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Austria was the top country in Europe for women’s health, ranking third on a global index, according to a new report. The country initiated an action plan with 40 measures specifically for women’s health in 2017. Germany, Denmark, Poland, and the Czech Republic were the other EU countries among the top 10 in the world on women’s health. This is the third year that the company Hologic published the Women’s Health Index, a survey conducted with more than 147,000 participants from 143 countries and territories. The data was gathered in 2022 and analysed in 2023. The index takes into consideration...
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A Taliban-run institute is training tourism and hospitality professionals to attract visitors to Afghanistan. Its debut student cohort consists of around 30 men, who are being trained in a Kabul classroom. The students vary in age, education level and professional experience. They're all men - Afghan women are banned from studying beyond sixth grade - and they don't know anything about tourism or hospitality. But they are all eager to promote a different side of Afghanistan. And the Taliban are happy to help. Afghanistan’s rulers are pariahs on the global stage, largely because of their restri...
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Eighty years ago, on April 21, 1944, France decreed that women would have the right to vote in postwar elections. At the time, France remained under German occupation, and General Charles de Gaulle was leading a provisional government. With other priorities taking precedence, French women did not actually cast their ballot for the first time until April 1945. After more than 150 years of agitating for this fundamental right of citizenship, French women finally secured the vote. This victory came rather late, especially considering the promising proclamations of women such as Olympe de Gouges d...
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Polish legislators voted on four separate bills on Friday to consider changes to the country's near-total ban on abortion, a highly controversial issue in the mainly Roman Catholic nation. Poland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe. Two of the proposals, including one from Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Platform party, aim to legalise abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy. ''Today is truly a symbolic day, a breakthrough day, and a day that our daughters and granddaughters will probably remember,'' Third Way party member Ewa Schaedler said. ''Something has happened ...
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Poverty has many faces, but its most common face is that of a woman, like 54-year-old Geneviève Baert, who lives in Belgium. Losing the family business when she was a teenager and caring for five children as a single mother pushed her into poverty. "I had a period when I was poor and I didn't know it," she says in an interview with Euronews. But aid networks pushed her to "fight in a different way, with other weapons" and prevented her from blaming herself. "It's society that doesn't put things around me so that I can evolve," she says. She is one of the 95.3 million people in the European Uni...
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The right to equal pay for work of equal value has been in place for years. One of the earliest countries in Europe to implement equal pay laws for women was Iceland in 1961, with other countries following suit. Despite this, women throughout Europe still earn much less than men: in 2022, the gender pay gap was 12.7% in the EU, which means women were earning €87.30 for every €100 earned by men. The persisting gender pay gap has even led to the concept of Women’s Pay Day — a day each year on which the average woman symbolically stops working for free based on salary comparison to the average ma...
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Every year, as 22 March rolls around, many in Europe and across the globe anticipate World Water Day with mixed feelings. While the previous 365 days have almost always seen some advancement in the role and status of women protecting freshwater globally, the day also provides a moment to reflect on where we go from here. While leading an annual program that seeks to empower early-career African women in freshwater science, I have many thoughts on the topic. When it comes to the status of women in STEM, the picture is complex, sometimes confusing, at times concerning, but ultimately hopeful. UN...
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The event, first celebrated in 1911, traces its roots to the early struggles for equal pay and votes for women. On Women's Day in Italy, a nationwide general strike for women's rights is underway, organised by most trade unions across the political spectrum. Sectors such as schools, healthcare, and other industries are participating in the strike, with minor disruptions reported in regional train services, while long-distance transport remains operational. In major Italian cities including Rome and Milan, marches organised by unions and women's associations advocate for equal treatment of male...
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From local action to global finance, there are ways to ensure that climate adaptation programmes address gender inequalities. Amina is one of tens of thousands of Kenyans displaced by catastrophic floods – aggravated by climate change – in late 2023. Her home destroyed, she and her child sought temporary shelter along with several other women from her community. “Our husbands left to take the livestock to high areas where floods would not hit,” she recalls. “Only women remained…. This led to an increase in rape cases for young girls and women”. With the floods preventing access to hospitals, o...
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More than 230 million women and girls around the world have now undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children's agency. In the last eight years, some 30 million people have undergone the procedure, in which external genitalia are partially or fully removed, UNICEF estimated in the report, which was released on International Women's Day. The percentage of women and girls who experience female genital mutilation is declining, UNICEF said, but it warned that efforts to eradicate the practice are too slow to ...
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