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Gayatri Parameswaran is part of a group of young Indian journalists and experts bringing sex advice to the country’s 520 million Hindi-speakers with Love Matters, the first website of its kind.
Dr. Sakena Yacoobi has been responsible for the education of tens of thousands of girls and women in Afghanistan and Pakistan, despite repeated threats. She tells Women and Girls Hub how she has kept her learning centers running during two decades of war.
When California searches for relief from the drought, and explores different solutions, from conserving water to desalination, one avenue that often gets overlooked is what’s under our feet – soil.
HIGH NORTH NEWS: As the cost of shipping fuel has dropped, operators have been less interested in taking Arctic shortcuts. Shipping traffic along Russia’s Northern Sea Route is in decline. Will it bounce back?
In part two of our story, the Blue Nile’s refugees, who vastly outnumber the host community in Maban, find themselves in a precarious situation, with meager sources of sustenance for both the refugees and hosts and a highly militarized environment.
Lake Mead, which stores Colorado River water used by California and other states, hit a record low last month. Here’s what this means for people who depend on the reservoir.
When the Polar Code takes effect in January 2017, it will strengthen the rules for many of the vessels sailing through Arctic waters. It will help protect the Arctic environment, but experts say gaps remain.
U.N. Women estimates that one in 10 of the nation’s women are victims of violence each year. Cape Town’s Sonke organization is tackling the issue by turning men into better husbands and fathers.
In Freetown, girls with disabilities are singing, dancing and acting to change attitudes about exclusion. Local non-profit One Family People develops these young leaders. Senior program manager Hadiatou Diallo explains their work and her inspiration.
Women in the former Soviet state used to deliver in large, damp, often freezing maternity rooms without any family support. Now an ambitious health program has reduced the maternal mortality rate by 40 percent over the past six years.
Following the influx of refugees from Sudan’s Blue Nile into Maban, South Sudan, the new arrivals and their host communities are struggling to live together amid strained political relations and an extreme dearth of resources.
Why is discussing pleasure in the context of sexual health and education overlooked? With a recent study showing unsafe sex to be the highest risk for women, Anne Philpott and Arushi Singh of the Pleasure Project believe it’s the key to mitigating this risk.
One year on from a devastating earthquake, a group of young Nepalese women are using an age-old craft as a new way to support their families and boost the local economy.
The only way to reinstate peace and stability in Syria is to document ongoing crimes in the hopes that those responsible will some day be brought to justice, according to a doctor working with Physicians for Human Rights along the Turkish border.
A comic book filled with myth, adventure and humor, written and illustrated by Inuit and northern Canadians, tells stories of the Far North – and quashes cliches.
One in three Kenyans aged 15 to 24 said they had, or knew someone who had, a sponsor who would buy them mobile phones, clothes or internet credit in exchange for sex, according to new research.
A month-long struggle between the two leading factions in the besieged suburb of Eastern Ghouta in Damascus ended last week when the parties agreed to a cease-fire. However, the dispute raises questions over the rule of Jaish al-Islam, the leading faction in the area.
Native fish populations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are critical. Peter Moyle, associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis, has some ideas on what we can do differently.
HIGH NORTH NEWS: For the first time, the High North has a hero. An international jury has selected former Finnish prime minister Paavo Lipponen as the inaugural winner of the High North Hero award.
In the concluding part of our series on female refugees, we explore the challenges of identifying abuse and exploitation of lone women on the move – who are highly susceptible to sex trafficking and sometimes coerced into “transactional sex” to pay their way forward.
An inexpensive and easy-to-administer drug can prevent women from bleeding to death after childbirth, but governments concerned about its alternative use in abortions are stopping the drug from saving mothers’ lives.
In Nepal, the stigma surrounding the “time of the month” often means girls are kept apart from their families. In this photo essay, seven girls from a rural district document their lives during their periods.
Overnight airstrikes reportedly carried out by the Russian air force hit civilian targets in rebel-held Idlib city in northwestern Syria, killing more than 60 civilians and putting two hospitals out of service.
Could Israel’s innovative use of water provide the answer for California and other water-strapped areas of the world? Seth Siegel, author of “Let There Be Water,” believes so. Here’s a look at his findings.
A vast pathway connecting roads, rail, pipelines, power and communications across northern Canada could bring huge benefits in trade and quality of life, says a new study. We spoke to one of its authors.
In the second installment of a three-part series, we visit women struggling to find shelter and make a living – two key problems the Women’s Refugee Commission cites as driving gender-based violence against urban refugees, especially in countries neighboring Syria.
Lack of access to clean water and sanitation facilities affects women and girls most. Jennifer Schorsch, president of Water.org, explains how it is women who step up to solve the problem themselves.
Mabel van Oranje is the chair of Girls Not Brides, a partnership of organizations around the globe dedicated to ending child marriage. She tells Women and Girls Hub why education is key to ending this harmful practice.
We gather together the highlights of our coverage of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, including key commentaries on the successes and failures of the 9,000-strong gathering.
Around one in 10 women refugees travelling through Europe is pregnant. Better coordinated approaches from states and NGOs are urgently needed to keep women and their newborn babies safe and well.
In this first installment of a three-part series, we explore the threats faced by female refugees, especially Syrian women – including the risk of being trafficked into the sex trade on their journeys to Europe and even after reaching its shores.
Women and girls are almost exclusively the target of programs to stop childhood weddings. Gender experts say change will only come if men and boys are also part of the conversation.
Brazil has one of the world’s highest rates of sexual violence – but little national acceptance of its machismo culture. The use of social media is giving women and girls the courage to demand change.
In Madagascar, maternal mortality rates are high as 80 percent of the population lives in rural areas with poor access to health services. Robin Erinesy’s unique transport brings his community the care it needs – as shown in this photo essay by JSI.
THE HUFFINGTON POST: In northern communities, fresh vegetables are expensive due to the high cost of shipping. Young adults are learning how to grow their own produce in greenhouses as a way to promote healthy – and affordable – eating.
Hundreds of women work as tappers on Liberia’s vast rubber plantations, extracting latex from hundreds of trees each day, most of them single mothers or war widows trying to create better lives for their children.
While the World Humanitarian Summit has vowed to strengthen the ‘rules of war,’ conflict remains the main factor in displacement – and the flight of civilians across borders will not subside until there are major reforms in the current system.
Amid the atrocities in Syria, participants at the World Humanitarian Summit vowed to strengthen the so-called rules of war, but without major reforms to the current system, these pledges will never reach the battlefield.
The drought has spurred a longer-term initiative to rethink the future of California’s urban water systems. In the first of a two-part interview, we talk with urban water expert David Sedlak, a professor at U.C. Berkeley.
A chance meeting at a cafe in Iqaluit leads to a tour of an artist’s studio. “Meet the North,” a series that ventures into the lives of some of the 4 million people who call the Arctic home, gets to know Mathew Nuqingaq.
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