International News
Corona Impact: Gender Pay Gap Likely to Get Worse as More Women Get Laid Off, Take Time off Work
31 March 2020 | Christine Murray
MEXICO CITY: Advances in closing the worldwide gender pay gap are at risk of being reversed by the coronavirus, experts and advocates warn, as women take time off work to care for others and the low-p...
Corona Impact: Gender Pay Gap Likely to Get Worse as More Women Get Laid Off, Take Time off Work
31 March 2020 | Christine Murray
MEXICO CITY: Advances in closing the worldwide gender pay gap are at risk of being reversed by the coronavirus, experts and advocates warn, as women take time off work to care for others and the low-p...
India: India's Women Seaweed Divers Swim Against the Tide of Climate Change
30 March 2020 | Anuradha Nagaraj, Reuters
Ramanathapuram, India - In a blue plastic barrel, Meenakshi Mookupori packed her belongings for a five-day stay on an island in the Indian Ocean, off the Coromandal coast of south India. Besides her...
Syria: Amid Syria’s Civil War, a Rise in Miscarriages Among Displaced Women in the Northeast
23 March 2020 | Nicola Pardy
Kobane, Syria—Miscarriages have surged among displaced women in northeastern Syria over the last several months, according to a report released in January by Women Defend Rojava. As the Syrian wa...
Malaysia: Malaysia's Women Eco-Activists Fight on in the Face of Threats and Prison
18 March 2020 | Fatimah Hashim
In conjunction with International Women's Day 2020 last week, StarLifestyle spoke to four Malaysian women activists who shared their stories on how and why they're passionate about protecting the en...
South Sudan: Women Plough the Way to Peace in South Sudan Resettlement Project
18 March 2020 | UN News
Women who had been displaced by fighting in South Sudan are sowing seeds of peace, with support from the UN mission in the country, UNMISS. They have been given ox ploughs to work the land, as pa...
Women Shouldering the Burden of Climate Crisis Need Action, not Speeches
13 March 2020 | Patricia Scotland, The Guardian
Milikini Failautusi, 30, lives on the Pacific island of Tuvalu. She has become virtually a nomad in her own country after rising tides forced her to leave her ancestral atoll and move to the main isla...
Women Shouldering the Burden of Climate Crisis Need Action, Not Speeches
13 March 2020 | Patricia Scotland
Milikini Failautusi, 30, lives on the Pacific island of Tuvalu. She has become virtually a nomad in her own country after rising tides forced her to leave her ancestral atoll and move to the main isla...
Women Shouldering the Burden of Climate Crisis Need Action, Not Speeches
13 March 2020 | Patricia Scotland
Milikini Failautusi, 30, lives on the Pacific island of Tuvalu. She has become virtually a nomad in her own country after rising tides forced her to leave her ancestral atoll and move to the main isla...
Women Shouldering the Burden of Climate Crisis Need Action, Not Speeches
13 March 2020 | Patricia Scotland
Milikini Failautusi, 30, lives on the Pacific island of Tuvalu. She has become virtually a nomad in her own country after rising tides forced her to leave her ancestral atoll and move to the main isla...