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women’s empowerment

World Politics

By Lisa Nikolau25 April 2017

Outrage after Saudi Arabia elected to U.N. women’s rights commission

Widespread backlash has followed Saudi Arabia’s election to the United Nations commission for the empowerment of women, with women’s rights advocates citing the country’s notoriety for being the world’s most gender-segregated nation.

Environment

By Tom Murphy16 November 2016

Natural disasters hit the poor the hardest, empowering women can help fix that

Each year natural disasters force as many as 26 million people back into poverty, according to a new report from the World Bank, posing a formidable challenge in the fight to end poverty. But new research shows that there is a way to help the world’s poor deal with disasters – empower women.