Ripple Effects: Population and Coastal Regions
(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.
(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.
(2008) The impact of the devastating financial crisis on the U.S. workforce is becoming clear. Numerous economic indicators have pointed downward following the federal government's $700 billion bank bailout in October 2008.
(2010) In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), HEAL Africa provides free health and psychosocial services to survivors of gender-based violence. Jeanne Muliri Kabekatyo ("Mama Muliri") pioneered and leads Heal My People, HEAL Africa's strategic response to gender-based violence.
(2011) Kakenya Ntaiya was born in a rural village in southern Kenya, one of eight children. When she was 5 years old, her parents arranged an engagement to a local boy. She was to be circumcised before becoming a teenager to signify the end of her education and the start of married life. I
(2009) As many as 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), and more than 3 million girls are at risk for cutting each year on the African continent alone.
(2006) Adolescent U.S. girls are being arrested in record numbers. And every year brings new media attention to mean or aggressive girls' behavior—with sensational newspaper headlines and book titles such as See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It and Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence.1 Could there be an epidemic of violence in the United States among girls—who have traditionally been considered more mature and less trouble to raise than boys?