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.
There should be more women at the negotiation table to achieve gender equality and inclusiveness in peace processes.
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.
Refugee women are crucial to building peace in Myanmar. Yet their experience has rarely been valued.
Myanmar’s formal peace efforts have traditionally involved only men. It’s time for that to change.
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.
There needs to be a nuanced approach to reintegrating former ISIS women back into Western society.
Barriers to the engagement of women in peace operations can sustain harmful workplace cultures, scuttle gender equality, and even peace outcomes.
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.
Can Afghan and Syrian women ever be involved in the peace process, or will it remain a pipe dream?
With prenatal genetic screening now routine, it’s relevant to ask whether prospective parents or scientists understand enough about the results.
Compiling and storing the DNA of newborns could be a massive boon for public health. But the ethical questions are just as big.
Many of the women in the study experienced systemic racism from corrective services officers, police officers, and the medical professionals assigned to treat them.
In 95 per cent of countries, breast cancer is the first or second leading cause of female cancer deaths.
Students around the world suffered from learning loss due to Covid-19, but disadvantaged children in Australian schools bucked the trend.
Covid-19 devastated school learning, especially for marginalised students, but resourceful principals have shown how they can make a difference.
Covid-19 further exposed existing cracks in the teaching profession which need to be fixed urgently.
The poor miss out when teaching goes online, leaving millions without proper education.
Prescriptions from certified health care providers are still required for purchase of mifepristone and misoprostol at retail pharmacies.
The pros and cons of the informal economy and how migrant business spaces are initiated and expanded.
Organisation and solidarity are critical to ensuring the rights of sex-workers.
Cities cannot function without domestic workers in India but their employment conditions remain precarious.
Research across the world demonstrates how global poverty can be tackled effectively by empowering women in all aspects.
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.
Nepal’s approach to protecting migrant workers lacks the nuance needed to seriously address abuse.
Too often, the medical profession ignores self-reported health from women in labour. Doing so risks both mother and baby.
In much of the world, myths regarding childbirth mean women experience more pain than they could. Education is key.
It’s been a long fight but the battle against sexual violence in Indonesia’s universities is slowly being won.
Violence against women in South Asia remains high, but women are slowly gaining wins through online activism.
The death of Mahsa Amini unleashed outrage at the government’s treatment of women that had long been simmering beneath the surface.
For a protest movement to succeed, it must fit within the cultural landscape of its environment.
Arab women have been suffering from layers of marginalisation and invisibility over the years, but a nation is leading the way to change that.
#MeToo may not have garnered much traction in Singapore but that didn’t stop women from demanding change.
The internet allows women to find solidarity, but it doesn’t allow everyone to have an equal voice.
The web provides safe harbour to anti-feminist views which can have real-world repercussions.
If India is to seize the advantage of its burgeoning young workforce, it needs to strategically implement economic and industrial policies.
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.
Entrepreneurship is an engine of economic growth but it can only move into top gear when there are more women.
The technology can help circumvent traditional barriers to women’s empowerment.
Understanding why some poverty reduction programmes work and others don’t call for a better understanding of the people involved.
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.
Tourist villages provide opportunities for women to earn money for their family and the local community without leaving their home.
Microfinance doesn’t always empower the women reliant on it, but a different form of accounting could help level the playing field.
Traditional weaving can be an escape from extreme poverty in rural Indonesia, but it doesn’t work for everyone.
A formal identity and a mobile phone are two key weapons in the global fight against poverty.
Psychedelics could potentially improve mother-infant bonding during postpartum depression. But studies have not looked into it.
Many South Asian countries have made progress in adopting right to information laws. But ensuring everyone benefits is proving more of a challenge.
From labour exploitation to torturous conditions in confinement, the rights of foreign workers facing the death penalty in Bahrain are often neglected.
Laws on genital mutilation, gender affirmation and cosmetic genital surgery are at odds, even though they have many similarities.
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.
Surgery on intersex infants attempts to shape them to society’s expectations. It is society, not the child, that needs changing.
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.
Since adults learn differently to children, tapping into familiar mediums could help boost literacy.
Literacy is not only about rankings. In Indonesia, misconceptions about literacy create a wider gap.
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.
Despite government-mandated education, too many Indians remain unable to read and write. It’s time to revisit the policies.
Significant growth in girls’ rugby around the world over the past decade comes with increased focus on the importance of injury prevention.
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.
Converting classrooms into an all English-speaking environment takes away children’s opportunities to develop crucial skills in their home languages.
Globally, only about half of children living with HIV are on life-saving treatment.
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.
Beliefs about a woman’s ‘proper’ place in society are behind the some perplexing contradictions in attitudes to abortion.
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.
New Zealand’s pro-choice laws do not equate to indifference to foetal life.
If approved, Opill would be the first daily birth control pill available OTC without a prescription in the US.
If religious freedom is a true American right, then it must apply to all, not just the conservative Christians arguing against the right to abortion.
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.
Women’s rights are more than a moral crusade, the lives of thousands of women and children hang on a woman’s ability to make her own choices.
Almost one-third of women in developing countries had their first child during adolescence, according to a new UNFPA report.
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.
Many of the health factors affecting women can be adjusted if women are made aware of them.
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.
Even during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, more women died from dementia (46,000) than from Covid-19 (33,000).
Women who suffer disabling periods can take three days off, with a possible extension of two extra days if the pain is severe.
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.
In 2021, the Internet Watch Foundation removed over 250,000 web pages containing child sexual abuse imagery, 97 per cent featuring girls.
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.
An estimated 10,000 Irish women and girls were sent to work without pay and subjected to abuse at the Magdalene Laundries.
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.
Psychological abuse is often ignored and assumed to be less severe than other forms of intimate partner violence.
The assumption that the tuna fishing industry is a man’s world is not only misleading, but also damaging.
Without accurate and timely gender data, resources may be wasted in programmes that do not work.
Missing gender data means Indonesia’s development programmes are poorly targeted, hindering gender mainstreaming goals enacted 22 years ago.
We still don’t know just how widespread and systematic the use of sexual violence is in conflict zones.
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.