Activists are pushing the World Bank and IMF to change the lens through which they view gender’s role in development. Although women are the majority of the world’s poor, activists say, the institutions overlook that when influencing economies.
After working inside the World Bank as an economist earlier in her career, Elaine Zuckerman is now on […]

Five distinguished women researchers in the life sciences were named on October 5th as recipients of the 10th annual L’OREAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science. The international Life Science Awards Jury, which was presided by Professor Gunter Blobel, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999, is made up of 18 eminent members of the scientific community. Professor Christian de Duve, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974, is the Founding President of the Awards.

On the eve of a Security Council debate on the role of women in peace and security, two senior United Nations officials have stressed the need to combat gender-based violence and to ensure that violations of women’s rights, including the use of rape as a weapon of war, are viewed as a security issue.

Attaining Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 – one of several global anti-poverty and development targets agreed to by a UN summit in 2000 – requires an annual decline of 5.5 per cent in maternal mortality ratios between 1990 and 2015. But the current annual decline is less than 1 per cent, according to figures released by the UN World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Bank.