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Human Security & MDGs


Human Security & MDGs is a sub-theme of Reconstruction & Peacebuilding and provides information on Human Security and MDGs relevant to women and post-conflict reconstruction and Peacebuilding.

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  • November 2, 2012 (the Guardian)
    SIERRA LEONE: How do you tackle maternal mortality in Sierra Leone? Try asking a midwife The post-2015 development framework must be shaped by people with first-hand knowledge of the challenges that lie ahead
  • October 19, 2012 (InterPress Services)
    INTERNATIONAL:The Face of Food Security Is Female In a major endorsement for investment in women – the bulk of food growers in the developing world – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said food security could not be achieved without women, and that the world's hungry also needed leaders to prioritise actions.
  • October 15, 2012 (Bikyamasr)
    INTERNATIONAL: On International Day of Rural Women, Calls for Empowerment and End to Discrimination Highlighting the role in women in producing much of the world's food and caring for the environment, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in his message marking the International Day of Rural Women, today said that eliminating discrimination that prevents rural women from realizing their full potential is crucial to ending global hunger and poverty.
  • October 10, 2012 (InterPress News)
    INTERNATIONAL: Task Force to Kick Start Cairo Population Goals Gathered at the Ford Foundation in New York Monday, international luminaries, family planning experts and women's rights activists repeatedly expressed a common sentiment: “I cannot believe that we are still having this discussion today.” They were there to mark the launch of a new 26-member high-level task force to galvanise support behind the goals of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
  • October 8, 2012 (Women's News Network)
    UNITED STATES: Are Homeless Women Without Children in the U.S. Last to Get Sssistance? With a current population of 812,826 people, the west coast U.S. City of San Francisco, California is a beautiful seaside region, but the city is plagued with a grinding problem that also reaches across the country into every urban area – the problem of homelessness. With a current median income of $$71,975 USD San Francisco currently has 15,050 homeless people counted in the recent “State of Homelessness in America 2012” report by the National Alliance to End Homelessness with the Homelessness Research Institute. But is this the real number? And how many out of the number are women, especially single women?

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  • Women's Security and Transition in Afghanistan: Measuring the Success of Transition by Lasting Protections for Women's Security, Afghan Women's Network (AWN), May 2012 | Download PDF
  • Global Monitoring Report, 2007: Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States, International Monetary Fund, April 18, 2007 | Download PDF
  • The World's Women and Girls 2011 Data Sheet, Population Reference Bureau , 2011 | Download PDF
  • Violence Against Women: An Urgent Public Health Priority, World Health Organization (WHO), January 2011 | Download PDF
  • Gender Inequality and Social Institutions in the D.R. Congo, WILPF, April - December 2010 | Download PDF

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