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Gender Equity Key to Feeding 9 Billion by 2050
›“Valuing women, paying greater attention to women’s rights – that’s the solution to our population growth issues and, I would argue, it’s also the solution to our food security challenges,” said Suzanne Petroni at the Thought for Food Summit in Berlin last year.
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Haleh Esfandiari, The Wall Street Journal
ISIS’s Cruelty Toward Women Gets Scant Attention
›September 11, 2014 // By Wilson Center Staff
Tucked away in a recent New York Times story on military operations against ISIS by Iraqi special forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga was a brief description of what these troops discovered when they entered a village in Iraq that had been occupied by ISIS fighters. A naked woman, tied to a tree, who had been repeatedly raped by ISIS fighters. Another woman was discovered in a second village, similarly naked, tied down and repeatedly raped. The fighters, it appears, are “rewarded” by being allowed to have their way with captured women.
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Underage: Addressing Reproductive Health and HIV Needs in Married Adolescent Girls
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In July, thousands of people attended the 20th International AIDS Conference and the 2014 Girls Summit to work towards an AIDS-free generation and ending child and forced marriage. But such attention is rare; by and large, these girls are invisible to development efforts. [Video Below]
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Overcoming Malnutrition Key to Maternal and Child Health Improvements, Says Dr. Ranu Dhillon
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With less than 500 days until they expire, it’s almost certain that the Millennium Development Goals on child mortality and maternal health will be missed by many countries. Already, work on drafting the MDG successors has begun; but unless policymakers put nutrition at the center of maternal and child health systems, reducing global maternal and child mortality ratios by an appreciable amount will be difficult, says Dr. Ranu Dhillon in this week’s podcast.
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Accelerating a Cycle of Violence: Tallying the Damage to Gaza’s Youth
›August 25, 2014 // By Sarah Meyerhoff
Amid stop-and-start ceasefires, the tally of death and destruction from the recent conflict in the Gaza Strip has begun. Whatever the final losses incurred – casualties and damage are considerable with estimates varying significantly depending on the source – Gaza’s youngest residents are likely to be most profoundly affected.
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Jacob Glass, PassBlue
New Investment Law in Peru Undermines Rights of Indigenous Women
›August 22, 2014 // By Wilson Center Staff
A new law in Peru encouraging investment in the country’s extractive industries has reignited debate on the lack of power indigenous women have in the mostly rural societies where they often live. The International Indigenous Women’s Forum, which drew more than 60 native women from across the world to Peru last month, highlighted this important issue.
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Sexual Violence Beyond the Warzone, and the Relationship Between Child Marriage and Fragile States
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Two recent reports reaffirm the particular vulnerability of women and children in disasters, conflicts, and fragile states, but also highlight gaps in common perceptions of their experiences.
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Somali Refugees Show How Conflict, Gender, Environmental Scarcity Become Entwined
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Under international law, someone who flees their country because of conflict or persecution is a refugee, but someone who flees because of inability to meet their basic household needs is not. In the case of Somalia, it is increasingly difficult to make any meaningful distinction between the two.
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