Credit Getty Images By ALEXANDRA SACKS M.D*. MAY 8, 2017 - For most women, pregnancy and new motherhood is a joy — at least some of the time. But most mothers also experience worry, disappointment, guilt, competition, frustration, and even anger and fear. . Learn More
Quality of Care Network for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health – 9 Countries
Kantu Fanta, mother of 6, nurses her baby at home in Amari Yewebesh Kebele of Amhara Region in Ethiopia, in July 2013. ©UNICEF/Ose While the rate of skilled care during childbirth has increased from 58% in 1990 to 73% in 2013, mostly due to increases in facility-based births, giving birth in a health facility does not equate with a safe birth. . Learn More
UN Names Women to 2 High Level Posts: Special Envoy on Sexual Violence in Conflict & Special Envoy on Children in Armed Conflict Inbox x
Children in a temporary learning space in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, soon after the country collapsed into civil war in 2013, which continues unabated. UN PHOTO By Kacie Candela • April 30, 2017 . Learn More
Indonesia – Survey Shows Violence Against Women Widespread in Indonesia
A woman in Jakarta, Indonesia. A new survey reveals women in the country face high rates of violence. © CEphoto, Uwe Aranas Author: UNFPA - Maria Endah Hulupi JAKARTA, Indonesia – Dita* never imagined that she would be a single mother at the age of 33. But after enduring 10 years of an abusive marriage, she found herself alone and struggling . Learn More
Internal Displacement Global Report 2017 – IDP Women & Girls
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre – Norwegian Refugee Council The 2017 Global Report on Internal Displacement presents the latest data and trends of internal displacement by conflict and disasters worldwide, and includes spotlights on countries, regions and issues of particular concern. . Learn More
Lessons from Indigenous Women & Farmers: Cultivate Democracy & Food Sovereignty
Jennifer Allsopp - 15 May 2017 Learning to live in harmony with the land is co-constituent to human rights activism. Jennifer Allsopp reports for 50.50 from the second day of the 2017 Nobel Women's Initiative conference. . Learn More
Mexico – Sex Trafficking & Child Marriages Linked – Study
Wedding Dresses Exhibit in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico The researchers interviewed 603 women working in the sex industry in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. . Learn More
Syrian Women Experts Panel CSW 61 – Ensuring Women’s Participation in Future Political & Economic Decision-Making in Syria Now
Outcomes of the CSW 61 Syrian Women Experts Panel: “Ensuring Women’s Participation in Future Political and Economic Decision-Making in Syria Now” March 2017, UN NYC . Learn More
Syria Woman Aged Over 100 Years En Route as a Refugee to Join Her Family in Europe
Eida, who is over 100, was the last remaining member of her family in Syria – Photo: UNHCR/Yorgos Kvvemitis Aged over 100, Syrian great-grandmother Eida Karmi planned to live out her days in her home village in NE Syria. She doubted she would ever see her family again after they fled the war and settled in Germany. Now in Greece, she is . Learn More
Somalia – Conflict & Famine – Gender
Overview History is at risk of tragically repeating itself. Once again, conflict-wracked Somalia is faced with mass hunger, just six years after a man-made famine took the lives of 250,000 people, mostly children, and 25 years after another killed 300,000, triggering . Learn More
PALESTINE – HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A WOMAN PRIMARILY LIVING IN THE DARK, IN GAZA?
By Yolande Knell - BBC News, Gaza City - 18 May 2017 Share Inside their apartment, south of Gaza City, the children of the Abu Shaban family are studying for their end-of-year exams by candlelight. "We have no electricity when we teach our children," says Suniya, their mother. "This problem will affect their grades a . Learn More
VENEZUELA – BEYOND THE PROTESTS, WOMEN’S DAILY DESPAIR – DIRE POVERTY, HUNGER, MEDICAL NEEDS
Venezuelans have taken to the streets in their tens of thousands over the past seven weeks in anti-government protests that have left at least 43 demonstrators dead and hundreds injured. They show no signs of abating. But lurking behind the political protests is a deepening humanitarian crisis that gets less press: Malnutrition has risen sharply, . Learn More
Japan – Imperial Succession Law Still Prevails – Princess Mako to Lose Royal Status by Marrying a Commoner
A member of Japan's royal family, Princess Mako, is to surrender her royal status by marrying a commoner. The 25-year-old eldest granddaughter of Emperor Akihito will become engaged to law firm worker Kei Komuro, also 25, whom she met while studying together. Japan's imperial law requires a princess to leave the royal family after marrying a . Learn More
Afghanistan – Women Fear Loss of Shelters as Funding Dwindles
In this April 5, 2017 photo, victims of violence sew at a shelter operated by the Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan, or HAWCA, an NGO, in Kabul, Afghanistan. . Learn More
USA – One In Six Newly Married Americans Has a Spouse of a Different Race or Ethnicity
John B.Georges and his wife Mythily Kamath Georges married in 2015. Photo credit: John B. Georges BY CARMEN CUSIDO – May 18, 2017 In the nearly half century since the landmark Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia made it possible for couples of different races and ethnicities to marry, such unions have increased fivefold among . Learn More
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