Executive SummaryChild marriage, which is rooted in deeply entrenched gender inequality, afects as many as one in fve girls globally. Evidence suggests that child marriage tends to increase during conficts and displacement. Yet the prevention of and re…
Continue ReadingExecutive SummaryChild marriage, which is rooted in deeply entrenched gender inequality, afects as many as one in fve girls globally. Evidence suggests that child marriage tends to increase during conficts and displacement. Yet the prevention of and re…
Continue ReadingMidwifery educator Duncan Shikuku will never forget the day in 2011 when a new mother was rushed into the hospital where he worked, carried by her family.“She was listless and bleeding. Within minutes, we had lost her,” Mr. Shikuku says. “No one should…
Continue ReadingMidwifery educator Duncan Shikuku will never forget the day in 2011 when a new mother was rushed into the hospital where he worked, carried by her family.“She was listless and bleeding. Within minutes, we had lost her,” Mr. Shikuku says. “No one should…
Continue ReadingA two-day conference to highlight the key environmental role and value of the world’s rainforests got underway in Gabon Wednesday, backed by several leaders of tropical countries.”Forests potentially represent 20-30 percent of the solution to climate c…
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