Saif al-Dawla School
Syrian school girls sit in their classroom at the Saif al-Dawla School as they take part in activities surrounding an art competition as part of a local initiative to shift the children's minds from the atrocities of the Syrian war, Douma, May 25, 2016.
Infographic - April 05, 2016 |
Conflict and protracted crises, such as war, natural disasters, and public health emergencies are a serious threat to the education of millions of children worldwide.
NEW YORK, 12 January 2016 – In 22 countries affected by conflict, nearly 24 million children living in crisis zones are out of school, UNICEF said today.
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_89782.html
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4-28-2016 - South Asian nations set to meet cost of only third of health demand by 2040
By 2040, people in developing countries will continue to spend a greater proportion of their own money on healthcare than those in the developed world as national health spending is failing to keep up with demand, a Lancet study warns.
The researchers say that low-income countries only spend around 3 US cents on health for each dollar that rich countries spend. This is unlikely to change in the next 25 years despite growing wealth, according to the paper.
This means people living in these countries will have to spend a larger share of their own income on private healthcare than those in rich countries — or forego important health treatments, the authors say.
By Rosjke Hasseldine 4/21/2016
Back in March, Microsoft put out a YouTube video “What are you going to make?” to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day. The video tells the story of how students are not being taught about female inventors, as a girl remarks;
You never hear a girl (being mentioned) in the conversation.
Then on April 3, The New York Times published an article; “The Tampon of the Future“ which reveals how in the area of life-sciences, it is hard for women to be an inventor. It states that “more than 92 percent of patent holders are men” and that “90 percent of the partners in venture-capital firms (that provide the necessary funding for research) are male”. In this climate, how can a female inventor find recognition and funding when men decide what is worthy of being funded? And with men making these decisions, who is going to champion what women need researching?
12 May 2016 - From the moment we are born society tells us the roles, behaviors and attributes that are considered acceptable according to our gender. Those associated with maleness and considered appropriate for men are referred to as “masculinity”, while those associated with femaleness and considered appropriate for women are referred to as “femininity”.
“In all societies there are many ideas about masculinity and femininity that are harmful, not just to girls and women, but also to boys and men, as well as people of other gender identities”. This is the premise of the Self-Learning Booklet: Masculinities and Violence against Women and Girls developed by the UN Women Training Centre. The booklet was developed as the result of a series of training courses that aim to strengthen capacities of development practitioners and advocates to understand, integrate and address critical gender issues in their lives and work. This tool aims to assist both UN and non-UN staff to better understand the issues of masculinities in relation to violence against women and girls.
A woman and her daughters in the village of Cambadju in Bafata region, Guinea-Bissau, which has been on the UN’s list of least developed countries since 1981. Photograph: Unicef/Lemoyne/EPA
By Sam Jones – 24 May 2016
Millions of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries are being denied the opportunity to help drive development because of the “countless barriers” they still face in health, education and employment, a report warns.
The study, by the UN population fund, UNFPA, says that while the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) have made considerable progress over the past few decades in reducing infant, child and maternal mortality, and increasing contraceptive use, gender inequality often remains an insurmountable obstacle.
“From adolescence onwards, millions of girls and women are still denied access to schooling or the chance to fulfil their productive potential. They are marrying at ages too young to ensure independent choice, and they are using modern contraceptives at rates far below the global average, with the resulting consequence that reproductive life starts early, is entered into without access to healthcare, and is sustained for many years at high risk to health and life,” it says.
