News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 122
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Raising up Women as Light in Dark Times
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Mar 07 (IPS) - When I was a young girl, a friend and I spent our summers building a treehouse. We built it because our older brothers were building one and wouldn’t allow us to help them. So, we asked our parents to support us through the procurement of basic tools, collected scrap wood from the local hardware store, chose a tree, and then spent day after day puzzling beams and boards together into structure in which only people of our small size could fit.
Can 70% of the World's Poor Celebrate International Women's Day?
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Mar 07 (IPS) - The picture is gloomy: not only do women represent 70% of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of poverty, but also up to 40% of the poorest households in urban areas are headed by women.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Celebrating the Transformative Impact of Women as Non-Formal Educators
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 07 (IPS) - Women around the world play crucial roles in education as formal educators, school staff members, and parents of students. But women are also transforming education as non-formal educators in ways that can be scaled to improve education broadly. As we celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), it’s important that this transformative role is recognized.
Changing a System that Exploits Nature and Women, for a Sustainable Future
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Mar 07 (IPS) - "Pachamama (Mother Earth) is upset with all the damage we are doing to her," says Hilda Roca, an indigenous Peruvian farmer from Cusipata, in the Andes highlands of the department of Cuzco, referring to climate change and the havoc it is wreaking on her life and her environment.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - War, Want, Weather and Wellbeing: Where Are We Now?
- Inter Press Service
International Women’s Day, 2022 - To be Just, the Energy Transition Must Include & Empower Women
- Inter Press Service
PANAMA CITY, Mar 07 (IPS) - Access to clean energy improves women’s lives in a myriad of ways. It supports access to education and quality healthcare, opens new economic opportunities, and reduces unpaid domestic labour and gender-based violence. Yet too often, the sector as a whole – from industry to policymaking – still fails to include women as energy users, decision-makers and agents of change of the energy transition.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Gender Blind Spots in the Water Sector
- Inter Press Service
HAMILTON, Ontario, Mar 07 (IPS) - The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. UN Women estimates 150 million women and girls are emerging from poverty by 2030, thanks largely to comprehensive education, labor, and social protection strategies and reforms implemented by governments around the world.
‘Turn the clock forward on women’s rights’: UN chief’s International Women’s Day message
- UN News
Ahead of International Women’s Day, celebrated on 08 March, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has insisted that the world “cannot emerge from the pandemic with the clock spinning backwards on gender equality”.
Restoring safety and dignity to women in Malawi, displaced by Tropical Storm Ana
- UN News
Tropical Storm Ana left a trail of destruction in its wake in Malawi, particularly in hardest-hit southern districts, after it struck the country in late January. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has been at the forefront of efforts to help pregnant women and mothers by providing medical supplies, and reproductive services.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Women in Science – Are They Still Hidden Figures?
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Mar 04 (IPS) - Again we commemorate International Women’s Day – it is March, 8. We want to celebrate women’s achievements and raise awareness for their successes, taking action for equality. Today I would like to draw your attention to women in science and in particular to one outstanding scientist.
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