The Global Women's Network Celebrates Women's History Month
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Since 1980, the implementation of China’s One-Child Policy has led to female gendercide, abandonment of daughters, child trafficking and violations of women’s reproductive rights. All Girls Allowed aims to end gendercide through their program Baby Shower Gift program they are showing Chinese people that a baby girl is valuable. The movement started by All Girls Allowed has taken flight and on June 1st members of Congress met and signed the Declaration to End Gendercide which was drafted by AGA. Watch this video to learn more about All Girls Allowed’s work.
2012/05/05 This is a story about Kennedy Odede a 27yrs old Kenyan who despite his poor upbringing has worked hard to bring change to the unprivileged children.
Odede a student at the Wesleyan University is Shinning Hope for communities, an organization that works to empower women in Kibera(one of the biggest slum worldwide) in an annual mothers day fundraising among other programmes.
Jane achieng Odede, Kennedy's mother gave her message through his son for the this special day; "Skip the flowers. Instead buy Hope" [www.courant.com/news/connecticut Read more at The Hartford Courant]
2012/05/01 Uruguay’s move to be the first country to ratify the international Domestic Workers Convention brings long overdue protections closer to reality for millions of women and girls worldwide, Human Rights Watch said today. Read more at Human Rights Watch
2012/04/25 In the survey, 61.2 percent of currently married women said that they were using some form of family planning, a level comparable to developed countries. The use of modern methods was quite high at 52.1 percent. Unlike neighboring India, where female sterilization predominates, the contraceptive pill is the most widely used modern method at 27.2 percent, followed by injectables (11.2 percent), and the male condom (5.5 percent). Contraceptive use has risen steadily in surveys, up from 7.7 percent in 1975. Read more at PRB Blog
