"Population decline" is a mild way to describe what could be a global demographic crisis, according to experts. But while migration may be the obvious solution, politics could get in the way.
It is the second-most common reason women are in jail in Senegal.
With the past week’s deadly attacks in Paris, Beirut, and Baghdad, the situation for refugees across the Middle East and Europe has become more complex and…
Cases of malaria threaten to increase dramatically from climate change as rising temperatures push mosquitoes to new areas and lengthen transmission seasons.
Links between the climate crisis and migration are intensifying in West Africa, where many people work in sectors vulnerable to climate-related extremes of weather and sea level rise.
Asylum-seeking refugees are stuck on the watery border between two of the planet’s most affluent nations.
Globally, boys and young men made up two-thirds of all deaths among young people in 2019. A recent report finds that many such deaths in this "neglected" age group are preventable.
Unmarried mothers are often denied government benefits. A debate over the policy is being propelled by a declining birthrate and a new generation of independent Chinese women.
Several thousand refugees are living in resettlement camps in the border villages of southeastern Nigeria and most of them struggle to access food, healthcare services, shelter, education, water and sanitation facilities.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the tiny town of Newtok, Alaska, could be completely underwater by 2017. Its 350 residents must relocate or stay to face the floods, but a move is easier said than done.
Cartoon. "and THIS is where nannies come from!"
Hong Kong is to pay new parents more than $2,500 for having a baby in a bid to boost its flagging birth rate, but many residents in the notoriously expensive city say that’s not enough – that in one of the world’s most expensive property markets it’ll barely cover a month’s rent.
The percentage of women who work in Japan is higher than ever, yet cultural norms have not caught up. More and more, women are rejecting the double standard.
The refugee debate creates the impression of unprecedented mass migration. That image is completely incorrect. The real question, when we look at migration globally, is why there is so little of it.
Nearly 400,000 people have already returned to the Indian state of Kerala from the Persian Gulf since May.
Black women in the United States are more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than any other demographic — and the Covid-19 pandemic may be exacerbating one of the starkest disparities in American health care.
A startling analysis from the Boston Public Health Commission shows the longest average life expectancy in Boston is nearly 92 years, for residents in a section of the Back Bay. Residents in a section of Roxbury have the shortest expected life span, just under 69 years.
“Raising a child just costs too much,” said a community worker whose job is to encourage families to have more children.
A number of new incentives encouraging people to have children highlight the challenges China faces in trying to boost its declining birthrate.
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