Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women

MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN LGBT Rights in the Developing World: The Role of Religion

Empowering Women and Improving Female Reproductive Health through Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases

Secretary Hillary Clinton has made the rights of women, especially those living in low-income countries, a central theme of her tenure at the United States Department of State. During her recent 11-day trip to sub-Saharan Africa, issues of gender equality and empowering women arguably had their highest profile ever [1], and there is a clear commitment by both the Secretary and the Obama adminis...

Promising international interventions and treatment for women who use and abuse drugs: focusing on the issues through the InWomen’s Group

Globally, an estimated 205 million people use illicit drugs and among them 25 million people are drug dependent. Although women do not constitute the majority of all alcohol and other drug users, substance use has been steadily increasing among women and particularly among young women. 2–5 Furthermore, with a few exceptions, the majority of research on women's substance abuse, interventions, an...

Gender-sensitive social protection and the MDGs - ODI Briefing Papers 61

• Policy dialogue on the Millennium Development Goals must recognise that the goals are linked by the gender dynamics of power, poverty and vulnerability • Gender-sensitive social protection can contribute to the goals, but only if gender equality is seen as critical to programme effectiveness • Advances in gendersensitive programme design are being made but more investment is needed to build t...

Gender Issues and Public Health.

Gender is one of the most important considerations in public health research and program implementation. Basic issues such as protecting women from violence, upholding their rights to property and equality in access to health, education, employment, and political participation are important to society and for public health. Gender inequality exists both within and outside the health system and ...