Report: Women in Africa face profound gender inequalities and those inequalities do great economic harm to individuals and nationsThe UN Development Program’s flagship report on development in Africa–the Africa Human Development 2016 report — was released this week. It focuses...
Collecting honest data on maternal deaths gives us the information we need to save women’s lives.Maternal death is one of the thorny problems of global health. Many different factors can cause a mother to lose...
These Videos about “Male Guardianship” in Saudi Arabia Have Gone ViralA female doctor is barred from a medical conference. An abused wife is forced to return to her violent home....
There are 53,000 Refugees Stranded in Greece. I met one of them. She is 7 months pregnant and couldn’t find help.Ed note. This is a guest post by Shaliz Navab a student at the University of Edinburgh. She was a manager of...
Journalist Lauren Wolfe reported on a horrendous war crime. Hours later the perpetrators were arrestedWhen Lauren Wolfe reported on a war crime in eastern Congo, she could hardly have expected that her piece in...
A Horrific Gang Rape in Brazil Instigates a Global Call to ActionEd note. This is a guest post by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director The drugging, abduction...
Female genital mutilation harms women. So why are there so few medical options for reducing that harm?The World Health Organization has released new guidelines on care for women who have been subjected to genital mutilation (FGM)....
There’s a “Gender Data Gap” that’s standing in the way of the Sustainable Development GoalsThere is a persistent problem problem in international development: the data just aren’t that good. This is particularly true with...
10 Questions with Women Deliver CEO Katja IversenThis week, more than 5,000 people from 169 countries have gathered at the Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen to discuss...