Gender in the Media: October 2018
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The media review presents every month a selection of articles from different media sources on “gender and development” issues. the list of articles is regularly updated during the current month.
October 2018
16-31 October
- Norway Apologizes, 70 Years Later, to Women Who Had Relationships With WWII Germans (The New York Times)
- These Women Are Saving Lives, One Pregnancy at a Time (The New York Times)
- The Informal Bank That Empowers Kenya’s Poorest Women (News Deeply)
- Menstrual Discrimination Is Illegal in Nepal – but No One Is Listening (News Deeply)
- The Ugandan Sanitary Pad Factory Keeping Girls in School (News Deeply)
- The Women Engineers Solving Tanzania’s Sanitation Problems (News Deeply)
- The Indian Women Campaigning for Clean Water (News Deeply)
- The 2018 Women In The Workplace Report Shows That Promises Aren’t Enough To Reach Gender Equality (Bustle)
- Women in agriculture in developed, developing countries feel removing barriers to equality will take decades (Times of India)
- UN chief decries failure to bring women into peacemaking (The Washington Post)
- Ethiopia appoints 1st woman president, after approving gender-balanced Cabinet (ABC News)
- How Daycare and Savings Groups Empowered Women in a Nairobi Slum (News Deeply)
- Gender inequality linked to deaths of girls under 5, new analysis says (CNN)
1-15 October
- Afghanistan – Lack of female observers to negatively impact elections (Pajhwok)
- Laureates from Jamaica and Egypt to receive the 2018 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education (UNESCO)
- Greece – Voices of Displaced Women & Girls Must Be Heard (Muftah)
- Malaysia – UN Expert Says Child Marriages Must End (UN Human Rights)
- A call to protect women and girls on the move (Development Aid)
- Maybe Girls Will Save Us (The New York Times)
- Kosovo – After Two Decades, Women War Rape Victims Get Recognition & War Pensions (The Guardian)
- USA – Racial Discrimination Can Take a Heavy Toll on Latino & Asian Teens (Psychcentral)
- Gaza/Palestine – Women Create New Work & Roles Amidst the Siege (TRT World)
- The Old Rules of the Workplace Aren’t Working. At Least Not for Women. (The New York Times)
- Pakistan – Increase in Attacks on Girls’ Schools in Remote Chitral District (Tribune)
- Tajikistan – Hijab-Wearing & Beards Ban Continues (Forum 18)
- Nigeria – Boko Haram Threatens to Kill Schoolgirl Captive if Demands Not Met (CNN World)
- African Development Bank to host seminar on promotion of gender equality in Africa’s power sector (Development Aid)
- International Day of Rural Women 2018: 5 problems, many solutions (India Today)
- ‘No food security without rights for rural women’ – campaigners launch demands for rights of rural women ahead of World Food Security Summit (Relief Web)
- Latin American Rural Women Call for Recognition and Policies (IPS News)
- Govt incorporates rural women in national development (The Herald)