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Every Child Alive: The Urgent Need to End Newborn Deaths

Every year, 2.6 million babies die before turning one month old. One million of them take their first and last breaths on the day they are born. However, millions of these young lives could be saved every year if every mother and every baby had access to affordable, quality health care, good nutrition and clean water. This report addresses the . Learn More

Global Indigenous Women Climate Defenders Speak Out Against US Border Militarization

Florence, AZ – April 24, 2018 – A delegation of Indigenous women climate defenders from Cameroon, Guatemala, Kenya, Nepal and Nicaragua spoke out from in front of Eloy detention center in Florence, Arizona to demand human rights for Indigenous Peoples and for others impacted by border militarization. The women, whose own lands and ways . Learn More

Egypt – Women Make Progress in Traditionally Male-Dominated Technology Field

Samira Negm, the CEO of Raye7, talks to attendees of the Egyptian Women in Technology conference, Cairo, Egypt, March 10, 2018. READ IN: العربية By Fatma Lotfi - April 4, 2018 CAIRO — Amid difficult economic circumstances and a job market where the participation of male workers is considerably higher than their female counterparts, Egyptian . Learn More

India – Dignity & Respect of India Women Are Personal, Family, Social & Cultural Issues That Must Be Addressed & Enforced

Tragic rape cases have shocked India. But the everyday suffering of 650 million Indian women and girls goes unnoticed Women protest against violence against women and children in Bangalore, April 2018. Photograph: Jagadeesh Nv/EPA By Deepa Narayan* - April 27, 2018 India is at war with its girls and women. The planned rape of eight-year-old . Learn More

Closing the Gender Gap in Politics

By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women This op-ed was originally published in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018 Report April 16, 2018 - Equality between women and men, and opportunities for women’s voices and leadership at all levels of decision-making have been globally . Learn More

Turkey – Women Demand Safer, Cleaner Spaces in Mosques

Women attend Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the courtyard of Sultanahmet Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey. REUTERS/Murad Sezer By Pinar Tremblay - April 26, 2018 In October 2017, a group of Muslim women launched a campaign on social media called Women in Mosques with the hashtag . Learn More

China – Tech Companies Pledge to Delete Gender Discriminatory Job Ads, Following HRW Report

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/26/chinese-tech-companies-delete-gender-discriminatory-job-ads By Sophie Richardson – HRW China Director April 26, 2018 - The response to the release this week of a major Human Rights Watch report on gender discrimination and sexual objectification in Chinese advertising has been surprisingly quick. Alibaba, . Learn More

India – Death Penalty for Child Rape Unlikely to Deter Traffickers

April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton A series of child rape cases has sparked outrage in India but an increase in the sex trafficking of children has failed to ignite a similar national outcry By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI, April 24, 2018 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - People selling children into India's sex trade are unlikely to be . Learn More

South Africa – Women in the Mining Industry

Photo Credit: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images) By Andrew Green - 2017 It has been 15 years since South Africa introduced its first proposed quotas to encourage the mining industry to hire women. The quotas, which were included in the country’s draft mining charter, were a marked change in a country that once prevented women from even entering . Learn More

Nepal – Woman to Woman Success – Village Women Emerging from Poverty to Better Skills & Pay, Social Progress & Status

Photo of Nepal Village Women Agriculture Training I am Prativa Subedi, - prativasub@gmail.com founding President of Women Awareness Centre Nepal. Women Awareness Center Nepal (WACN) is a social and economic justice non-profit organization entirely run by women which promotes social and economic empowerment, development opportunities and equality . Learn More

Syrian Women in a Turkish Border Town Empower Each Other with Language & Vocational Skills

A vocational training center is helping Syrian refugees build new lives in the peaceful Turkish border town of Kilis, but more funding is needed to keep it going. Women smile at the Kareemat community center in Kilis, Turkey, in this picture posted on Facebook. By Tara Kangarlou - April 12, 2018 KILIS, Turkey — On March 24, the Turkish army . Learn More

India – Child Sexual Abuse Victims Face Serious Hurdles, Hardships for Justice – Report

By - Sonam Saigal – Mumbai – April 11, 2018 INDIA – REPORT BY MAJLIS NGO HIGHLIGHTS THE PROBLEMS CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS FACE AT POLICE STATIONS, HOSPITALS, COURTS, CHILD WELFARE COMMITTEES, & GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS Victims of child sexual abuse face hardships when they approach the police, hospital, child welfare committee (CWC), . Learn More

Tanzania – Radio & Mobile Phones Bring Life-Changing Solutions to Rural Women

March 7, 2018 - As thousands of farmers in central Tanzania battle with long spells of dry weather and erratic rainfall, with little hope of feeding their families, Juliana Yusuph is no longer worried. The 39-year-old mother of five is one of the many smallholder farmers who now successfully grow sorghum, thanks to a mobile phone and radio . Learn More

CSW 62 Women’s Perspectives on Why They Came & What They Take Back

Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown Voices from CSW62 March 28, 2018 - More than 4,300 civil society representatives from 130 countries participated in the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62), which focused this year on rural women and girls. Why do they come and what do they take back with them from this UN meeting? Here are . Learn More

Spirit Aligned Indigenous Women Leadership Program

The Spirit Aligned Indigenous Women Leadership Program The eight Indigenous women Elders are acknowledged and celebrated for being vessels of their traditional ways and for leading in sustaining and creating legacies of strength and resilience for their own people, for all Native peoples and for all of humanity. We honor their gift of ancestral . Learn More