Gender

Family Planning Summit Offers New Hope

By A. D. McKenzie
The Summit on Family Planning that is taking place in London on Wednesday is a bid to get governments around the world to commit more resources to safeguarding women’s reproductive rights, according to the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

South Sudan’s Women Await Independence From Poverty

By Charlton Doki
One year after the formation of South Sudan, the country’s women say that independence has not resulted in the positive political, economic and social changes that they had hoped for.

Growing ‘Entertainment’ Industry Traps Nepali Girls

By Naresh Newar
Almost unnoticed, Nepal’s burgeoning adult entertainment industry has been drawing young girls away from being trafficked across the border to the fleshpots of India’s big cities.

South Africa’s National Health Insurance Sites Underfunded

By Laura Lopez Gonzalez
Experts say that underfunded pilot universal healthcare sites to be set up by South Africa as part of its proposed national health insurance may be doomed to fail as debate rages about how the move to more equitable healthcare will be funded.

Liberia’s Baby Blues – No Policy for Pregnant School Girls

By Winston Daryoue
Patricia Kollie should be at school today but instead she is at home in Gbarnga, Liberia, pounding a pile of cassava leaves in a wooden mortar. Her entire body is slightly swollen. Her dress fits a little too snug at the stomach.

Libya Prepares an Advance of the Young

By Rebecca Murray
On the eve of Libya’s historic elections for a General National Congress on Saturday, Jul. 7, the seaside capital’s bustling streets are lined with hundreds of campaign posters advertising electoral candidates - including those of women and youth - jockeying for a stake in their country’s future.

FILM: Murder and Threats Can’t Stop Fight for Gay Rights in Uganda

By Coralie Tripier
In Uganda, like in many sub-Saharan African countries, same-sex relationships are illegal and punishable by incarceration in prison for up to 14 years, legislation that is supported by a majority of Ugandans and influenced by the lobbying efforts of U.S. evangelical churches.

Green Bricks Pave Future for Female Workers

By Naimul Haq
At first glance the smart young women in white overcoats, black rubber boots and protective face masks seem out of place in impoverished Bangladesh’s dirtiest industry – brick making. 

Water and Slums Bright Spots in MDGs

By Carlota Cortes
An annual report card on the ambitious U.N.-led initiative known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) says that in three areas - poverty, slums and water – the goals have been met ahead of the 2015 deadline, but persistent gaps remain, notably in the critical area of maternal health.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Caribbean Women Caught in the Storm

By Patricia Grogg
Incorporating a gender focus in public policies for confronting and adapting to the impacts of climate change is still a pending task in the Caribbean, despite women’s proven skills in risk and disaster management.

Community Volunteers Convince Ugandan Families to Have Fewer Children

By Mantoe Phakathi
It is midmorning at the Kanungu Health Centre IV and the queue of patients grows as more people start to arrive for treatment at this rural facility more than 400 kilometres outside the Ugandan capital of Kampala.

MONGOLIA: Can New Electoral Law Help Women Enter Parliament?

By Pearly Jacob
If all goes as envisioned on Jun. 28, Mongolia's parliament will no longer be a male bastion.

Some Nurses Take Flight, Others Take to the Streets

By K. S. Harikrishnan
Nurses in India are up in arms against the deterioration of the nursing profession in the country, including unfair wages and the policies of private hospital managements.

China’s One-Child Policy Faces New Challenges

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
Graphic online photographs of seven month-pregnant Feng Jianmei lying prostrate on a hospital bed next to a bloody foetus have created outrage in China over the brutal enforcement of the controversial one-child-policy. The husband of the woman whose forced late-term abortion caused uproar worldwide has gone missing, according to his family.

Treatment of Gays No Better in South Africa

By Davison Mudzingwa
When Junior Mayema boarded a plane to South Africa from his native Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010, he cried tears of joy because he was finally heading to a country where he could live openly as a gay man.

Israeli Guns Hold University Degrees Away

By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
After more than 25 years spent fighting for women’s rights in the Gaza Strip, Andaleeb Shehadeh is now struggling for the right to complete her university education.
The Ugandan rebel group the Lord

Activists Working to Reinvigorate Campaign Against LRA

By Ethan Freedman
Activists are aiming to renew the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army, the Ugandan rebel group made infamous by its ruthless leader Joseph Kony, despite noticeably diminished concern for the issue just months after the release of a controversial yet viral video about the leader.
The omission of reproductive rights is a step backwards from previous agreements, said Gro Harlem Brundtland. UN Photo/Mark Garten

RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say Activists

By Thalif Deen
When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers.

Will the World Listen to Women?

By Zofeen Ebrahim
What does birth control have to do with reducing global emissions?

In One Haitian Camp, Life Offers Hardship and Little Hope

By Susan Robens-Brannon
In the remote, dusty and barren area of northern Port-au-Prince, Cannon Camp houses nearly 6,000 displaced Haitians in tiny and cramped spaces. Nestled among the smattering of tents is the home of a 50-something-year-old mother of 12.

Q&A: Film “Invisible War” Reveals Epidemic of Rape in U.S. Military

By Coralie Tripier
The US military is facing one of its biggest scandals, depicted in "Invisible War", Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering's latest documentary.
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