Dec 8, 2017 | Blog, Health & Human Security
In 2015, 100,000 girls ages 15-24 were infected with HIV in South Africa, compared with 42,000 boys. Soul City Institute for Social Justice created RISE Young Women’s Clubs to help shrink these catastrophic numbers, but calls for more funding and programming for...
Sep 21, 2017 | Blog, Health & Human Security, Operational and Delivery Networks
Infant and maternal tetanus has officially been eliminated from the Americas this year, the Pan American Health Organization announced. The infection was the cause of 10,000 newborn deaths annually in the Western Hemisphere, a number considered low by experts due to...
Mar 31, 2017 | Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security, Human Rights, Knowledge Networks
After the record-shattering Women’s March demonstration of global solidarity on the second day of the Trump presidency women could be forgiven for believing that they were making their voices heard around the world. Then the women of the US were shown a new...
Jun 21, 2016 | Advocacy Networks, Health & Human Security
The 2011 revolution that began in Tunisia reverberates with decades of abuses and repression that women had suffered under the 30 year presidency of Habib Bourguiba and that continued and were amplified under the presidency of Ben Ali before he was overthrown in the...
Dec 15, 2015 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
For the first time Saudi women have the right to vote in their country’s elections. The recent elections were historic not only for the suffrage of the women voters, but because women were also running for positions in the government. 978 women registered as...
