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Women Can End the Food Crisis
Over the past year global food prices have soared making even the most basic foods - such as rice and corn - too expensive for the world's poor. The result? Millions of families are enduring extreme hunger or starvation. As is all too often the case in times of crisis, women and children are suffering the most. Read More - Download our Fact Sheet on Women and the Food Crisis (http://www.womenthr...
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Jul 8, 2008
Rape, Poverty, and War: Congo and Beyond
Conflict Increases Violence Against Women Armed conflict devastates entire societies - it tears apart families and communities, increases disease and hunger, and spreads homelessness and extreme poverty. During and after these conflicts, women and children suffer the most. Reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), Darfur, Chad, Uganda, Kenya and Colombia, show not only that violen...
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Jul 8, 2008
National Public Radio's (NPR) Morning Edition: Women Thrive on MCC Cuts
On June 23rd, Michele Kelemen of NPR's Morning Edition reported on the Senate's proposed cuts to the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Hear Nora O'Connell, Women Thrive's Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs discuss how the cuts would harm women living in extreme poverty on the program. Click here to listen! (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91791870)
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Jul 8, 2008
IRC Reports Influx of Rape Cases in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
Social workers in Sierra Leone worry that rape has become even more pervasive in peacetime than during the country’s decade-long civil war. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), which operates treatment clinics for abused women in Sierra Leone, has seen a steadily increasing stream of victims pouring into their “Rainbo Centers.” Most of the victims come from areas with a high...
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Jul 8, 2008
UN Affirms Rape and Sexual Violence Are War Crimes
On June 19 2008, the UN Security Council passed a resolution that defined rape and sexual violence as war crimes and called for measures to combat them. The U.S.-sponsored resolution, introduced by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, had failed to pass last year with China, Russia and South Africa claiming that rape and sexual violence are “an unfortunate byproduct of war…not a m...
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Jul 8, 2008
Women Thrive, NGO Community Preserve Millions for Poor Communities
At the end of May 2008 the U.S. Senate passed a bill to provide emergency aid to Burma for cyclone relief, food security programs, and support for Jordan (which provides refuge to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees). The Senate funded this assistance by proposing to cut the budget of the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC), which invests in long-term poverty reduction, by one third (Read mo...
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Jul 8, 2008
Bill to Give Women Entrepeneurs Opportunity Now Before Congress
What if you could help remove barriers that keep women around the world from escaping poverty? You can. Support the GROWTH Act. Right now a groundbreaking bill that has the potential to help lift millions of women in the developing world out of poverty is before Congress. On July 10, 2007, Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) re-introduced the Global Resou...
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Apr 15, 2008
Good News for Women's Rights: Poll Shows Majorities in All Countries Support Equal Rights
A recent poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org of 16 nations from around the world shows that there is widespread consensus that it is important for "women to have full equality of rights" and most say it is very important. This is true in Muslim countries as well as Western countries and, according to the report, men and women differ strikingly little on this question. Perceived Changes in Women's...
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Apr 15, 2008
From Nicaragua: The Reality of Living on a Dollar a Day
Worldwide, over a billion people - 1 out of every 6 human beings —live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $1 a day. In Nicaragua, this is enough for a woman to buy a bus ticket to get to work.... In India, this is enough for a girl to buy one notepad for school.... In Nigeria, this is enough for a mother to buy one loaf of bread for her children.... Most Americans can't imagi...
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Apr 15, 2008
Zambia: Unequal Property Rights and Violence Against Women Are Increasing HIV/AIDS
High levels of gender-based violence (GBV) and unequal property rights for women are contributing to Zambia's HIV/AIDS crisis, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. According to a new report by global watch dog group, Human Rights Watch, gender-based violence and unequal property rights are preventing Zambian women from accessing life-saving treatment for HIV/AIDS. According to the 96-pa...
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Jan 22, 2008
Get to Know the "Women Who Light the Dark"
An inspiring new book by photo-journalist Paola Gianturco shows us how women around the world are using their imaginations against all odds to solve their communities' most intractable problems. “Across the world local women are helping one another tackle the problems that darken their lives – domestic violence, sex trafficking, war, poverty, illiteracy, discrimination, inequality, ma...
Posted by Women Thrive Worldwide Jan 22, 2008
