By: Yousra Yusuf, Women Deliver
Today, at least 222 million women worldwide have an unmet need for modern contraceptives. Family planning is a proven life-saving solution with the power to avert 70% of maternal deaths, yet many people around the world do not have access to the contraceptive information and services they need. This past year in Jordan, the USAID-SHOPS national media campaign was introduced to increase oral contraceptive use among women. The campaign has already seen promising results—there has been a 33% country-wide increase in oral contraceptive pill sales. Read more...
Updates
Celebrate Solutions: Jordanian Media Campaign Increases Family Planning Use
October 29th, 2012
Catapult: The Exciting New Crowdfunding Platform for NGOs
October 25th, 2012
By: Tanya Cothran; Originally posted on WhyDev
Action. Transparency. User feedback. Equality. These words kept popping up as I talked with Maz Kessler, founder and creative director of Catapult, about her new crowd-funding platform. Catapult, which went live in beta form on October 11, is dedicated to promoting equality for women and girls by giving women and girl-focused organizations a place to campaign online. Read more...
Op-Ed: A Girls’ Education - A Challenge of Global Proportions
October 25th, 2012
By: Kay Bailey Hutchinson; Originally posted on San Antonio Express
Kay Bailey Hutchison is the senior U.S. senator from Texas.
Gunmen stormed a school bus earlier this month and shot a 14-year-old girl in the head. Her crime? Getting an education. This seems almost inconceivable to those of us blessed to live in America, but in some areas of the globe, girls must risk their lives to get a basic education. Malala Yousafzai became a prominent voice for girls' education in Pakistan after the Taliban seized control of her native Swat - once a tourist destination renowned for its scenery, culture and open-mindedness - and forced an end to education for women and girls. Read more...
Slow Progress in Closing Global Economic Gender Gap, New Major Study Finds
October 24th, 2012
New York, USA, 24 October 2012 – The seventh annual World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2012 ranks Nordic countries in top spots, with Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden having closed over 80% of their gender gaps. At the bottom of the ranking, some countries still need to close gender gaps of almost 50%, while more than half of those countries surveyed have failed to close their economic gender gap by more than 5% in the past seven years. Read more...
Every Woman Every Child Progress 2012
October 22nd, 2012
Originally posted on Every Women Every Child YouTube
Since its launch in September 2010, the Every Woman Every Child movement, led by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has helped catalyze new attention and investment to some of the most neglected causes of women's and children's mortality. Read more...