Gender
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Unequal access and low quality of maternal health care hampering progress towards SDGs
Sep 18, 2016News 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... -
IYAFP Bangladesh organized National Youth Conference on Family Planning for the first time
Sep 6, 2016News 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... -
UK Aid supports access to education for teenage pregnant girls
Aug 26, 2016News 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,... -
Men prevent violence against women in refugee camps
Aug 20, 2016News 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... -
Dancing saved Girlene’s life
Aug 14, 2016News 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... -
Women’s rights activists treated as ‘enemies of the state’ in renewed crackdown
Aug 10, 2016News 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... -
Mozambique’s Women and girls are at greatest risk because of drought crisis
Aug 10, 2016News 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... -
Muslim women are the first to pay the price for Islamophobia in Europe
Jul 28, 2016News Hour: Muslim women are the first to pay the price for Islamophobia in Europe. That was the finding of the first European research report to be conducted on discrimination against Muslim women by the European... -
Gambia passed law banning child marriage
Jul 22, 2016News Hour: Gambia passed a law banning child marriage on Thursday and introduced heavy jail terms for anyone who breaks the new rules, reports BSS. Under the new law, a man who marries an underage girl... -
“Women in Digital Mymensingh” workshop is going to held in Mymensingh
Jul 21, 2016News Hour: Women In Digital (WIDBD) is an initiative of a Social Enterprise that has created programs to help women advance by providing access to Digital Platform. This new initiative aims to facilitate female creativity to...