Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 1/2022

Empower women

Gender equality

Successes and setbacks in women's equality

Despite the pandemic, UNICEF never lost sight of its commitment to gender equality

Disability

Empowering women and changing minds

Civil-society organisations are calling for the empowerment of disabled women who have experienced violence

Disempowerment

Where women work and men decide

According to a Burundian saying, he who lacks a good woman lacks wealth

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Emancipation

Women are slowly asserting themselves in MENA region

In Arab countries, examples prove that patriarchal family traditions can indeed be changed

Mauritius

How Mauritian journalists report about women

Researcher provides evidence of Mauritian media not treating both genders equally

Gender justice

To empower women, pass and enforce laws

Africa needs more women in positions of leadership, and that will require socio-cultural change

Menstruation

Biological facts every girl must know

A new digital app helps to break the taboo surrounding girls’ menstruation in Pakistan

Gender justice

How education and employment improve gender equality

Gender justice depends on women’s self-confidence, and public policy can make a difference

Our view

The common good depends on women’s empowerment

Gender justice concerns not only women, but society in general

Women’s rights

Dominican women want laws to protect them

In the eyes of feminists, reforms of the Dominican Republic’s penal code are heading in the wrong direction

Reproductive health

Argentina’s new abortion law

Legislators in Buenos Aires allow pregnant women to choose whether they want a baby or not

The Sahel

Moving from crisis to dynamism on Sahara’s southern edges

Sahel countries, known mainly for many problems, must do their best to get a demographic dividend