The push for male allies to be part of the women’s rights movement was prevalent at some events tied to the Commission on the Status of Women happening this week. One panel highlighted #thingsmendo.
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.
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.
The prevention of pregnancy and STDs are consistently taught. But women’s right to choose their own contraception or the idea that access to reproductive rights is a key component of gender equality can get overlooked. The French secretary of women’s rights wants to correct that.
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.
Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghanistan Institute of Learning proved particularly quotable. The conference she joined is part of the 2015 annual International Women’s Day Forum and was widely tweeted about via #USCCFwomen.
In Bangladesh only 27 percent of pregnant women have access to highly trained birth attendants. These teen volunteers are trained to meet pregnant women in their communities and connect them to the most basic medical resources and information.
Campers from Pakistan, Afghanistan and India didn’t open up at first. But after they heard me voicing my own complaints they realized I wasn’t going to look down at them or depict the U.S. as a perfect place for girls and women. That’s when the sharing began.
The UN kicked off a campaign to empower and protect women from violence for the International Day for Eliminating Violence against Women. Also this week, women’s advocacy groups and labor unions joined national outcry over events in Ferguson.
On Nov. 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Ana María Enríquez spotlights women in Honduras who are being targeted by narco traffickers and corporate interests as they struggle to defend their land.
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