Is microfinance a silver bullet for development?
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3y ago
By Joshua Kenyon Microfinance is a financial service that provides loans for microenterprises in developing countries. It is often argued to be a panacea for economic development as it provides capital to poor citizens who, in theory, are then able to grow their own businesses. Besides creating new opportunities, microfinance is argued to empower women ..read more
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Suffocating from the Global Gag Rule, America’s anti-abortion aid policy
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3y ago
By Joshua Kenyon The Mexico City Policy, more commonly known as the Global Gag Rule, is America’s policy of refusing to fund international non-governmental organizations that facilitate abortion. This includes everything from operating abortion clinics, to providing abortion-related counselling. During his first week in office in 2017, President Trump reinstated and expanded on the Global ..read more
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Making HERstory: How literacy programmes can transform the lives of India’s rural women
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3y ago
By Ria Chauhan Every 8 September, International Literacy Day provides an opportunity to reflect on how education and development initiatives can be used to eradicate illiteracy. Worldwide, poor literacy skills are associated with limited opportunities for personal development and a reduced ability to contribute to both society and the economy. Illiteracy presents a significant barrier ..read more
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Managing menstrual hygiene during Covid-19
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3y ago
By Tallulah Gordon Like many others who menstruate, I started lockdown worried about how social distancing and bulk-buying would impact my ability to buy sanitary products. Yet a lack of adequate support for menstrual hygiene management (MHM) for women and girls in developing countries has been a reality long before the pandemic began. Around the ..read more
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Training youth for employment: How young women in India are still falling through the cracks
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4y ago
By Ria Chauhan Every year on 15 July – World Youth Skills Day – nations around the world echo the importance of ‘skilled youth’ for sustainable development. At its core, the UN’s World Youth Skills Day is a celebration of the member states’ global commitment to “equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work ..read more
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Decolonisation of witchcraft in Africa and its effects on women’s equality
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4y ago
By Alex Costagliola Today, witchcraft and occult practices in Africa are largely understood within the context of pre-colonial and colonial views that conflated local, traditional practices with Western ideas of witchcraft, which was seen by the Christian Church as an “explicit rejection of the Christian God and defection to his adversary, the Devil”. The association ..read more
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Ensuring girls’ access to education during Covid-19
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4y ago
By Natasha Tariq According to UNESCO, of the 743 million girls around the world out of school and universities due to the Covid-19 pandemic, over 111 million live in the world’s least developed countries, where already high gender disparities in education exist. There are now fears that progress made with regards to gender equality could ..read more
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Reintegrating Yazidi women and girls back into the community
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4y ago
By Asha Kaushal In the centre of Lalish, Iraq, home to the holiest temple in the Yazidi faith, is a small pool of water shaded by mulberry trees. This is the holy spring, where new-borns are brought for baptism. For generations this ritual has remained unchanged. However, in 2015 a baptism of a wholly new ..read more
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