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Posts Tagged with ‘Economic Meltdown & Women’

Sandra

In the gender digital divide, women fall behind

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

A silent phenomenon spreads HIV

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

Ending poverty: our discussion, our vision

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

Integration of migration – embracing the newcomers

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. Hello everyone. My name i...

Juke, Global Voices Online

How are communities affected when women control their own investments?

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Zoneziwoh, zoneziwohshow

Woman or man, only their works will speak

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

Women’s status determines world’s status

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

It’s hard to be rich

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

Women and poverty: India’s textile industry

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

World’s Progress on Maternal Health is Insufficient

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

Girls Count, Women Matter

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

Invest in Women – it Pays!

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

Capital of Hope

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

Graça Machel on Africa & the Financial Crisis

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

11 July 09: World Population Day

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

Women and the Global Economic Tsunami: Who Bears the Pain?

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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