Micro loans promised Sri Lankan and Cambodian women affected by war a way out of poverty as they rebuilt their lives. Instead, the loans trapped them in debt.
Asking women about the relevance of rules on gender violence should be the first step to confronting this issue. Stronger laws on their own just don’t cut it.
Women’s groups in Thailand’s deep south provinces have never been included in peace talks, despite being affected by the conflict, directly and indirectly.
Many of the women in the study experienced systemic racism from corrective services officers, police officers, and the medical professionals assigned to treat them.
Poverty and abuse often mean Indian girls and women see human traffickers as their ticket to a better life – and this only grew worse during the pandemic.
Research shows that starting kangaroo mother care immediately after birth saves many more lives, reduces infections and hypothermia, and improves feeding.
Nearly 90 per cent of cervical cancer deaths occur in low and middle-income countries due to inadequate access to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and care.
Nearly 40 million women have left the workforce in India since the turn of the millennium despite an economic boom. Now, there’s a window to reverse the trend.
From labour exploitation to torturous conditions in confinement, the rights of foreign workers facing the death penalty in Bahrain are often neglected.
Doctors compensated on a fee-for-service basis in India, were more likely to perform hysterectomy surgeries, whether or not they were clinically necessary.
While hysterectomy surgery has seen a drop in developed economies, it persists in the global South reflecting a racist, sexist, and prejudicial legacy.
The Australia-India Bilateral Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership aims to help accelerate businesses scale to global markets and increase participation of women entrepreneurs in the areas of cyber and critical technologies.
For years, literacy has not been the centre of education in Indonesia. This could change after a long-awaited new curriculum was introduced during the pandemic.
US$5.4 billion earning potential from education will be lost to Afghanistan should the country fail to allow girls to complete their secondary education, according to a new analysis by Unicef.
The Canadian health care system has a long and complicated relationship with people of colour. Acknowledging the need for change is the first step to change.
The most comprehensive global analysis of gender pay inequalities in the health and care sector finds that women face a larger gender pay gap than other economic sectors.
More women in leadership roles, solid social protection systems, strong democracies, and thriving feminist civil society groups are contributing factors to effective crisis response, according to a new report by UN Women and UNDP.
The research tracked more than 1,500 women in Melbourne, with a third reporting intimate partner violence (IPV) in the first decade of motherhood and one in five in the past year.
Researchers focused on how maternal mortality is impacted by abortion in the study because data shows staying pregnant carries a higher risk of death than having an abortion.
For decades, mental health has been one of the most overlooked areas of public health, receiving a tiny part of the attention and resources it needs and deserves, says WHO.
The study from the University of Queensland found that female leadership, education, religious diversity, and public trust in government were found to reduce rates of infection and death.
Researchers found evidence that gender-based violence appears to be exacerbated by extreme weather and climate events, driven by factors such as economic shock, social instability, enabling environments, and stress.
The desire to have a son may shorten breastfeeding duration so women can try to conceive again in the hopes of having a boy, but shorter breastfeeding time is linked to greater risk of death for Nepali infants.
EU lawmakers agreed that listed companies should aim to have at least 40 per cent of their non-executive director positions held by members of the under-represented sex by 2026.
Hundreds of thousands of women with gynaecological conditions across the UK are being forced to tolerate extreme pain and debilitating symptoms because of unacceptable waiting lists for diagnosis and treatment.
Real-world concerns about women’s safety and wellbeing are mirrored in the online world, according to figures from Ofcom’s major study into the UK’s online lives.
The court said that sex workers have the right to live with dignity, notwithstanding their profession, and that authorities have a duty to protect them.
Tongan families are being pushed to extremes as affordable housing grows scarce. New Zealand needs a Pacific Housing Strategy to address this escalating crisis.
The percentage of women who have experienced non-inclusive behaviours has increased from 52 per cent in 2021 to 59 per cent in 2022, half of women surveyed say they have experienced microaggressions, while 14 per cent have experienced harassment, according to a report by Deloitte.
The World Ovarian Cancer Coalition’s “Every Woman” study shows over two-thirds of women participants said they knew very little or nothing about ovarian cancer prior to their diagnosis.
The draft opinion written by Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito maintains that Roe v. Wade must be overruled because the right to abortion is not mentioned in the US constitution.
WHO’s SAGE recommends updating HPV vaccine dose schedules to one or two doses for girls and young women aged 9-20; and two doses with a 6-month interval for women aged above 21.
The White Paper on Singapore Women’s Development outlines 25 plans to address 5 areas: workplace opportunities, caregivers, violence, other support measures for women, and mindset shifts.
The new WHO guideline, for the first time, includes recommendations for telemedicine that helped support access to abortion and family planning services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Women feel most of the online vitriol they received was gendered, with perpetrators focusing on their gender, their physical appearances and their role as working mothers.
A new report by WHO and UNICEF details exploitative practices employed by the $55 billion formula industry, compromising child nutrition and violating international commitments.