Gender Based Violence

Skills To Survive: Providing Refugee Women The Right To Work

Samuel Witten | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Job Skills, Women's Refugee Commission, Emergencies, Human Rights, Economic Opportunities, Humanitarian, Livelihoods, Gender-Based Violence, Refugees, Gender, Impact News
Samuel Witten

Refugees are victims of circumstances they did not create and cannot control. And women, often unaccompanied by men, caring for young children, and lacking in job skills and opportunities, generally have the most difficult time.

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Zero Tolerance of Violence a Must So All Women Live to Fullest Potential

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Population, Violence Against Women, Unfpa, Humanitarian, Gender-Based Violence, United Nations, Impact News
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin

Violence against women and girls reflects and reinforces inequities between men and women and compromises the health, dignity, and security of its survivors.

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What Does Rape Have To Do With Trees?

Jamie Bechtel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conservation, New Course, Jamie Bechtel, Development, Gender-Based Violence, Fisheries, Women, Africa, Biodiversity, Rape, Povery-Alleviation, Impact News
Jamie Bechtel

What does rape have to do with trees? What does HIV have to do with fish? Blindness with water? Everything. Especially if you are a woman in the developing world and you are trying to feed your family.

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150 Million Women to Wield Mobile Phones as Tools for Change

Witness | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Violence Against Women, Gender-Based Violence, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Mobile Phones, Impact News
Witness

Two weeks ago, I participated in a panel organized by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Office of Global Women's Issues called "Mobile Technologies as an Effective Tool for Women's Empowerment and Global Development."

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Ending the Conflict Minerals Trade

Robert Hormats | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gesi, Tungsten, Conflict Minerals, Drc, Congo, Economic, Robert Hormats, Un Mission in Congo, Prostitution, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Fdlr, Trafficking, Conflict, United Nations, Sgbv, Monuc, Secretary Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rape, Gender Based Violence, Ngos, Eicc, Tin, Tantalum, Fardc, Agricultural Affairs, Sexual and Gender Based Violence, Kabila, President Kabila, Cndp, Under Secretary, Democratic Republic of Congo, Energy, Hillary Clinton, Gdrc, Politics News
Robert Hormats

Huffington Post readers may be surprised to learn that the world's deadliest conflict since World War II is still occurring -- in the Democratic Repub...

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Why Refugees Need to Make a Living

Dale Buscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gender-Based-Violence, Displaced People, Female Exploitation, Civil War, Sexploitation, Pakistan, Displaced Persons Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Human Rights Abuses, Sri Lanka Violence, Humanitarian Aid, Prostitution, Sri Lanka Civil War, Sri Lanka Rebels, Thailand Burmese Refugees, Human Rights, Exploitation, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Pakistan Crisis, Humanitarian Crisis, Sri Lanka Civilian Deaths, International Aid, Refugees, World News
Dale Buscher

It is time to implement interventions that are tailored to the local context, that build on the refugees' existing skills, and that match local market demand.

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Hillary Clinton, Rape and Mobile Phones

Lesley-Anne Knight | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Secretary Clinton, Rape, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Congo, Africa, Mobile Phones, A Caritas, Hillary Clinton, Congo, Gender-Based Violence, Lord's Resistance Army, Laurent Nkunda, Joseph Kony, World News
Lesley-Anne Knight

The protection of the people of the Congo needs to be a priority for the Congolese Government and the international community.

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