The health crisis, and the subsequent widespread lockdowns worldwide, have led to a surge in violence against women. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women warns that women's rights could be diminished as a result of the pandemic. Interview by Laetitia Kaci, UNESCO In March 2020, you warned of an increase in gender inequality due . Learn More
Search Results for: Education Women & Girls
New Zealand Tackles “Period Poverty” With Free Sanitary Products for All Schoolgirls
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says sanitary items are a necessity, not a luxury. Photograph: Gregory_Lee/Getty Images/ By Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin 3 June 2020 - Girls in New Zealand high schools will no longer have to pay for sanitary products after the government announced it would foot the bill in an attempt to stamp out . Learn More
Why Investing in Women Helps Save the Planet
By Leah Rodriguez – April 28, 2020 Education, female empowerment, and climate-smart solutions can stop climate change. Women are more likely to live in poverty, be vulnerable to natural disasters, and experience the direct impacts of flooding and drought. But as activists Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and Vanessa Nakate can attest, they also hold . Learn More
Actions to Bring the Most Marginalized Girls to School After COVID-19
Photo - UNICEF/Frank Dejongh By Robert Jenkins & Rebecca Winthrop May 15, 2020 - The past two decades have been marked by outstanding gains in girls’ education worldwide, with the number of girls out of school dropping by 79 million. We cannot risk rolling back this progress. For some children, the impact of COVID-19 will be temporary. But . Learn More
Human Trafficking & Female Foeticide
April 13, 2020 - Three little girls crowd around a dust-bin in rural Central India. Anyone can tell you from just a glance at them that they are excited at something. In their minds, as it appears, they have found a doll. It doesn’t matter that their much coveted doll is sitting nestled in a pile of rotting garbage: what counts is that the doll is . Learn More
Kenya – Widows & Landlessness
By LEONIDA ODONGO - Kenya March 23, 2020 - Land means different things to different people. To farmers it means a source of food, a source of income and an assurance that their children will go to school, to a real estate agent, land means tenants and a livelihood. To indigenous communities land means life, continuity, a store for natural . Learn More
Afghanistan – Women & Girls with Disabilities Face Systemic Abuse
Barriers, Discrimination in Health Care, Education April 28, 2020 Report “Disability Is Not Weakness” The report, “‘Disability Is Not Weakness’: Discrimination and Barriers Facing Women and Girls with Disabilities in Afghanistan,” details the everyday barriers that Afghan women and girls with disabilities face in one of the world’s poorest . Learn More
We Won’t Get Women Out of Poverty Until We Leave Behind “One-Size-Fits-All” Interventions
Photo – Mexican Girls – ODI By Carmen Leon-Himmelstine Mexican girls walking together. 15 October 2019 - If the world is to live up to its commitment to eradicate extreme poverty for everyone everywhere by 2030, we need gender equality. There is growing recognition of this fact, but interventions are still failing to take into account the . Learn More
Australia – Analysis – The Greatest Human Rights Violation Is the Harm Men Do to Women
Rowan Baxter with Hannah Clarke and their children, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey. Baxter killed them all, but before Hannah died she detailed his crime to police. CREDIT:FACEBOOK By David Leser – February 28, 2020 It is no small task trying to unpack the history of any kind of hatred, especially if that hatred is misogyny. For the past 10 days – . Learn More
Growing Inequality for Women Should Shame the World – UN Chief
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses his statement, during the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) By Edith M. Lederer February 28, 2020 - UNITED NATIONS . Learn More
Powerful Women Through The Years
Men are prohibited in Tumai, central Kenya. Since 2001, this village has provided refuge for women of the Samburu tribe who have been victims of domestic violence. Photos: Nadia Ferroukhi - Text: Katerina Markelova In 2009, photographer Nadia Ferroukhi was on an assignment in Kenya. As she stepped out of the bus, which had stopped in the middle . Learn More
Asia-Pacific Countries Adopt Declaration to Advance Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment
December 2, 2019 - Bangkok, Thailand — Ministers and high-level officials from 45 countries in the Asia-Pacific region have committed to intensify priority actions towards realizing women’s rights and fundamental freedoms for an equal future. The Asia-Pacific Declaration on Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing+25 Review was . Learn More
Afghanistan – An Oscar Goes To A Documentary About Skateboarding Girls In Afghanistan
Students wearing headscarves and helmets learn to navigate traffic cones in a scene from the Oscar-winning documentary, "Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)." A&E IndieFilms/ Screenshot by NPR February 10, 2020 - The girls clutch their skateboards, biting their lips and fiddling with the wheels. They're learning how to . Learn More
Somalia – Will 2020 Be a Turning Point for Women & Girls in Somalia?
Attendees of the Somali Women's Convention in Mogadishu in March. (Ministry of Women and Human Rights Development of Somalia) By Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf* Somalia is at a crossroads in the promotion and protection of women’s rights. The Provisional Constitution, agreed upon in 2012, is currently being revised. In 2020, Somalis are to adopt their new . Learn More
Indonesia – Women’s Awakening Day – Many Backgrounds – Call for Rights & Justice
Women from all walks of life taking to the streets during the 'Perempuan Meruwat Negeri' (Women Heal the Nation) rally in Central Jakarta on Sunday (Dec 22). The rally was held to reclaim Dec 22 as women's awakening day instead of Mother's Day as declared by first president Soekarno. - Jakarta Post/ANN JAKARTA: “Women rise, women seek justice!” . Learn More
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- …
- 204
- Next Page »