Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are stuck in Greece and hope to claim asylum in the EU. Photo: AFP December 13, 2019 - Mired in the mud, living under a plastic tarpaulin next to overflowing bins, 18-year-old Afghan Merziyeh Eskandari knows she faces another hard day in the migrant camp on the Greek island of Chios. The daily routine starts . Learn More
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5 Ways to Close the Gender Gap for Women in STEM
Immunologist Shruti Naik is trying to recruit and retain more women and minorities in STEM. According to a new study, 91 percent of women who work in STEM admitted that gender discrimination remains a career obstacle. By Renee Morad – October 23, 2019 It’s a good time to be a woman who works in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering or . Learn More
Bhutan – Nuns & Monks Break the Silence on Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights in Bhutan
Nuns, also known as Anims, play a critical role in spreading accurate information about health and rights to communities. © UNFPA Bhutan/Nilanjana Bose By Nilanjana Bose 4 November 2019 - Thimphu, BHUTAN – "There was a time when I would be menstruating and didn’t know what to do during those days… Now I do.” These candid reflections came from an . Learn More
Philanthropy for the Women’s Movement, Not Just ‘Empowerment’
2018 “Green Wave” demontrations in Argentina, calling for the decriminalization of abortion. (Photo by Fotografías Emergentes/licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0) By Françoise Girard - Nov. 4, 2019 Abundant data shows that the most effective way for philanthropists to advance women’s rights worldwide is to directly invest . Learn More
Women, Cities & The Sustainable Development Goals
Women selling and shopping in Bamako, Mali’s capital city By Dr. Susan M. Blaustein* One of the most profound and impactful insights behind the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals has been the understanding that every one of these Goals — ending poverty and hunger, ensuring access to health care, quality education, clean water, . Learn More
No Gender Equality Globally Without Women’s Empowerment
Rohingya refugee children attend a class to learn Burmese language at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain By Sarah Costa | Women's Refugee Commission, Inc. 23 September 2019 -Displaced women and girls are especially vulnerable - they must be given equal access to resources and a seat at the . Learn More
Pakistan – Overcoming Culture of Silence on Menstruation in Rural Areas – Women Making Sanitary Pads to Break Period Taboo
By AFP - 15 September 2019 Bent over her hand-crank sewing machine, Hajra Bibi carefully stitches sanitary pads for the women of her mountainous village in northwestern Pakistan, one of many rural areas in the deeply conservative country where periods are still taboo. "I am responding to a crisis," said the 35-year-old mother, sitting in front . Learn More
Pakistan NW – Rule Overturned So Schoolgirls Not Forced to Wear Veils After Social Media Outcry
Two girls walk to school in Peshawar, NW Pakistan. PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Following a nationwide outcry, authorities in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have reversed orders making it compulsory for schoolgirls in two cities to wear garments covering their heads. Prime Minister Imran Khan's ruling Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI) said . Learn More
Afghanistan – High Girls’ Dropout of Education Due to Lack of Female Teachers
August 11, 2019 (MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Seventy-five percent of schoolgirls in eastern Nangarhar province leave their education incomplete owing to the shortage of female teachers, school buildings, cultural restrictions and underage marriages. However, the Nangarhar education department says it has accelerated efforts . Learn More
Myanmar – Debate on Women’s Rights Amid Pervasive Sexual & Domestic Violence
Laborers work at a garment factory in Yangon, Myanmar, on November 1, 2018.Ye Aung Thu / AFP / Getty Images By Stephanie Miedema & Tharaphi Than December 22, 2018 - For years, feminists in Myanmar have been fighting to gain even the most basic legal rights for women. Spousal abuse is still legal in the isolated country. Even criminal sexual . Learn More
VENEZUELA – THE GENDER REALITIES OF THE VENEZUELAN TRAGEDY – WOMEN & GIRLS – TRAFFICKING VIOLENCE & EXPLOITATION, PROSTITUTION, LACK OF FOOD, INADEQATE MEDICAL CARE, BORDER ISSUES +
Venezuelan women await food donations in Boa Vista, Brazil (Photo: Andre Coelho / Bloomberg) By Noemí Pérez Vásquez, an independent human rights law consultant and PhD Candidate at SOAS, University of London. July 26, 2019 - One of my childhood memories is being in a playground and playing Miss Venezuela. It was no small thing. We grew up taking . Learn More
NEPAL – REMOTE DISTRICT BECOMES THE FIRST TO END ISOLATING WOMEN IN HUTS DURING MENSTRUATION
Women in rural Nepal are commonly banished to derelict huts while menstruating, in a practice known as chhaupadi CREDIT: PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP Despite being made illegal in 2017, chhaupadi remains endemic in remote, rural areas as it has been practiced for generations. By Joe Wallen, New Delhi July 24, 2019 - A remote district in the west of Nepal . Learn More
TURKEY – PROGRESS ON GENDER QUALITY IN EDUCATION RESTS ON GENDER POLITICS
By Batuhan Aydagül In 2004, Turkey was among the 21 countries in the world considered to be at risk of achieving gender parity in primary and secondary education by either 2005 or 2015.[1] Among its peers in this notorious group, Turkey was the richest country (based on GDP per capita), the only OECD member and the sole representative of the . Learn More
Global Campaign Launched to Combat Harassment & Exploitation of Women in Football/Soccer
Campaign in a world of football/soccer that has allowed coaches, staff and officials to misuse their power in the treatment of women and girls in the sport. AFP/Getty Images By Kim Sengupta Diplomatic Editor – July 4, 2019 The campaign is being backed by, among others, by Aleksandr Ceferin, the President of Uefa and former international . Learn More
AFGHANISTAN – KUCHI NOMADIC WOMEN – STRICT GENDER RULES, HIGH VULNERABILITY
Kuchi women in Parwan province district share their stories. Image Credit: Ritu Mahendru In the hidden world of Kuchi nomads, women are denied education, raped, and exchanged for water. By Ritu Mahendru for The Diplomat Every woman in this country has a hundred owners. It’s always been like that. Fathers, brothers, uncles, neighbors. They all . Learn More
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