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In the four-year battle between rival factions to control Libya’s post-revolutionary political landscape, women journalists are highly visible and vulnerable. In part one of a two-part article, we present the voices of Libyan women forced into indefinite exile.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa infected more than 28,600 people and killed at least 11,315. After the World Health Organization said Ebola is no longer an emergency of international concern, Kate Thomas asked three Liberian women how the crisis impacted their lives.
Sharing food from their homeland is helping the San Francisco Bay Area’s women refugees to resettle in a new country, while raising awareness of migration and its difficulties.
Unable to work, socialize or bear children, more than two million women in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia suffer severe disabilities from childbirth-caused fistula – an entirely preventable injury. How can we eradicate this condition?
Without access to safe toilets, finding places to go at night puts women and girls at risk in regards to their health and personal safety. But building lavatories is expensive and unfeasible in areas without water or sewage systems. Is there a sustainable alternative?
Rainy Octura Wente is only the second woman on Sumba Island in eastern Indonesia to file for a divorce, after suffering domestic abuse. Now, she works for the Sumba Foundation, organizing a school lunch program and educating children about domestic violence.
Knowledge is a powerful tool in the fight to prevent perpetrators of violence against women acting with impunity. Sisters for Change co-founder Alison Gordon explains how her organization is training women in India and Indonesia to be community paralegals.
EngenderHealth’s chief executive officer, Ulla Müller, says that empowering women to recognize their right to family planning could save thousands of lives in poorer countries.
Faced with the grim reality that this year’s Arctic sea ice may once again hit the all-time record lows of 2012, scientists weigh up the subsequent risks.
In the West African country of Togo, aid agencies say thousands of girls fall into the hands of traffickers every year. Some manage to escape, only to be stigmatized by their communities, and are forced to work for a pittance.
In the second part of our interview with Room to Read co-founder John Wood, he explains how performance metrics and impact studies are revolutionizing how his NGO is rolling out its Girls’ Education Program – often with stunning results.
With breakthroughs in helping patients manage HIV/AIDS, the world’s attention has moved on to new pandemics. Nevertheless, AIDS continues to be the leading cause of death of women of reproductive age globally – and the key to understanding why is gender inequality.
Nihad was one of 5,000 Yazidi women and girls kidnapped by the Islamic State group. When she escaped, her suffering followed her to the refugee camps of Iraq. NGOs like Amar try to reach Nihad and other women who face social stigma and suffer psychological trauma.
It all started with a chance meeting with a Tibetan headmaster. One successful book drive later, former Microsoft executive John Wood decided to launch the child literacy NGO Room to Read. Now, Wood has turned his attention to girls’ education in developing countries.
Malawi has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. In 2012, a U.N. survey found that more than half of the country’s girls are married before the age of 18 and they are often treated as commodities, traded by parents driven by desperation or custom.
Despite advances in screening and new vaccines, cervical cancer is still a major cause of death for women in the developing world. We meet the people trying to bring simple solutions to a complex health issue.
Traditional anti-radicalization programs target young men deemed to be at risk of joining violent groups, but in Somalia women are now being recognized as important players in peace- and security-building to combat extremism.
Saba Ismail had her lightbulb moment when her cousin was forced to marry a much older man. Now the organization she co-founded, Aware Girls, is helping young women in Pakistan become agents of social change.
Charlotte Warren
A nurse by training, Charlotte Warren leads maternal and newborn health research for the Population Council. She argues for evidence-based action to reduce deaths through the detection and management of eclampsia and pre-eclampsia and ending physical abuse during childbirth.
New research suggests mental health services are failing migrant mothers in the U.K. and other developed countries. Campaigners are calling for an end to asylum policies that increase women’s vulnerability to depression and even suicidal thoughts.
A new four-year study has found that programs that educate girls, teach them about their rights and build their career skills reduce child marriage by up to one third.
Somalia could soon pass legislation that bans all forms of female genital mutilation (FGM), thanks in part to Ifrah Ahmed, a former refugee and Irish national who returned to Somalia to campaign for its eradication.
In Syria and its neighboring countries, an underground network of organ traders has sprung up, preying on the thousands affected by the five-year-long war and offering them desperately needed cash for nonessential organs.
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