WATCHING OUR WOMEN, GIRLS AND CHILDREN’S HEALTH A three-year “Catalysing Leadership to improve Women, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Wellbeing” (WNCAW) Project is being implemented in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Niger and Côte d’Ivoire. The WNCAW project focuses on issues related to vulnerable groups including women, new born, children and adolescents. The overall Goal of...
KEY FACTS ON SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH According to the World Health Organisation every day, approximately 830 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Also, about 99% of all maternal deaths occur in developing countries Every day in 2017, approximately 810 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. 94%...
Activists have welcomed the Sudanese government’s move to criminalise Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The transitional government amended the criminal code in an effort to protect women and girls from the traditional practice that is considered a violation of human rights. “There is so much that women’s groups are pushing for and the criminalization of FGM...
Emanuela Paul is the Rethinking Power Program Coordinator with Beyond Borders/Depase Fwontyè yo. The programme focuses on preventing violence against women and girls, including women and girls with disabilities, in Haiti and implements a project with funding from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. In light of COVID-19, she explains how her...