Defeating Malaria vital to achieving global development targets – Migiro Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon inspects a mosquito net at Mwandama Millennium Village, Malawi in May 2010 July 2010 – The fight against malaria is integral to boosting women’s and children’s health and achieving the other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told Africa leaders, urging them to build on the progress made so far to defeat the disease. “If you continue to see … [Read more...]
Africa: Antiretroviral Gel Offers Hope to Women
July 22, 2010 by
When women from the predominantly rural Vulindela district in KwaZulu-Natal first began participating in an HIV-prevention trail many were unable to negotiate the use of condoms or even discuss safe sex with their partners. But as they used the discreet Antiretroviral (ARV) Microbicide Gel, for the first time Women - who bear the brunt of the HIV epidemic in Africa - were in Control of an HIV-Prevention Method. And empowerment for almost 900 women turned into hope for millions of women … [Read more...]
UNHCR – US$33 million programme rewards decades of hospitality in Bangladesh~CELEBRATE!
July 22, 2010 by
TEKNAF, Bangladesh, July 2010 (UNHCR) For Bangladeshi women with pregnancy complications in this poverty-stricken area an emergency transfer to hospital is often beyond their budgets and can be life-threatening. They either have to pay for fuel for the three-hour trip by government ambulance to a hospital in the nearest big town, Cox's Bazar, or risk a long ride over rutted roads in a motorized rickshaw – sometimes too dangerous to contemplate. But two Bangladeshi women facing labour … [Read more...]
$$$ Seeking Educational Aid for Child Development Programmes – Senanu Hatse
July 13, 2010 by
A Celebration of Women is honored to be of assistance to this Project. These little Children need computers for their school. On behalf of Mr. Hatse and his associates at The Young and Lonely Foundation , we are asking for any and all DONATIONS, no amount is too small. Please contact Mr. Hatse directly, with access below. Educational Aid for Child Development Programmes Human Capacity Development Programmes Box CT 4824, CANTONMENTS ACCRA, Ghana. Tel: +233 -243 66 7872 E - Mail: … [Read more...]
Viet Nam – Girls vs. Boys
July 13, 2010 by
When Girls Don’t Count as Much as Boys: Pre-natal Sex Selection in Viet Nam YEN HA VILLAGE, Viet Nam — May 19 was a special day for Thuy and her husband Nghe. Their son was one month old and, as dictated by Vietnamese tradition, they invited their relatives for a party. It was a big reunion, with more than 15 people celebrating the arrival of the new baby. And because it was a baby boy, after three girls, the celebration was all the more heartfelt. Son preference in Viet Nam has deep … [Read more...]
Time Use Studies and Unpaid Care Work
July 12, 2010 by
Time Use Studies and Unpaid Care Work Programme Area: Gender and Development Project Title: Political and Social Economy of Care No. of Pages: 234 Across the world, unpaid care work—unpaid housework, care of persons, and "volunteer" work —is done predominantly by women. This is an area that has generally been neglected by economists as well as many development actors. Yet the amount of unpaid care work done and the way the burden of this work is distributed across … [Read more...]
Egypt: Focus on child labour
July 4, 2010 by
CAIRO, (IRIN) - Ahmed Ramadan, aged 13, works 11 hours a day in a bakery in Cairo's Kherbet Kheirala slum, where he says he works with hazardous machinery in unpleasantly hot surroundings, and is ill-treated by his employer. "I wake up at 6am every morning and hurry to the bakery to get the chance to work that day. The bakery uses four different children but only takes on the first to arrive," he told IRIN. If Ahmed manages to arrive first, he earns 15 Egyptian pounds (US$2.6) for the day, … [Read more...]
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) G20/G8 Analysis – End Poverty
June 23, 2010 by
As G-8 and G-20 leaders prepare to gather in Canada, new analysis issued by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the United Nations Millennium Campaign finds that, in absolute terms, many of the world's poorest countries are making the most overall progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - the set of promises world leaders made to significantly reduce extreme poverty, illiteracy and disease by 2015. Particularly relevant for G-8 countries are the findings which … [Read more...]
"Corrective Rape" – Will Any Excuse Do?
June 15, 2010 by
Corrective Rape ' Will Any Excuse Do? ' VIOLENCE is VIOLENCE~~STOP! "Corrective Rape," often accompanied by vicious beatings or even murder, is intended to punish lesbians for not being heterosexual. Female athletes are at higher risk because they are more likely to be out lesbians. Encouraging Girls to Play Sports is precarious under threat..... South African filmmaker Kgomotso Matsunyane (left) and former Olympic Gold Medalist Julie Foudy speak to potential donors at a … [Read more...]
BANGLADESH: Educating girls lowers maternal death rate
June 12, 2010 by
BANGLADESH: Educating girls lowers maternal death rate Photo: David Swanson/IRIN Girls' enrollment has jumped since 1991 WASHINGTON, DC, 11 June 2010 (IRIN) - Despite slow progress in increasing the number of skilled birth attendants, Bangladesh has made enormous reductions in maternal mortality by improving girls' education. The maternal mortality rate (MMR) more than halved in less than a decade, from 724 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1990, to 338 per 100,000 in … [Read more...]
UNFPA Executive Director Honoured for a Lifetime of Delivering for Women
June 10, 2010 by
09 June 2010 WASHINGTON, D. C. — UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya A. Obaid was presented an Award for a Lifetime of Delivering for Women at the close of an intense, three-day show of support for the women of the world. Director Thoraya A. Obaid The award was presented in the final plenary of the Women Deliver II conference by two of the NGO leaders who had interviewed Ms. Obaid before her appointment to head UNFPA: Amy Cohen, former president of Population Action International and Jill … [Read more...]
