Gender

Sowing a Healthier Future

By Claudia Ciobanu
“If there was enough political will to defeat hunger, we would defeat it right now - immediately,” says Enrique Yeves, chief of corporate communications at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

Keeping Food Security Central to U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda

By Thalif Deen
As the United Nations prepares to launch an ambitious post-2015 development agenda, the message from one of its Rome-based agencies is unequivocal: the eradication of hunger and malnutrition should remain a high priority when the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) end in 2015.

Indian Farmers Flex Collective Muscles

By Stella Paul
Chelmet Padmamma, 42, of Babanagar village in southern India’s drought-prone Medak district, is a happy woman: the rain has come earlier this year, thrice soaking the three-acre farm that she co-owns with four other women from her village.

OP-ED: In South Sudan, Ending Child Marriage Will Require a Comprehensive Approach

By Agnes Odhiambo
Akech B. loved to study and dreamed of becoming a nurse. But when she was 14, her uncle who was raising her forced her to leave school to marry a man Akech described as old and gray-haired. The man paid 75 cows as dowry for Akech. He was already married to another woman with whom he had several children. 

‘Happy Prostitutes’ AIDS Campaign Sparks Debate

By Fabiana Frayssinet
Happiness, the subject of endless philosophical discussions, has now become the focus of controversy in an HIV/AIDS prevention campaign aimed at prostitutes in Brazil. The campaign chief has been booted out and a further question has been raised: What are the limits of popular participation in the definition of public policies?

Scales Tip Towards Women in Jewish Religious Rights Struggle

By Pierre Klochendler
The struggle for gender equality and Jewish pluralism took a highly symbolic turn on Sunday at the Western Wall, Judaism's most revered site and emblem of unity, as a group of women known as "Women of the Wall" prayed legally and in a way they saw fit.

Indian Women Talk About Sex – in Cyberspace

By Ranjita Biswas
When 30-year-old Rita Datta (not her real name) decided on a whim to take a computer literacy course, she fell through the metaphoric looking glass into a virtual reality where the most taboo subject in India was transformed into the most simple and natural topic of conversation: sex.

The Girl Who Couldn’t Herd Goats Now Saves Lives

By Miriam Gathigah
When she was nine years old, Jane Meriwas, a Samburu from the Kipsing Plains in Kenya’s Rift Valley region, was considered of no use by her father. After all, nine of his goats had been eaten by hyenas under her watch.

How to Close Latin America’s Rich-Poor Chasm

By Cydney Hargis
Latin American governments have increasingly been working to lessen inequality in the region, but new data suggests their efforts vary widely in quality and impact.

Q&A: “The U.N. Is Too Slow to Respond to Crisis”

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
As the situation in Myanmar deteriorates, thousands of Rohingyas have fled the country in search of a safe haven.

Q&A: Women Hardest Hit by Growing Austerity Measures

By Thalif Deen
The widespread financial crisis in Europe, and its negative fallout in the developing world, has triggered severe austerity measures worldwide.

BOOKS: The Brothel Next Door

By Silvia Romanelli
The underground sex trade is closer to our everyday world than we may think.

International Community Urged to Declare “War on Food Waste”

By Carey L. Biron
A quarter of all food calories grown for human consumption is being lost or wasted, either purposefully or otherwise, according to new estimates.

Battle Against Hunger Lost Without Gender Empowerment

By Thalif Deen
When the United Nations launched its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2001, two of its primary objectives were to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 and promote gender empowerment worldwide.

Malnutrition Still Killing Three Million Children Under Five

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
Kevin’s Carter’s disturbing picture of the 1993 famine in Sudan won him a Pulitzer Prize.

U.N. GA Cold Shoulders International Day Against Homophobia

By Thalif Deen
The 193-member U.N. General Assembly (UNGA), in its supreme wisdom, has declared over 100 commemorative "days" dedicated to peacekeepers, refugees, children, migrants, girl children, rural women and indigenous people, among others.

Anti-LGBT Rampage in Georgia Exposes Frustrations with the West

By Molly Corso
Georgia may be touted as the most pro-Western country in the South Caucasus, but the recent backlash against LGBT activists in Tbilisi underscores how wide the cultural divide is when it comes to defining democratic values.

Good Health Lies Just Across the Border

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Muzaffar Shah, a shopkeeper from Kabul, sits in a hospital waiting room, desperate for news. He has travelled nearly 300 km to get to the Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar, capital of northern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, where his wife is now in intensive care.

“I’ve Finally Got My Torah Back”

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
Growing up as a child, Trisha Arlin had never seen a woman rabbi. Back then, women were not allowed to read the Torah, nor were they allowed to serve in synagogues.

The Battle to Save DRC’s Mothers

By Taylor Toeka Kakala
"Many hospitals and health centres" that are not run by NGOs "do not meet health standards," according to Dominique Baabo, provincial medical inspector for North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Walmart, Gap Seek Separate Safety Standards for Bangladesh Factories

By Carey L. Biron
Top U.S. companies are now in negotiations to agree on new safety standards for their clothing-producing contractors in Bangladesh, a month after a garment factory’s collapse in Dhaka killed more than 1,100 workers.
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