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Women, Girls Take U.N. Center Stage This Week

By ALANA ESPOSITO ● Politics ● March 11, 2015

Policy making currents are washing around girls and women at the U.N. now as a major rights proclamation turns 20 and a set of global development goals prepares to re-launch. Here’s taking some stock of it all, including a quick sampling of major milestones since 1995.

UN’s Goals for Gender Equality Have Made Progress

By ALANA ESPOSITO ● Politics ● March 6, 2015

As the U.N.’s global development goals face sunset, the two that particularly concern girls and women have marked progress but leave plenty of work ahead. That’s especially true when it comes to reducing maternal mortality in India and Nigeria.

Jordanian Filmmaker Tracks a Transgender’s Recovery

By ALANA ESPOSITO ● Arts & Culture ● July 5, 2013

For 26-year-old Maryam Jum’a, the story she found in the files of Jordan’s National Commission for Women was too compelling to ignore. She hopes it will help humanize an issue that many in the conservative society still treat as off-limits.

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