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Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Khushboo Srivastava

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women

Since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, the Islamist regime has effectively erased women from public life. Femicide and other forms of gender-based violence have become more common. A recent report from a non-governmental initiative sheds light on the m...

Emancipation
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Women are slowly asserting themselves in MENA region

In Arab countries, examples prove that patriarchal family traditions can indeed be changed

Gender justice
Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu

To empower women, pass and enforce laws

Africa needs more women in positions of leadership, and that will require socio-cultural change

Sexual abuse
Rukamanee Maharjan

How some Nepali girls end up as prostitutes

After being trafficked into sex work, women are often trapped in slavery-like conditions in a foreign country

Women’s empowerment
Bimbola Oyesola
Bimbola Oyesola

Double burden of household work and earning money

As in many developing countries, masses of women are slaving away in Nigeria’s informal sector

Women’s rights
Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi

How illiteracy perpetuates oppression of Pakistani women

Half of Pakistan’s women cannot read or write in any language

Blog
Monika Hellstern

Gender implications of Covid-19

Covid-19 hits women harder, warns OECD

Marginalisation
Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo

Living on the land – but not owning it

Zimbabwe’s women face resistance to exercising their rights to own land

Peacebuilding
Anggia Anggraini Burchill

Tribal conflicts threaten women

Women in Papua New Guinea are hard-hit by tribal wars

Education
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

Charcoal paying for education

A poor female charcoal-vendor in Uganda managed to send her children to university

Media
Lindsey Kukunda

Discussing how to put women down best

Some Ugandan officials excuse men who practice domestic violence

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos