Gender

News Hour: A new partnership between the UK Government and British and international businesses will help 300,000 women in the world’s poorest countries into more highly skilled and better-paid jobs, the International Development Secretary Priti Patel...

News Hour: Women Deliver and 10 partner organizations launched today the Deliver for Good campaign, a global initiative that applies a gender lens to the Sustainable Development Goals and promotes 12 critical investments in girls and...

News Hour: Each year, about 210 million women become pregnant and about 140 million newborn babies are delivered. While progress has been made in reducing maternal mortality globally, differences remain at international and national levels. The...

News Hour: The International Youth Alliance for Family Planning (IYAFP) and SERAC-Bangladesh, with the support from EngenderHealth, Ipas, and Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB) organized the Bangladesh 1st National Youth Conference on Family Planning (BNYCFP...

News Hour: The UK government is working with the Ministry of Education and Science and Technology (MEST) and UNICEF to ensure that young girls previously excluded from the system can return to full-time education. Guy Warrington,...

News Hour: Groups of men in Rwandan refugee camps are taking the lead to prevent abuse against women and girls thanks to training provided by Plan International. Since 2014, we have been serving as UNHCR’s sole...

News Hour: Over 500,000 people are raped in Brazil every year, but only 10% of cases are reported to police. Girlene, 30, from São Luís in Brazil, was abused by her father, raped by her stepfather...

News Hour: Iranian authorities have intensified their repression of women’s rights activists in the country in the first half of this year, carrying out a series of harsh interrogations and increasingly likening any collective initiative relating...

News Hour: An estimated 87,000 pregnant and lactating women affected by the current drought in Mozambique are in urgent need of nutritional assistance, warns the international humanitarian organisation CARE. “We need to make sure that this...

News Hour: Bangladeshi physician Dr. Nowsheen Sharmin Purabi is going to join an important fellowship training of Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs in the United States of America  in the first week of August 2016. She...