Sentences with phrase «rural women by»

She makes clear the political and personal reasons that compelled her, in 1977, to establish the Green Belt Movement, which spread from Kenya across Africa and which helps restore indigenous forests while assisting rural women by paying them to plant trees in their villages.

In Ghana, the day will be commemorated under the adapted theme «Economic empowerment of rural women: A tool for sustainable development in a changing world of work,» which according to the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Afisah Djaba, was chosen to help rural women and girls to achieve their ambitions and also challenge the negative traditional and socio - cultural practices, discrimination and difficulties that confront the rural woman by changing the world of work for all women in Ghana.

Not exact matches

-- By Shaleena Chanrai, co-founder and art director of Bella Kinesis, a sportswear brand that helps fund business education for women in rural India through customer purchases.

He is also a Director of Cameco, one of the world's largest uranium producers and Chairman of the charitable organization Educating Girls of Rural China Foundation, which works to transform the lives of women and communities in rural areas of western China by providing access to educaRural China Foundation, which works to transform the lives of women and communities in rural areas of western China by providing access to educarural areas of western China by providing access to education.

A woman walks by a branch of Guangzhou Rural Commercial Bank in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, October 1, 2012.

Bonnie also pointed to a 1975 case in which a rural Virginia woman killed her own aunt - the person who had raised and loved her - because she believed her aunt had been possessed by the devil.

Some such experiences and actions can be seen in the successful action to re-conquer the earth by the farmers in Brazil or Madagascar, the initiatives for education and rural training of women in Senegal or in the exemplary battles of the South - Korean workers who demonstrated the possibility of constituting efficient inter-professional trade union organisations in the so - called emerging countries.

Her story (whose theme, by the way, is «the lot of single women in rural Palestine») may seem to have a happy ending, but don't be fooled, girls; The Book of Ruth is actually «a pernicious, exploitative tract,» reinforcing the idea that «a woman's happiness and fulfillment require men, that is, a husband and sons.»

While driving through a rural Italian village, Pope Francis shocked locals standing on the side of the road, by stopping his motorcade to meet a young disabled woman.

The silk is taken and handspun, hand tied and then hand dyed by women's co-operatives in rural India.

In a joint statement for the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) by WABA, ILCA and ABM, the organizations emphasize that breastfeeding and skilled lactation support can empower rural women and improve health outcWomen (CSW62) by WABA, ILCA and ABM, the organizations emphasize that breastfeeding and skilled lactation support can empower rural women and improve health outcwomen and improve health outcomes.

for the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) by WABA, ILCA and ABM, the organizations emphasize that breastfeeding and skilled lactation support can empower rural women and improve health outcWomen (CSW62) by WABA, ILCA and ABM, the organizations emphasize that breastfeeding and skilled lactation support can empower rural women and improve health outcwomen and improve health outcomes.

The Draft Agreed Conclusions prepared by the CSW62 Bureau highlights importance of implementing economic and social policies for the empowerment of rural women and girls.

Candidates for seats on the Palatine, Inverness and Salt Creek Rural Park Districts boards outlined their positions and fielded questions Wednesday at a forum conducted by the Palatine Area League of Women Voters in Palatine.

Additionally, BabyCenter is currently participating in a number of maternal health projects around the globe including text4baby in the United States, collaboration with the Grameen Foundation in rural Ghana, and a new mobile program in India in an effort to reach underserved women and empower them to take control over their own health by implementing positive behavior changes.

The inequity experienced by pregnant women living in rural and remote locations forced to travel long distances to access maternity care, is raised as a failure of government to provide essential services to these communities [31 — 33] placing lives at risk.

They are not made on a machine but are actually hand - knit by women, providing jobs and income for the indigenous women in rural Bolivia as an extra thing as they go about their lives.

