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Q&A: Harmonise the Efforts of African Scientists
As many as 100 million people in Africa suffer from schistosomiasis, a chronic illness caused by a parasite associated with freshwater snails. The schistosoma flatworm causes a debilitating illness that can damage internal organs, and stunt growth and cognitive development of children.
ZIMBABWE: Board Gives School System Failing Marks
Primary and secondary school education in Zimbabwe has "fallen woefully behind" other southern African countries due to shortages of textbooks and other materials as well as deteriorating working conditions and resultant low morale for teachers.
INDIA: Most Live Donors Are Wives or Mothers
Here's a statistic that reveals the truth about gender relations in India.ENVIRONMENT: Women on Front Lines of Climate Week
Women's voices remain highly underrepresented in the climate change debate, say international civil society leaders attending events taking place around the United Nations Climate Summit Tuesday.PAKISTAN: ‘Empty Stomachs’ Could Spark More Riots, Experts Warn
For a bag of flour, they risked life and limb.
POLITICS-ITALY: Don't Even Speak of Equality! – Part 2
Angelica Mucchi-Faina, psychology professor at the Perugia University, thinks that "in Italy you cannot even talk about equal opportunities for women in politics."
POLITICS-ITALY: Where Are the Women? – Part 1
Four ministers out of 21; 193 parliamentarians out of 952 (upper and lower houses); no party leaders. Why are there so few women in Italian politics?POLITICS-EAST TIMOR: ‘The Quality of Women Is Very Important’
For more than seven years, the men and women of East Timor have been working to rebuild their nation after a destructive 24-year occupation by the Indonesian army.RIGHTS-BANGLADESH: Glimmers of Hope Amid an Elusive Peace
Sultana Kamal dreams of a country "where every single citizen will live in democracy, in equality" and where everyone has "equal share to resources and opportunities." Fulfilling this dream has been her lifelong advocacy as a human rights advocate.
ITALY-LIBYA: Migrants Returned To Face Abuse
"They beat us. They beat everyone, men and women. They usually beat us in the same room where we were kept. But they took some people out of the room. Not me, but they took other women out of the room."
Q&A: Plants Know No Frontiers, They Grow Everywhere
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has spent the last two decades travelling among the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean studying plants.
LAOS: What People Cannot Eat is of Great Importance to Women – Part 2
"When I was born my mother could not eat anything but tiny fish and tea made from herbs for one whole year," says Dr Bhounsouane. "She was so weak that she could hardly walk. Post partum food taboos (phit kam) are a major problem in Laos for women," he said.
LAOS: Land Legislation Disempowers Women – Part 1
Ki is seven years old but looks more like three. His legs are bowed and skull misshapen. He looked at me with a blank stare. The health worker, Kheo, suggests rickets.
ARGENTINA: Women Judges Not Enough; Gender Awareness Training Needed
For Argentina’s justice system to truly incorporate a gender perspective, more important than overcoming the male-female imbalance in the higher rungs of the judicial branch is providing gender-awareness training for judges of both sexes so that it is reflected in their rulings, experts say.
Q&A: ‘Stiglitz-Sen Moving in the Right Direction, but Slowly’
Hazel Henderson is a futurist, an economic iconoclast, founder of Ethical Markets Media, and author of the books Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, Planetary Citizenship, and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy. Her main focus is exploring the "blind spots" in conventional economic theory.POPULATION: Where’s Family Planning on Climate Change Radar?
Are climate change and reproductive health two disparate subjects?RIGHTS-MEXICO: Wrongly Imprisoned Native Woman Released
"I cried a lot, I couldn't believe I was in prison. The day I was put in jail, I never thought I would be there for a long time," an indigenous market vendor, Jacinta Francisco, said Thursday in Mexico after she was released from prison, where she spent three years for a crime she did not commit.POLITICS: Post-Conflict Security in Need of Women
Women need to get involved more actively and more equally in the reform of the security sector in post-conflict states, says Ecoma Alaga, a Gender and Security Sector Reform (SSR) expert of the Women Peace and Security Network Africa.PARAGUAY: Health Insurance for All (Registered) Domestics
It took 42 years for social security health care coverage for domestics to extend beyond the limits of the Paraguayan capital.
MOZAMBIQUE: Building Awareness to Reduce Maternal Mortality
In the Niassa province of northwest Mozambique, one doctor has been working with local communities to overcome the delays responsible for three-quarters of maternal deaths each year.
GULF: Gender Discrimination in Citizenship Rights
There is inequality in citizenship laws for women and men in the Gulf Arab states.« Previous Page — Next Page »
Women make up half the world's population, but don't nearly share half of the world's wealth, well-being and opportunity. Two-thirds of the world poor are women, disproportionally exposing women to precarious living conditions, disease and unmitigated natural disasters. The media, meanwhile, remains a male-dominated sector in much of the world, contributing to women's voices lacking a crucial amplifier to put their concerns on political agendas and unleash the development potential of their ingenuity. Rather than then stereotypical victims of local and global forces, women are also organizer, innovators, conservators and community builders. These are some of their stories.
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