Globally, women are most likely to be responsible for fetching water for households, while girls are nearly twice as likely as boys to bear the responsibility, and spend more time doing it each day, according to a new report released today by UNICEF and WHO. Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) 2000-2022:...
Dr Charity Binka, Executive Director, Women, Media, and Change (WOMEC), says girls must be at the forefront of change initiatives to ensure their inclusion in decision-making. She said while investments in girls continued to be scarce, the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises had negatively affected them, making life harder for them. She said girls...
Professor Stanley Okolo, Director-General of the West Africa Health Organization (WAHO) says Africa needs bold Journalists who will speak up for change in women and children’s health. He said the health needs of women must preoccupy every well-meaning African to ensure that the health systems and arrangements responded to the needs of women and children....
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is an essential building block to achieving gender equality, but it’s restricted globally. Families everywhere are trapped in cycles of poverty because they do not have the option to plan when to have children or decide how big they want their family to be. Meanwhile, countries that don’t categorize rape...
An increasing number of young women are at increased risk of having children born with impaired neurological conditions, due to poor iodine intake. Dietary changes, including a growing trend towards the avoidance of bread and iodised salt, as well as a reduced intake of animal products containing iodine can contribute to low iodine levels. A...
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Girls around the world are using innovation and technology to solve problems, to unite communities and as a force for good and equality. And yet, women and girls are still under-represented in STEM fields. In an increasingly digitized world economy, the gender digital divide has severe repercussion for girls’ and...
• The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women’s economic participation. • Gender equality cannot be achieved without support from the private sector. • A new survey shows strong worldwide belief that the private sector must lead on gender initiatives. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Economic Forum estimated that it would take almost 100...
Dr. Esther Priscila Biamah-Danquah, the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Director has disclosed that the Municipality witnessed 69 cases of teenage pregnancies in 2020. “I know last year we recorded about 69 cases of teenage pregnancies and this is alarming, even one case calls for an action,” Dr Biamah-Danquah stated at Kpone near Tema during the launch...
African girls and women are looking to benefit from an initiative promoting gender equality as part of inclusive economic growth across the continent. The African Development Bank’s newly approved Gender Strategy for 2021-25 has the theme “Investing in Africa’s women to accelerate inclusive growth”. The strategy seeks to strengthen the bank’s commitment to the empowerment...
The Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), human rights and anti-corruption advocacy media organization has ended this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign with a call on traditional leaders to desist from interfering with the law and shielding persons who sexually abuse young girls in society. Addressing a Summit dubbed “School Girls Summit” with...
