Posts Tagged with ‘Economic Meltdown & Women’
Sandra
There is a division between men and women, not only in terms of pure economics, but also in the realm of technology. Women's lack of technological access is caused by many factors, and it will ultimat...
Robert
Young sex workers in rural Zimbabwe have embarked on a fatal path that increases their likelihood of contracting and spreading HIV. Poverty and a lack of information intensify the problem, but instead...
Ishmael Kwasi, Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana
Young people have the talent and creativity to end poverty. It is our inherited problem, and we must solve it together. The Kwasi Selassie Poverty Discussion is a blog space for young people who want...
Emily
Ongoing migration is a reality. The goal is not to end migration, but to value, respect and integrate the people who leave their homes in search of resources and safety.
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Juke, Global Voices Online
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Zoneziwoh, zoneziwohshow
African women face many constraints and discrimination which affect them economically. Though women with economic power tend to make positive choices for their families and communities, too often they...
Don
This blog post is a response to the post "Invest in women -- it pays!"
If women we given equal status in all societies in the world, we would have not only a better life for women, but a drastic lo...
Ida, UNFPA
Why the financial crisis is causing problems for poor
I just stumbled upon a very interesting debate on The Economix Blog, a blog by The New York Times.
In a time where global experts and schol...
Anusha, United Nations
After several years of consistent increase in growth and profits India’s textile industry is currently faltering under the global economic crisis as a result of a massive drop in export requests fro...
Alvaro, UNFPA
The World Bank its taking a closer look at the relationship between maternal health and economic progress. A must-read feature:
Reducing maternal mortality by three quarters, and achieving univer...
Gill, IPPF
In these turbulent times of financial crisis, rising food prices, climate change and political instability, it is women and girls who will be disproportionately affected, particularly poor women in po...
Jill, Women Deliver
At the moment the world loses 15 billion dollars every year in productivity that doesn’t happen because mothers and their newborns are dying – one mother a minute, four million newborns every year...
Mark, Mark Tuschman Photography
Women and children do bear the brunt of economic hardship during any economic downturn. I witnessed this during the course of 2007 and 2008 when I made several trips to Ghana to photographically doc...
Neil, UNFPA
One of the people who helps me understand the impact of the economic crisis on women is Graca Machel, the passionate advocate for women and children and a former Minister of Education and Culture in M...
Kimberly
Investing in Women is a Smart Choice
We echo the words of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Observance of World Population Day: In the midst of the worst global economic crisis in generatio...
Alex
Who’s responsible for globalization? Probably a woman called Ug. Ug recognised that the woman in the next cave made better mammoth-skin shoes than she did. She also knew that Mr. Ug threw a pretty h...
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