Opinion by Roopa Dhatt, Ebere Okereke (washington dc / london) Thursday, March 16, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC / LONDON, Mar 16 (IPS) – Women health workers are more than two thirds of the health workforce and represent 90% of the world’s frontline health workers, yet hold less than a…
Benson Musyoka rides his motorcycle from Kamboo health centre to transport vaccines to Yindalani village. Photo Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Monday, March 13, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Mar 13 (IPS) – Up until 2019, nurses in three health facilities located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region of Makueni…
The town hall with representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was held as part of the annual session of the UN Committee on the Status of Women (CSW), which meets in New York every March. Its latest two-week session – known as CSW67, which runs through Friday – is focused…
Ndeye Rose Sarr When a girl starts to menstruate, that’s when the problems usually start. From the age of 10, she begins to be looked at as a potential bride for an older man. And if she has not yet undergone FGM, there will be those in her community…
The 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (6-17 March) gets underway at UN headquarters in New York . Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías Opinion by Dana Abed (beirut) Friday, March 10, 2023 Inter Press Service The writer is Global Campaigns Strategist for Gender Rights and Justice at Oxfam…
Gender equality in the judiciary has been historically unbalanced, including at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. The first woman to be elected as a member of the ICJ in 1995 was Dame Rosalyn Higgins, who in 2006 also became the first…
Opinion by Vidya Diwakar (brighton, uk) Thursday, March 09, 2023 Inter Press Service BRIGHTON, UK, Mar 09 (IPS) – This year marks the halfway point— eight years in and eight years out— of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty and reduce inequalities. Yet we are a long way off…
Credit: Equality Now, Millicent Kwambai Opinion by S. Mona Sinha (new york) Wednesday, March 08, 2023 Inter Press Service The writer is Global Executive Director at Equality Now. The following opinion piece is part of a series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. NEW YORK, Mar 08 (IPS) – The…
Mahfudha Abdullahi Hajji is the second woman ever to be elected to a non-affirmative action political seat after renowned gender advocate Sophia Abdi made history by being elected Ijara MP, Garissa County, in 2017. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Wednesday, March 08, 2023 Inter Press Service This feature is…
Credit: Kyrgyz Space Program Opinion by Achim Steiner (united nations) Wednesday, March 08, 2023 Inter Press Service The following opinion piece is part of a series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) – Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tremendous power of technology…
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