Women
28 pieces
On the Emergence of New, Young, Global and Ethnic Leadership
By Ramin Herath, 2019 Luce 24 Under 24 Award Recipient Through my personal experience, young leadership is extremely crucial in fighting the many issues we still face as…
Let’s Talk About Menstrual Hygiene: "No More Limits"
New York, N.Y. On any given day more than 800 million women and girls are menstruating, yet menstrual health and hygiene is a neglected health and development issue. Stig…
Ban Urges Countries Along Balkan Route to Keep Borders Open
New York, N.Y. Concerned with the increasing number of border restrictions along the Balkan land route, including in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and the Former Yug…
Film ‘Margarita With A Straw’ - Unexpected Brilliance – From India
New York, N.Y. The film Margarita With A Straw is so unexpectedly brilliant, on so many levels, that I was completely mesmerized. Focused on taboo within taboo, the fragi…
International Day of the Girl: Recognition by Global Community
New York, N.Y. Today is the International Day of the Girl Child . Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2011, October 11th now marks official recognition by t…
Investing in 10-Year-Old Girls Helps Reach Global Goals
New York, N.Y. If all of the ten-year-old girls living in developing countries that currently drop out of or do not attend school were to complete their secondary educati…
Lions Clubs International Focuses on Global Issues at U.N.
With Kristopher Kempski. New York, N.Y. On March 12, 2016, just a few days after International Women’s Day, more than 700 Lions, Leos, ambassadors and guests gathered at…
Protecting Earth from ‘Invisible Killer’ is Focus of U.N. Campaign
New York, N.Y. The United Nations World Health Organization ( WHO ) in partnership with the Coalition for Climate and Clean Air (CCAC) and the Government of Norway has la…
Rural Women's Empowerment Critical to Sustainable Development
New York, N.Y. Marking the International Day of Rural Women, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that rural women are critical to the success of almost…
U.N. Statistics Forum Addresses Efforts to Support Gender Equality
New York, N.Y. Today marks the start of the 6th Global Forum on Gender Statistics, a two day event in Helsinki, Finland, that will highlight ways to improve data on gende…
U.N. Women Announces Anne Hathaway As Goodwill Ambassador
New York, NY – The United Nations entity tasked with promoting gender equality today announced the appointment of Academy Award-winning American actor Anne Hathaway as gl…
UNICEF's Mobile Health Campaign for Children and Women in Yemen
New York, N.Y. The United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) has reported that, along with its partners, the agency has completed a drive reaching more than 600,000 child…
‘Orange the World’ Campaign Effort to End Violence Against Girls, Women
New York, N.Y. From parades to soccer matches, school debates, and the lighting up of hundreds of iconic monuments, starting tomorrow a United Nations call to “Orange the…
Indian Award-Winning Documentary ‘Daughters of Mother India’ - Jarring Wake-Up Call for Men Like Me
With Jitin Hingorani. New York, N.Y. While living and working in my comfortable American cocoon in December of 2012, I vaguely remember hearing about an Indian girl named…
More Midwife Training to Tackle Maternity, Child Deaths
New York, N.Y. Nearly 800 women continue to die every day from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, the United Nations spotlighted as it marked the International Da…
Thousands in India Able to Watch Banned Gang Rape Documentary
New Delhi, India. Despite a ban put in place by India on a controversial BBC documentary on the infamous 2012 gang rape in New Delhi, the film has been viewed online by t…
U.N. Kicks off International Women's Day Celebration, Gender Equality
New York, N.Y. In India, women carry food. Photo: World Bank/Curt Carnemark6 March 2015 – Despite great strides in the advancement of gender parity, women still lag behin…
U.N.: Violence Against Women and Girls ‘Shames Every Society'
New York, N.Y. Voicing concern over the continued killing of women and girls, the United Nations anti-crime chief today issued a strong call to end such acts, as well as…
UNHCR: Migrant Women and Children Face Sex Abuse
Washington, D.C. The United Nations refugee agency is warning that migrant women and children traveling to Europe are particularly subject to sex abuse, calling on countr…
Up-Close Look at Group's Grassroots Effort to Reduce Homelessness
Bronx, N.Y. It is an understatement to call homelessness a growing problem. More accurately, it's a tragedy. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that an average of…
World News Digest: April 19, 2013
U.N. and Partners Call Attention to Challenges Preventing Global Immunization U.N. agencies and global health organizations called attention yesterday to the urgent need…
David Lynch Fnd.: Women, Violence & T.M.
New York, N.Y. When I first read that 19,000 women a year get raped in the military, I thought it was a typo. When I read the next sentence that women in our military wer…
Mind-Body Fitness to Empowerment
By Pamela M. Peeke, M.D., M.P.H. New York, N.Y. Stress can be your friend or your foe. When stress fuels the spark of personal achievement, it can work to your benefit by…
Soledad O’Brien Opens Violence Symposium
By Soledad O'Brien. New York, N.Y. It all started with a deep desire… to alleviate stress and promote peace in the lives of people everywhere… by giving them the gi…
Andeisha Farid and the Orphaned Children of Afghanistan
New York, N.Y. I met "Orphans Hero" Andeisha Farid this fall when she was in town as part of Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Women Program . Then I saw her on Brian Williams' brill…
Helping Women: Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Developing World
New York, N.Y. Ana Langer, M.D., spoke recently at a Smith Barney seminar on health in the developing world. She was talking about the problem of obstetric fistula, of wh…
Jim Luce on Women & Girls
J im Luce first wrote on women (Changing Roles of Women Discussed at College of Wooster) for his college newspaper in 1982. 2012 Women Refugee Voices of Courage Balinese…
Winning Hearts & Minds, Transforming Lives in Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica. For decades, Jamaica has been facing high and rising debt to GDP ratios that has undermined its capacity to achieve sustainable growth and has contribu…