News headlines for “Human Population”, page 71
International Women’s Day, 2023 - World Parliaments Could Take Another 80 Years to Achieve Gender Parity Among Legislators
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) - For the first time in history, says a new report from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), not a single functioning parliament in the world is “male-only”.
Is the increasing number of women in parliaments a singular achievement for gender empowerment? Or is it the result of mandatory legislative quotas for women’s representation in world’s parliaments?
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Women and Girls: Innovation and Higher Education
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Mar 08 (IPS) - In September 2020, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for women’s rights celebrated its 25th anniversary. It was, however, a bittersweet commemoration, mixing joy for the progress in gender equality achieved since 1995, and the stark realization about the multidimensional gaps awaiting tackling and the new divides brought by the social consequences of COVID-19.
Parliamentarians Tackle Youth Employment, SRHR in Post-COVID Asia and Pacific
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 08 (IPS) - With more than 600 million youth aged between 18 and 24 in the Asia and Pacific region, putting their issues front and center is crucial. Speakers at a recent forum, Youth Empowerment: Education, Employment and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, held in Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia, agreed that policy development and implementation should be youth-centered.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Digital Inclusion is Vital for Strengthening Women’s Rights in Africa
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 08 (IPS) - The internet has a pivotal role to play in empowering women and girls across Africa, but preexisting forms of gender discrimination and marginalization are underpinning a widening digital gender divide.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - First Ever Women Council of Elders Making In-roads in North Eastern Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Mar 08 (IPS) - Low literacy levels, a high prevalence of outlawed Female Genital Mutilation, early marriages, forced marriages, low contraceptive usage, multiple births, as well as high maternal, infant and child deaths, define the life of a woman in Kenya’s vast North Eastern region.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - The Power of Technology — & the Increased Exclusion, Inequalities & Gender Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) - Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tremendous power of technology and innovation has become clear to the world. However, it has also increased exclusion, discrimination, and inequalities -- especially for women and girls.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Empower Her
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 08 (IPS) - On International Women’s Day, let us remind ourselves of the power of education. We have all benefited from an education that less than a century ago was not a given for a girl and which still remains a distant utopia for millions of young girls.
Why Do 800 Mothers a Day - 1 Every 2 Minutes Die from Preventable Causes?
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Mar 07 (IPS) - The answer is that there are alarming setbacks for maternal health care and, in many cases, even a total lack of maternity services, which threaten to further raise the number of these tragic preventable deaths one million or more a year by 2030.
Our AIDS Response Must Acknowledge and Bridge Gendered Digital Inequalities
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 07 (IPS) - Recent crises have pushed the gender inequality gap even wider and new technology has brought new threats to women’s autonomy and safety. This year’s International Women's Day celebrated under the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality” is an opportunity to strengthen efforts to uplift and empower women and girls’ digital participation to ultimately improve their lives.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Five Sharp Questions on Female Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
NORMA, Italy, Mar 07 (IPS) - The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. International Women's Day is right around the corner and it presents an obvious opportunity to dig into what female and empowerment means for different people.
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