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MALAWI: Questions Over Water Stats
A set of new research data contests the Malawian government's claims that nearly all of the country’s urban citizens have access to clean water and sanitation.JAPAN: New Ruling Party Poised to Lift Foreign Press Restrictions
The newly elected Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) plans to open government organisations to the foreign press, party member Kuniko Tanioka revealed in an interview with IPS.POPULATION: 'Time to Shelve the ICPD Plan of Action’
At least 1.5 billion people aged 10 to 25 — the largest generation of young people in history — will need sexual and reproductive health services, says the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Q&A: Women Are Not Wallpaper
Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.
RIGHTS: U.N. Approves Long-Awaited New Women’s Agency
After more than three years of political foot-dragging, the 192-member General Assembly adopted a historic resolution Monday aimed at creating a new U.N. agency for women.
RIGHTS-AFRICA: The Fight Against Rape a Brutal Wait
From Monrovia’s highest hill, the long sliver of Atlantic Ocean shoreline at the mouth of the Mesurado River, with its aqua blue waves, golden sand and wooden fishing boats, looks like paradise. But this is West Point; one of Monrovia’s most impoverished and polluted slums, and it is not paradise.HEALTH-KENYA: A Glove To Save a Mother’s Life
The need for gloves for health workers assisting with childbirth may be obvious, but in Yala Sub-District Hospital in western Kenya, obvious does not mean available.
VENEZUELA: Women Recycle for Income and Environment
The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."
SOUTH SUDAN: Complicating the Vote for Women
In April 2010, the people of South Sudan will vote in a milestone general election, and for the first time, South Sudanese women will be able to participate.
MINING-INDIA: Woman Leads Tribals Against World’s Steel Maker
The fight against the world's biggest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, is being waged from a tiny tea stall in Ranchi, eastern India.RIGHTS-ITALY: Trafficking From Nigeria Rises Sharply
An alarming rise has been recorded in the number of Nigerian girls trafficked to Italy.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Crisis Chews Women Up, Spits Them Out
Vanessa Madrigal was working as a secretary for a private clinic in the Costa Rican capital, but only a month after returning from maternity leave she was fired, struck by one of the waves of layoffs that have swept across Central America in the wake of the global financial tsunami.
SOUTH AFRICA: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality
For Katriena Anthony, being four months pregnant comes with hazards particular to her living conditions.Q&A: Cross-Border Links to Boost Women’s Economic Empowerment
The Professional Women, Executives and Businesswomen’s Forum (PROWEB) organised a unique investment conference last week in Zimbabwe’s capital where businesswomen from South Africa and Zimbabwe got the opportunity to not only network but forge what may be a unique African association among businesswomen across national borders.SRI LANKA: Women Want Better Pay, Out of Free Trade Zones
The room is dingy and cramped. The walls are unplastered and its rough cement edges can scrape the skin easily. Furniture is strewn all over the place, plastic chairs stacked one on top of the other, boxes on top of them, handbags hanging from the wall and clothes on a rack. A small kerosene cooker is kept on the side of the room while a bicycle is parked next to the only bed in the 10-by-10-feet room.
Q&A: 'Princess Corps' Cracks the Glass Ceiling
Kuniko Tanioka is the woman to watch in Japanese politics.
LATIN AMERICA: Women in History – More than Just Heroines
Juana Azurduy or Manuela Sáenz, Bartolina Sisa or Gertrudis Bocanegra, Luisa Cáceres or Policarpa Salavarrieta - these heroines attest to the participation of women in the struggle for Latin America’s independence from Spain, a revolutionary movement that began two centuries ago this year.SOUTHERN AFRICA: "Women Can Be More Than Small-Scale Farmers"
"Government must lead in breaking down the stereotypes of women as tuck-shop owners, candle-makers, peasant farmers, teachers and nurses and create the reality in which they become hoteliers, large-scale commercial farmers, miners and proprietors of retail chains."RIGHTS-AFRICA: Ugandan Court Asked to Declare Bride Price Unconstitutional
Deborah Awori could not stop her husband from selling their 14-year-old daughter away in marriage using the time-honoured tradition of asking for a "bride price".DEVELOPMENT-BHUTAN: ‘GDP Fuels Consumerism’
A tiny kingdom located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered by China and India used to be one of the most isolated countries in the world until it became a full-fledged democracy in 2008.EDUCATION-ZAMBIA: Bicycles Help Girls Go Further
Nine kilometres each way, rain or shine: That's how far Suzanne Chisulo has to travel to school each day.« 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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