(2012) The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University in 1991.
(November 2012) Over the last decade, Ethiopia has made amazing progress in improving the health and development of its people. Infant and maternal mortality are on the decline, under-5 mortality has been cut in half, and literacy has nearly doubled.
(November 2012) Most of the money migrant workers send home to sub-Saharan Africa is spent on education, health care, buying land, building houses, starting business or improving farms, according to recent surveys.
(November 2012) Each day, around 19,000 children die before reaching age 5. That number is 14,000 fewer per day than two decades ago, reflecting global progress in child survival.
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(Octobre 2012) La malnutrition contribue à 2,6 millions de décès d’enfants chaque année dans le monde, soit plus d’un décès sur trois de l’ensemble des décès infantiles.
There is a growing gap in the United States between the haves and the have-nots.
(August 2012) Children growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods are at higher risk of health problems, teen pregnancy, dropping out of school, and other social and economic problems compared with children living in more-affluent communities.
(2012) Since 2002, the United States has had the highest incarceration rate in the world. Although prison populations are increasing in some parts of the world, the natural rate of incarceration for countries comparable to the United States tends to stay around 100 prisoners per 100,000 population.
(2012) On Aug. 8, 2012, Sara Rasmussen-Tall, USAID’s Social Protection Unit Leader in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), presented at a Brown Bag organized by the IGWG Gender-Based Violence Task Force on the challenges and successes encountered in her work providing support to DRC’s survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).
Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 26: For most people, the probability of having a physical or mental disability increases with age, as does the number of ailments they might have at any time—particularly after age 70.