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The state of Assam has the highest rate of child trafficking in India, according to official statistics. Traffickers buy young girls for a few thousand rupees, promising parents they will educate the children. Sometimes it’s only dead bodies that return home.
Ten percent of women experience infertility, but policymakers and health bodies don’t see it as a priority. Some experts say the inability to have children should be considered a human rights issue, and are looking for ways to get treatment to everyone who needs it.
Abbey Kocan Executive Director, Kupona Foundation
Each year, 3,000 new cases of fistula are recorded in Tanzania, leaving thousands of women to suffer the stigma of chronic incontinence. But mobile technology makes it possible for NGOs to get women the help they need, writes Abbey Kocan of the Kupona Foundation.
John Bongaarts Vice President and Distinguished Scholar, Population Council
Putting more money into family planning programs in the developing world makes populations healthier and boosts national stability, writes John Bongaarts, vice president of the Population Council.
The trafficking of young women is on the rise in India, but poor documentation, corruption and discrimination mean the crime is largely ignored.
Strict abortion laws criminalize obstetric emergencies that end in stillbirth or miscarriage. This is one reason the U.N. and NGOs say such laws discriminate against women and should be changed.
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.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the former finance minister of Nigeria who is now the chair of the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. She tells Women and Girls Hub how educating women can save money and reduce the spread of disease.
Nosakhare Orobaton Served as Chief of Party to John Snow Inc.'s USAID-funded Targeted States High Impact Project
Bolaji Fapohunda Senior Technical Advisor, Monitoring & Evaluation, JSI
Anne Austin Consultant, JSI
It’s not cultural preferences that force women to give birth alone: poverty and lack of supportive health policies do. Nosa Orobaton, Bolaji Fapohunda and Anne Austin share insights from health policies – where one in five women give birth with no help.
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.
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?
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.
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