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News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 86
For first time, women represented in all parliaments of the world
- UN News
For the first time ever, there are women MPs in every single country on Earth, the Interparliamentary Union, IPU, said on Friday.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Unleashing Our Region’s Most Untapped Potential: Harnessing the Digital Age to Empower Women & Girls
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 01 (IPS) - New technologies and innovations are reshaping our world and its future, often at a dizzying pace. Yet women and girls continue to be left behind in this burgeoning digital universe. How, then, can we harness these developments to create a better future for all of us?
This year’s International Women’s Day theme, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality,” seeks to answer exactly that question.
Afghanistan still a grave humanitarian crisis, senior aid official says
- UN News
Climate change and the economic downturn continue to fuel the crisis in Afghanistan, and there have been no “encouraging developments” towards getting girls back into classrooms, a senior UN official said on Tuesday.
Russia and Ukraine: Civil Society Repression and Response
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Feb 24 (IPS) - Over the year since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, on one side of the border civil society has shown itself to be a vital part of the effort to save lives and protect rights – but on the other, it’s been repressed more ruthlessly than ever.
Beyond Zero Discrimination: A New Social Contract for Health and Care Workers
- Inter Press Service
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb 24 (IPS) - While its origins may be rooted in the discrimination faced by people living with HIV, Zero Discrimination Day has evolved to celebrate commitments to the fundamental human right of being treated equally in law and in practice.
Gender Central to Parliamentarians Programme of Action
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 23 (IPS) - The post-COVID-19 period has been a crucial one for members of parliament who have their work cut out to ensure that issues that arose during the pandemic are addressed, especially concerning the ICPD25 commitments and programmes of action for universal access to sexual and reproductive rights, gender-based violence and building peaceful, just and inclusive societies. Across the world, progress toward achieving the SDGs by 2030 was impacted during the pandemic.
In Zimbabwe, Economic Crisis Pushes Underaged Girls to Sex Work
- Inter Press Service
MUTARE, ZIMBABWE, Feb 23 (IPS) - After other adolescent girls her age have gone to bed at around 10 pm, Kudzai commutes to a shopping centre near her home in Penhalonga, a mining area 25 kilometres outside the third largest Zimbabwean city of Mutare, to look for men to solicit sex.
Every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth
- UN News
Maternal health setbacks in many parts of the world have contributed to the worrying finding that a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth around every two minutes, UN agencies said on Thursday.
BRAC Resets Program Aimed at Empowering Adolescent Girls in Africa
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 (IPS) - BRAC’s Empowerment and Livelihood Program (ELA) has benefitted tens of thousands of girls, and its recently released report shows an organization willing to adapt to the circumstances to continue to ensure adolescent girls and young women receive meaningful sexual and reproductive health rights support.
Pakistans Free Healthcare Insurance Benefits Women, Poor
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Feb 22 (IPS) - A free health insurance initiative started in Pakistan has benefited poor patients, especially women who have outnumbered men in using the cashless health services under the Sehat Card Plus programme.
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