Women’s empowerment is a crucial aim of the social networking site Fuzia. Credit: Fuzia
NEW YORK, Jan 4 2021 (IPS) – A cherished snapshot of a happy mother and a smiling grandmother is universally associated with a good childhood. In the movies, TV, or media, a broken or depressed mother’s face is hardly seen. But the reality is somewhat different. The measures communities and society take to ensure that women and girls are protected and supported are often questioned.
Shraddha Varma, co-founder, and director of social networking site Fuzia believes in enhancing women’s lives.
“Women empowerment is incomplete without key aspects like health, well…
Chiring Tamang holds the family’s new baby while his wife Priya looks on. She delivered the girl at home in their village in Nepal’s Sindhupalchowk district in February 2021. Credit: Marty Logan / IPS
Kathmandu, Nepal, Jul 21 2021 (IPS) – One year after Nepal’s Ministry of Health (MoH) appealed to international organisations in the country to urgently supply a drug used to stop excessive bleeding after childbirth, a UN agency has delivered $1 million worth of contraceptives to prevent another shortage.
The 1.6 million cycles of oral contraceptive pills and 776,000 units of injectable contraceptives and syringes will prevent roughly 75 000 unintended pregnancies, …
Ras Bongo Wisely Tafari (far right) holds on to the CARICOM’s symbol of the reparatory justice movement, the reparations baton, in Castries, Saint Lucia. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPS
DOMINICA, Oct 18 2021 (IPS) – The Rastafarian organizations in the Caribbean are determined that the issue of slavery reparations will emerge from the eclipse of COVID-19.
As the world deals with the impacts of efforts to contain the virus’ spread and regional governments tackle vaccine hesitancy and a wave of misinformation, issues not directly related to COVID-19 have had to be temporarily shelved.
However, members of the Caribbean Rastafari Organization are determined …
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 10 2022 (IPS) – The global consensus about an international treaty on pandemic prevention is certainly a milestone towards the creation of a global health security framework.
A new treaty is likely to bind the member states to higher standards of compliance, especially if a global accountability mechanism is also enforced.
Consider the disregard towards the International Health Regulations (2005), IHRs, the only tool available to control what in jargon is referred as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
Despite numerous review exercises, some of which taken more than a decade ago in the aftermath of the first…