation, or FGM, during childhood and came forward for reconstructive surgery of the clitoris during a recent humanitarian operation in Nairobi. "I basically feel like I'm incomplete," said one patient, a 39-year-old police officer, who requested anonymity due to the intimate subject matter. Bowers had operated on hundreds of Kenyan women during two previous visits, in 2017 and 2019. Bowers said the surgery involves bringing part of the clitoral body to the surface so that women can feel it. "This really affected my life and that is why I opted to get the reconstruction surgery done."

☆ Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

"We are the Underground Railroad of 'Gattaca' babies and people who want to do genetic stuff with their kids," Malcolm told me. Ellison, meanwhile, who has two children in their 30s, has reportedly resumed having kids — with his 31-year-old girlfriend. "The person of this subculture really sees the pathway to immortality as being through having children," Simone said. The person of this subculture really sees the pathway to immortality as being through having children. Before she met Malcolm, Simone was convinced she wanted to live her life single and child-free.

☆ India's population growth slows as world reaches 8 billion
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Krishna N. Das | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NEW DELHI, Nov 15 (Reuters) - As the global population reaches 8 billion, India, formerly a powerful driver of the number of people on the planet, is experiencing a marked slowdown. The world's population is estimated by the United Nations to have hit 8 billion on Nov. 15, with China and India accounting for more than a third of the total. India estimates its population at 1.38 billion, slightly lower than the 1.4 billion that the World Bank estimates for China. But India's annual population growth has averaged 1.2% since 2011, compared with 1.7% in the 10 years previously, government figures show. That indicated that India's national population policies and health systems were working, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said in comments shared with Reuters.

☆ The YouTube prayer channel started during Covid that's become a global movement
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-21 | by ( Nimi Princewill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Eze's YouTube channel receives one of the highest Super Chat donations in the world, according to PlayboardAmong his ardent fans is award-winning Nigerian singer D'banj who tells CNN joining Eze's morning prayers has become a routine. Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh says she also connected with Eze's ministry early last year. He had started livestreaming hoping to inspire his congregation when the pandemic shut down all church services and attendance at his fledgling ministry, Streams of Joy International, dwindled. Eze's daily messages of encouragement later morphed into a daily online prayer network every weekday on YouTube and other video-sharing services. "People all over the world are accustomed to waking up and finding Pastor Jerry online," Eze says.

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