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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 31, 2015
On the eve of a speech Ruchira Gupta was to give on International Women’s Day in New York as the recipient of a Woman of Distinction award, she got a strange email. Gupta, who has collected numerous awards for…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Poverty, Women
- Trishula Patel
- • February 9, 2015
HARARE, Zimbabwe – As maternal mortality remains the most lagging Millennium Development Goal and a new set of development goals is being written this year, one focus will undoubtedly stay fixed on decreasing maternal death rates in the developing…
- Categories: Africa, Health and Population, SDGs
- Suchismita Pai
- • November 24, 2014
PUNE, India — They came at her with knives and other weapons so that they could disrupt her meetings and prove her ineffective. When Sangeeta Banne became the first woman to head a local government council in the state…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, India, Women
- Aditi Bishnoi
- • November 24, 2014
NEW DELHI — Nearly two decades after the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, voices calling for inclusion of men and boys in the fight for gender equality and an end to violence against women have grown…
- Categories: Gender Violence, India, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 20, 2014
BAMAKO, Mali — In the primarily Francophone and Anglophone region of West Africa, Mali is said to have one of the highest rates of female genital mutilation, with about 91 percent of girls and women having undergone the circumcision…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Middle East, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 17, 2014
The tragic deaths of more than a dozen women in India recently, after being sterilized in assembly-line style by a doctor and his assistants eager to cash in on as many procedures as possible on a given day —…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Health and Population, India, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 3, 2014
During the six years that Gulnara Shahinian served as the first United Nations special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, she said on numerous occasions, as well as in a 2012 report to the General Assembly, that girls forced…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, UN Agencies, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 6, 2014
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — “Please don’t let the world forget us again.” The plea is heard everywhere by men as well as by women in the picturesque Balkan city of Sarajevo, the site of Europe’s most destructive…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, International Justice, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 18, 2014
Putting a new focus on maternal health and obstetric fistula in particular, which devastates the lives of women and girls in many poor countries, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has given its 2014 UN Population Award to an…
- Categories: UN Agencies, Women
- Johanna Higgs and Liga Rudzite
- • May 6, 2014
KURDISTAN, Iraq — For many women in Kurdistan, life is anything but honorable. We have come to this autonomous region in northern Iraq as social anthropologists to research violence against women — particularly, honor killings — by interviewing local…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 6, 2014
A few years ago in Ethiopia, a survey conducted for the government in the capital, Addis Ababa, discovered that 88 percent of a growing number of homeless older people as well as two-thirds of those living at home did…
- Categories: Health and Population, UN Agencies
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 18, 2013
Speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the third international conference on family planning, Anne C. Richard, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, urged strong support for United Nations efforts to promote the rights…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
- Elisa dos Santos
- • September 22, 2013
About 350,000 women die while pregnant or giving birth every year, up to 2 million newborns die within the first 24 hours of life, and 2.6 million stillbirths occur annually says the United Nations Population Fund. A push to…
- Categories: General Assembly, Health and Population, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2013
Latin American and Caribbean nations have pulled ahead of most other developing regions on numerous measures of economic growth and human progress in recent years. The region has one of the world’s lowest poverty levels; hunger has been reduced…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Latin America, Women
- Stephen Browne
- • August 7, 2013
At the end of 2012, Britain withdrew its membership from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, or Unido, the most recent of several major donor countries (including the United States and Canada) to do so. Although it has had…
- Categories: Development, UN Agencies
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