Sentences with phrase «poor rural women»

This activity report looks at the benefits of biogas including providing poor rural women and men in developing countries with clean and renewable energy all year round.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) will promote greater economic, social, legal, and political empowerment of poor rural women in Nepal, particularly those from ethnic minorities and lower castes, through a $ 10 million loan approved today, states a press release issued here today.

«Poor rural women in developing countries are critical to the survival of their families.

We must build on the global consensus around the Sustainable development goals, particularly on gender and on Land degradation neutrality to turn dreams into reality for poor rural women.

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Rural women have poor access to health care.

Although affluent and urban women began having their babies in hospitals, however, medically underserved populations, such as rural women with limited access to hospitals and poor women who couldn't afford to give birth in the hospitals, continued to give birth at home.

Under his plan, two - thirds of that money would be spent on the purchase and equipment of mobile mammography vehicles that could make it easier for women in poor and rural communities to receive breast cancer exams.

Two - thirds of the $ 91 million was to be spent on the purchase and equipping of mobile mammography vehicles that could make it easier for women in poor and rural communities to receive breast cancer exams.

The decision, delivered by Justice Stephen Breyer, said that HB2 would place an «undue burden» on women's constitutional right to seek an abortion, particularly for those who are poor, disadvantaged, or living in rural areas.

Woman surviving in rural Mississippi too poor to hook up donated trailer.

Preer starred as Sylvia Landry, an African - American woman who travels north in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor black children.

Synopsis: Biography on Tamil Nadu activist Arunachalam Muruganantham, whose mission was to provide sanitary napkin's to poor women of rural areas.

Among the examples it uses to refute those myths are that in 1990, white women had more than half of all the babies born to unmarried women; that in 1992, 56 percent of all poor children lived in suburbs or rural areas; and that families on welfare have on average...

In working with these non-profits, I learned that only 5 % of Guatemala's rural poor women use contraception.

Primacy of the interests and voices of poor and marginalised rural people with emphasis on women

Why is she so effective in reaching out to poor and illiterate rural women through the Green Belt Movement [pp. 135 — 38]?

Camfed invests in girls and women in the poorest rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, where girls face acute disadvantage, and where their empowerment is now transforming communities.

Through our global network of local writers, we are continuing our award - winning coverage of global and local environmental challenges, with a focus on the people for whom the ecosphere matters in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development in order to survive; poor women and children, who are the most vulnerable in natural disasters.Sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and The World Bank (WB), IPS also maintains the award - winning Tierramérica, a specialised information service on environment and development.

Rural women have to overcome poverty, unemployment, gender discrimination, poor access to resources, illiteracy, and lack of empowerment on how to engage in leadership.

The proportion of adolescent women in need who are not using modern contraceptive methods is higher in Asia (69 %) and Africa (68 %) than in Latin America and the Caribbean (36 %).10 In all regions, unmet need is higher among adolescent women wanting to avoid pregnancy who live in rural areas and who live in poorer households.