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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.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Promoting Gender Equality and Closing the Digital Divide
- Inter Press Service
Guimarães, Portugal, Mar 07 (IPS) - The accelerating pace of digitalization has ushered humanity into a whole different era of information and communication. Today, digitalization permeates every aspect of our lives, socio-economically and politically.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Her Land, Her Rights: Advancing Gender Equality & Land Restoration Goals
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Mar 07 (IPS) - When it comes to land, gender inequalities are pervasive. Today, nearly half of the global agricultural workforce is female – yet less than one in five landholders worldwide are women 1. ?
Tropical cyclone Freddy set to further weaken cholera-hit Malawi
- UN News
Malawi’s deadly cholera outbreak could worsen if - as expected - Tropical Cyclone Freddy triggers further heavy rainfall in the south of the country, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - To Strengthen Women’s Resilience to Disasters, Make Wealthiest Pay Their Fair Share
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Switzerland, Mar 06 (IPS) - Gender inequality exacerbates the impact of natural disasters, and the consequences of natural disasters compound gender inequality. States must introduce progressive taxation to finance the expansion of rights such as universal access to health care and education, and strengthen women's resilience to natural hazards, including climate change.
She will be called Aya. This is the name that nurses gave to the infant baby pulled from the rubble of a five-story building in Jinderis, northern Syria. A miracle. Beside her, the rescuers found her mother, dead.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - A New Global Architecture to Defend & Promote Rights of Women & Girls
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 06 (IPS) - If you want to have a good reading on women and young girls’ activism, there is a high chance that you have missed an incredibly interesting report.
Forget ChatGPT: The Greatest Tech Breakthrough Would Be Getting Cell Phones to Rural Women
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 06 (IPS) - While 100 million people worldwide are using the AI chatbot ChatGPT to get ahead on homework and try out for top jobs at Google, more than 370 million women in developing countries lack the services of a simple cell phone.
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