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  • A Mother breaks barriers to send her Son to School

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    Kumari Magar accompanied by her husband, Milan Kumar Magar never gave up going to different hospitals outside their village in the hopes to cure their son, Kiran Thapa Magar of blindness. Kiran was born with blindness in a remote village in the Okhaldhunga District of Nepal’s Province 1 in 2010. […]

  • Salvadoran First Lady, Vanda Pignato, receives a hug from a supporter at an International Women's Day event in San Salvador. Photo by Jamie Stark.

    Steps toward equality amidst machismo in El Salvador

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    SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR – Small signs of support for gender equality are popping up here in Central America. Women’s rights are more than pressing here in El Salvador, the nation with the highest rate of femicide in the world. Yet changes are evident and increasingly popular. The current left-leaning […]

  • Gender equality is crucial for sustained economic growth

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      Bangladesh recently had a new statistic to flaunt- a 26% drop in poverty over the past decade. Yet as encouraging as this macro-economic achievement might be, there is still no reason to get too enthusiastic about it, given that deep seated inequality in Bangladeshi society continues to put the brakes […]

  • A woman’s worth less?

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    When Jane opened a letter from her manager about her request for a pay rise, she was overcome with that sinking feeling that many Australian working women know only too well. After 13 years as a medical receptionist at an inner city Melbourne medical practice, not only did the response […]

  • The Silent Economy: Mexico’s Forgotten Women Workers

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    Far beyond the aggregated numbers of an urban economy lies a silent and untraceable population working everyday to sustain entire families, doing whatever is humanly possible to get out of poverty. From the woman picking up garbage to housemaids, prostitutes, newspaper sellers, housewives and “viene vienes” (those who illegally rent […]