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Climate Change in Kenya is changing women’s lives

Mother and son in Kenya desert

Ann Kobia Makena - WNN Features (WNN) Nairobi, KENYA, AFRICA: Under a swiftly shifting landscape in rural Kenya, climate change and its impacts have drastically changed numerous lives in the African nation of Kenya, especially for rural Kenyan pastoralists who depend almost exclusively on rainfall and adequate water supplies. Water in local ecosystems has been shifting [...]

NEPAL: Orphaned children build family relationships in SOS Villages

SOS Children's Villages Surya Kamari with one of her 'granddaughters' Aarju

Stephan Bailey – WNN Features WNN – Women News Network journalist Stephen Bailey stops in Kathmandu to spend time and talk with Ms. Surya Kamari, one of the former ‘moms’, and later ‘grandmothers’, who worked with countless orphaned children through a very special program called SOS Children’s Villages Nepal. For International Women’s Day we are [...]

Ethiopian orphans & teens give learning a chance through ‘kid inspired’ TV

Ethiopian Television Producer Buktawit Tegabu surrounded by kids who are excited to touch on of the characters in her TV series 'Tsehai Loves Learning.'

Deborah Mazon – WNN Features (WNN) Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA, AFRICA: In an African country where HIV/AIDS orphans are a normal part of the landscape, one woman is working to create a new life for Ethiopian kids who live without their parents each day. Her work started as part of a grass roots-movement that began to [...]

International women in film & arts gather at UN to stop violence against women

Canadian born Chinese woman filmmaker Tiffany Hsiung lets former Chinese Comfort Woman, Grandma Zhou in Shan Xi province, China August 7, 2010

WNN Breaking (WNN) UN New York, New York, UNITED STATES: At the United Nations Headquarters in New York, for the UNCSW – UN Commission on the Status of Women conference on March 4, 2013, an important discussion that touches the very core of global society will take place. Since the 2013 new year the answers [...]

INDIA: Unneeded surgeries for women expose nationwide corruption

Women from the Sahu family who were victims to unscrupulous doctors in India

Shuriah Niazi – WNN Features (WNN) Raipur, State of Chhattisgarh, INDIA, SOUTH ASIA: Long range investigations into a stark and disturbing trend in medical corruption is continuing in Central India. In the Hasda village of Raipur District in India’s State of Chhattisgarh, women are being subjected to deceit and physical loss. These loses have not [...]

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