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Women, Children Feeling Effects Of Climate Change

Published date: 
2 May 2009
A United Nations official has warned that climate change will affect the lives of women and children more. 

African Women Worst Affected by Global Economic Crisis

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IPS News

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Author: 
Kudzai Makombe
Published Date: 
2009
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The global financial crisis is on everyone's lips. With first hand reports of job losses, house foreclosures and citizens living on credit card debt, the impact of the crisis on the individual worker in the developed world is clear. In Africa, there have been threats of closures and retrenchments in the Zambian copper mines and Botswana's diamond mines, amongst others. But the impact on the individual citizen and African women in particular, given the existing gender inequalities, has not been well documented.
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Commentary: 'Educate A Woman, Create A Nation'

Published date: 
13 Mar 2009
As we mark International Women's Month in March, Dina Habib Powell the Global Head of Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sachs says there is progress in recognising the importance of women's roles in families, nations and economies.

Women Leaders Commit To Full Implementation Of UNSCR 1325 at International Women’s Colloquium In Liberia

Published date: 
10 Mar 2009
Hundreds of women from governments, multi-national organisations, civil society and traditional women groups from around the world converged on Monrovia, Liberia on March 7-8 to participate in the International Colloquium on Women’s Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security.

Women Die While Goals Not Achieved

Published date: 
26 Jan 2009
More than half a million women over the world every year die during pregnancy or childbirth, and over 90 per cent of these largely preventable deaths occur in developing countries, a United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem) report revealed last week.
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