For 25 years, the world has made significant progress in advancing women’s right to health, particularly in sexual and reproductive care. Women are living longer than ever before – but they are not living better. Across the world, UN data shows, women are still less likely to be taken seriously, accurately diagnosed, or appropriately treated. From […]
The 2025 Global AIDS Update released on Thursday July 10, 2025 by UNAIDS – the global body’s agency fighting AIDS and HIV infection – warns that a historic funding crisis now threatens to unravel decades of hard-won gains unless countries radically rethink how they fund and deliver HIV services. Yet even amid these challenges, many of the […]
Africans today are better educated than ever before and they are reshaping the global workforce, with the working-age population expected to reach 600 million by 2030. Many African nations are making commendable strides towards ensuring access to quality education and lifelong learning for their populations. However, progress remains gradual and one in four young people […]
Nairobi, Kenya, November 25, 2024: Across Africa, rape is one of the most common crimes. New research reveals how inadequate criminalization of rape, weak legal implementation, rape myths, and victim-blaming are just some of the barriers to justice that survivors face. These obstacles prevent many cases from reaching court, with even fewer resulting in convictions, […]
Sudan is at breaking point. After 17 months of a brutal civil war which has devastated the country, the army has launched a major offensive in the capital Khartoum, targeting areas in the hands of its bitter rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The RSF seized most of Khartoum at the start of the conflict, […]
The UN Secretary-General on Monday highlighted the urgent need to defend women’s rights which are under threat, citing a reversal in hard-won progress, increasing violence against women and a growing digital gender divide. Addressing the opening of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the pivotal forum dedicated to promoting and safeguarding the rights […]
Women and girls of African descent face a “systemic and historical pattern” of racial abuse in the health sector in countries across the world, leaving them at increased risk of death during childbirth, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency said on Wednesday july 12, 2023. The scourge of racism continues for Black women and […]
Spain recently adopted a menstrual leave policy, which makes additional (paid or unpaid) days off work available to “only and all cisgender women”. It’s so great that we’re having more public conversations about menstrual and menopausal health, but I’m getting very tired of being told that menstrual leave is the solution. As someone with a background […]
The 67th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67), the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment, will take place this year from 6 – 17 March under the theme, “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”. […]
PATHOUMPHONE DISTRICT, Lao PDR – “I feel proud and happy that the world population is reaching 8 billion, especially because I know that it is partly because of the good work of midwives as we work to save lives every day,” said 27-year-old Amina Singsavanh, a midwife working in Pathoumphone district, Lao PDR. Amina was […]
