Rural women as decision makers viewed as pivotal to climate change solutions

Somalia women and children wait in line for UN aid as drought conditions continue

Jessica Buchleitner – WNN Features (WNN) GLOBAL: Bringing rural women’s voices to the decision making table was one of the discussions throughout the recent two week Durban Climate Talks (COP17) which ended on 9 December. One of the conference goals was to bring greater insights for action with solutions for climate change. But are global [...]

ZIMBABWE: Even with ‘Tapestries of Hope’ girl child violence continues

Zimbabwe Iren Maduwa who died of AIDS 2004

Lakshmi Eassey – WNN Reviews (WNN) ZIMBABWE, Africa: Three-year-old Runyararo screams every time she sees a man. She was found abandoned at a bus station. When the Girl Child Network Worldwide (GCNW) took her for an examination there was evidence of sexual assault, and attempted penetration, a clear sign of rape though she has not [...]

EGYPT: Gynecologist & Cairo woman discuss female mutilation

Building on the streets of Ail al Adha, Cairo.

Nanna Sejsbo – WNN Features (WNN) CAIRO: Heba, a 27 year old Egyptian woman, closes the door, offering a tray of glasses of sparkling red Karkale-nectar. Hibiscus-petals swim to the surface of the drink. The walls of her apartment are likewise painted in clear colors, and the floors are lined with pillows. Heba does not [...]

Ugandan midwife speaks to current health needs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ugandan midwife Esther Madudu in the field

Sabine Clappaert – WNN Features (WNN) Deauville, FRANCE : “I came here to stand up for the voiceless mothers of Africa,” says thirty-one-year-old Ugandan nurse midwife and woman’s advocate Esther Madudu at Global Meeting 2011 of the Women’s Forum for Economy and Society in Deauville, France. She begins with murmured conversations dying down to hear [...]

Malawi’s solar micro-finance initiative builds business for women entrepreneurs

Malawi solar entrepreneur Victoria

Jessica Buchleitner –  WNN Features (WNN) Kasungu, Malawi: In the small landlocked southeastern African nation of Malawi only 8% of its growing 15.263 million people are connected to the national power grid, a source of power that has become increasingly unreliable. For many women and their families this often means only one thing – complete [...]

EGYPT: Secret abortions help women circumvent honor violence

Young woman in a crowed city street.

Mannar Amar – WNN Features (WNN) CAIRO: *Twenty-two year old Amira went through a clandestine abortion to escape society’s retributions. She was in love with her boyfriend of five years and insisted that the pregnancy was an innocent mistake. When she first realized that she was late on her menstruation cycle she felt helpless and [...]

KENYA: Sex-trafficked women and girls also vulnerable to organ trafficking

Somali women refugees at Kenya refugee camp

Gitonga Njeru – WNN  Features (WNN) NAIROBI:  With the highest rate of human trafficking in East and Central Africa, several nongovernmental organizations in Kenya are now under investigation by INTERPOL , the world’s largest international police organization, with 188 member countries. The Interpol Sub-regional Bureau for Eastern Africa is based in Kenya’s capital in Nairobi. Young [...]

Cameroon ‘Aunties’ educate to protect rural girls from breast ironing

Cameroon girls

Eva Fernández Ortiz – WNN Features (WNN) CAMEROON: All mothers will do whatever it takes to protect their children’s well being. In Cameroon, this ‘protection’ goes as far as burning their teenage daughters’ breasts. Breast ironing is a traditional practice that painfully affects about one in four girls in Cameroon, Africa. But new education programs for [...]

Horn of Africa: Bringing dignity to drought victims through photojournalism

Lucie - Image copyright Rodney Rascona

Rodney Rascona – WNN Features (WNN) ETHIOPIA: An award winning photojournalist maps a journey toward dignity, empathy and understanding during the drought in the Horn of Africa It’s been over a decade now, since I had the ‘misfortune’ to cover famine along the Ethiopian/Kenyan border in a remote desert village near Gode, called Denan. Then, [...]

New Legal case brings needed attention to child marriage in Zambia

Zambian girls photo

Lillian Banda – WNN Features (WNN) LUSAKA: Had it not been for the prompt action of a concerned community, Zambian 15-year-old Evelyn Mwale would still be trapped in a forced marriage. In April 2011, the then14-year-old Mwale was told by her aunt and other family members that she had no choice; she must get married [...]

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