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The need to “girl up” our approach to development

There’s a lot of talk these days about focusing on the needs of women and young girls when it comes to foreign aid, development and global health. As was noted recently by Unicef, and reported in the...

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At Clinton Global Initiative: Landless women at root of many problems

I’ve been reporting this week on the United Nations’ declared support (however vague) for expanding the global health agenda to go beyond the traditional focus on infectious diseases like AIDS, TB,...

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The wisdom of educating Rwandan women

I’ve written a lot on Humanosphere about how young people, aka the Millennials, are especially interested these days in trying to make the world a better place. It is definitely a phenomenon. Last...

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Rwanda is empowering girls, with a little help from Seattle

It has become a mantra in aid and development circles today to say that empowering girls is the single most effective means of fighting poverty, inequity and any number of ills in poor countries. This...

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Let’s make it Malala Day – International Day of the Girl

The Taliban, in shooting 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai for promoting girls rights, may have done more than any other humanitarian organization could have hoped to do to draw attention to the first...

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Should We Care About the 57th Commission on the Status of Women?

Liberian Ambassador Marjon Kamara (left) speaks with United States Ambassador Susan Rice (right) at the event. Photo credit: UN Women/Catianne Tijerina Keshet Bachan (you may know her as one of the...

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Saving newborn lives with a cardboard box

BBC It’s a safe bet. Sending cardboard boxes to poor countries will be the next big global child health initiative. The BBC reports today on the history and current use of boxes as newborn beds in...

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Beyond rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is by many measures one of the world’s most difficult places to live. Government instability, rebel attacks in the east, terrible health services and more...

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What can NGOs learn from Harvard’s gender equity experiment?

Harvard’s venerated and brotastic MBA program quietly decided to become more female friendly to both students and faculty. Men tended to dominate the top 5% of graduating classes and are...

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Better Data will Empower More Women

Polio vaccination team member, Sujata Roy, marks a house during a campaign in Balarampota village. Gates Foundation (New York) – Melinda Gates and Hillary Clinton agree, better data is vital to...

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Law & Order: Poverty alleviation unit

Gary Haugen (New York) – Movement inside of the Sheraton Hotel, location of the Clinton Global Initiative meeting, came to a standstill as President Obama exited the building. Press and meeting...

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Chelsea Clinton champions youth engagement and women’s rights

Chelsea Clinton leads a plenary discussion at CGI 2013. CGI (New York) – Chelsea Clinton recognizes that being the daughter of a former US President and former Secretary State pushes her onto the...

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The trouble with Maasai boys

Uwiro, Tanzania - A drought in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northwest Tanzania claimed the lives of more than 200 children in 2011. The dry season and unsure rains mean that the Maasai children...

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The 10 stories you missed while following the Philippines

The disaster following Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines rightly has dominated the global twenty-four hour news cycle. Humanosphere has devoted more of our reporting time to the issue than anything...

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Seattle takes it personally – women and girls

Editor’s Note: I have neither the time nor the inclination to engage in the journalistic pretense of objectivity today, which is why I am calling this post an analysis. It’s not really going to be very...

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Afghanistan lagging on enforcing law protecting women against violence

Afghan women’s self-help group. Canada in Afghanistan The landmark law enacted in Afghanistan four years ago is providing little protection for women. In 2011, Afghanistan was found to be the worst...

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Child marriage seen as a girl’s health issue

CFR The development community is starting to pay closer attention to the problem of child marriages. Long considered an issue of human rights, the conversation about child marriage is shifting to that...

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Parents say more than 200 girls missing in northern Nigeria

Security walk past burned government secondary school Chibok, were gunmen abducted more than 200 students in Chibok, Nigeria. AP Photo/ Haruna Umar The search for the school girls abducted in northern...

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Sex trafficking activist resigns over personal history inconsistencies

Queen Sofia of Spain receives scarves with Somaly Mam, during her tour of Tom Dy, Rehabilitation and Profession Center for Women and Children Victims of Traffic and Sexual Exploitation, on the outskirt...

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Midwives can avert two-thirds of maternal and newborn deaths, says UN

Midwife training in northern Nigeria. Some 73 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are responsible for 96% of global maternal deaths and more than 90% of newborn deaths. Yet, these same...

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