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All posts tagged "world"
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The biggest challenge facing women? Work, say men and women globallyBy Belinda Goldsmith LONDON, March 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The world would be a better place for women if they had access to more and better quality jobs, according to a street survey of women and...
- Posted March 14, 2017
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Malaria drug for pregnant women also combats sexually transmitted infections – researchBy Kieran Guilbert | Thomson Reuters Foundation The antimalarial drug reduces the danger of life-threatening birth problems linked to malaria and STIs DAKAR, March 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A drug given to pregnant women to...
- Posted March 3, 2017
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Gender roles in rural India changing with women taking control as men migrate to cities and amid a wave of suicides by male farmersBy Belinda Goldsmith MAYAPUR, India, Feb 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For Hira Kanjarya, a 17 hour day is the norm as she gets up before dawn to cook for her five children, do the washing, milk...
- Posted February 13, 2017
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First ladies vow to fight “barbaric” genital mutilation in W. AfricaBy Emma Batha ROME, Jan 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The first ladies of Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin promised on Monday to “end the scourge of female genital mutilation” (FGM) in their countries amid warnings the...
- Posted January 30, 2017
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On Election Night and Beyond, One Woman’s PerspectiveBy Beth Humphreys November 9, 2016, I felt as if I was in a dull trance, a state of shock after the event of the previous night’s US election, as many of us were. Two months on,...
- Posted January 15, 2017
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Nigeria faces mounting pressure to rescue girls abducted by Boko Haram 1,000 days agoBy Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and Kieran Guilbert | Thomson Reuters Foundation CHIBOK, Nigeria/DAKAR, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nigeria is facing mounting pressure to find some 200 schoolgirls abducted 1,000 days ago in Boko Haram’s most...
- Posted January 11, 2017
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Widows from polygamous marriages abused and thrown out of their homes in rural MozambiqueBy Ray Mwareya CHIKWIDZIRE, Mozambique, December 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – After Marcia Madeya’s husband died his brothers accused her of witchcraft, stole her fruit trees, crops and goats, and shared them out between his other wives....
- Posted December 26, 2016
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Syrian girls flee war only to become mothers in Jordan campBy Lin Taylor | Thomson Reuters Foundation ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan, Dec 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a crowded maternity clinic at a refugee camp in Jordan near the Syrian border, Elhem cradled her crying 11-month-old...
- Posted December 17, 2016
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Chad pastoralist made to sit on floor now stands for her community“It is just a woman. We cannot take what she says seriously,” male officials have told Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim. But “I take the opportunity to put my ideas on the table” By Fabiola Ortiz MARRAKESH, Morocco, Nov...
- Posted November 29, 2016
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Girls forced from their homes by climate-linked disasters face early marriage in Dhaka’s slumsBy Liz Mermin and Mushfique Wadud DHAKA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It was after floods washed away her family’s river-front land in Bangladesh’s northern Jamalpur district that Brishti Rafiq’s widowed father brought her to live in Dhaka....
- Posted November 21, 2016
