Posts Tagged with ‘girls’
Saba
By: Saba Ismail, one of the Women Deliver 100 Young Leaders and program manager of the “Sahailee Hotline”
In Pakistan, talking about sexual and reproductive health, sexuality and contraception...
Mariko
By: Mariko Rasmussen, public health student at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in Reproductive and Family Health.
They say kids in Los Angeles grow up fast. Sitting across from ...
Deni, Americans for UNFPA
Typically when women make a little money they invest it in their families (up to 90% by some estimates). When coffers wealthy nations run dry, investment in women’s issue is usually one of the first...
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...
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...