My report finds that whilst the Constitution has been referred to in only a limited fashion in cases involving the protection and enhancement of women's rights, notable exceptions include violence against women resulting from religious edicts: «In response to a spate of violence directed at young rural women as part of their sentencing by fatwa... the Supreme Court declared such sentences unconstitutional in 2001.»

With his paternal approach, Fraga had broad appeal, as evidenced by a national media broadcast featuring priests in rural areas asking the public to vote for «Catholic Fraga» during his first campaign and women working at a Vigo brothel distributing his leaflets in clubs.

«To support more opportunities for the girl child, especially those in the rural areas and those who were not opportune to go to school, we are planning on setting up six Women Development Centres to make it easier for them to access projects and programmes set up by government to better their living conditions», she said.

The highest and lowest prevalence of bribery by geographical location and sex showed that 39.5 per cent of the people are urban males while 24.9 per cent are rural women.

The Minister said this year's celebration seeks to provide a platform to take stock of contribution, achievements and success chalked by rural and urban women and also deliberate on their struggles and challenges in gender equality and women's empowerment.

Governments could substantially reduce the tragic death toll of infants and mothers by making postnatal care services more accessible — especially to impoverished and poorly educated women in rural areas, according to a study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization today.

«In our analysis, we found most rural employers are treating women's lactation needs in the workplace on a case - by - case basis,» said Wilson Majee, assistant professor of health sciences in the MU School of Health Professions.

People living in rural areas are at no greater risk of dying from heart disease than their urban counterparts, according to a new study by researchers at Women's College Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES).

Their research was funded in part by the Women and Giving Foundation at the SDSU Foundation and in part by the Rural Health Research Center at SDSU.

More than 30 small business owners in rural Texas were interviewed, among them a young woman who borrowed from her father to open a specialty cake business after being discouraged by a bank; and an elderly woman who built a restaurant and banquet hall, investing her own money when banks» terms were too difficult and interest rates too high, Mencken said.

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.

by Barbara Kingsolver Drama: A smart but poorly educated woman in rural Tennessee has her life transformed when scientists come to town.

Braids are commonly preferred by women in both rural and urban India.

So, my Mom, being a wonderfully endless source of reading material, recently gave me an article from the Canadian History Magazine, written by Jessica Knapp, which discussed an innovative fashion trend for rural Canadian women during the Great Depression.

Through the emergence of the US ready - to - wear market, designers like Chanel with their shift dress or the mail - order catalogs sent to rural farms by Sears allowed women to purchase clothing faster and at a cheaper price.

a new form of bead art, the ndwango, developed by a community of women living and working together in rural KwaZulu - Natal, South Africa.

our khadi fabric is handloomed by women in rural central india.

this «khadi» fabric is woven by women in rural central india.

The feature film adaptation of the acclaimed National Theatre production documents the events that shook Suffolk in 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.

The story is relocated from Russia to rural England and focuses on a young woman, played by 21 - year - old newcomer Florence Pugh, married to a cruel factory owner, who embarks on a passionate affair with a rugged local.

When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by murders of young boys, superstitious locals are quick to apportion blame, with the suspects including the local witch (Florinda Bolkan, A LIZARD IN A WOMAN»S SKIN.)

Contrasting spectacular vistas, blacks are also appropriately deep and dark in certain interior scenes, as when a passed - out Oliver is plucked from a rural road and given soup by a kindly woman during his journey by foot to London.

KIM LONGINOTTO By Nicolas Rapold In Pink Saris, her portrait of a women's rights activist in rural India, this English filmmaker continues to represent the underrepresented

The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy — supported by the Government of the People's Republic of China and dedicated to literacy work benefitting rural populations and out - of - school youth, particularly girls and women — is awarded to laureates in South Africa, India, and Senegal: The South African Department of Basic Education for its Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign; the Jan Shikshan Sansthan organization in Kerala, India, for its programme, Vocational Skill Development for Sustainable Development, and the Directorate of Literacy and National Languages in Senegal for its National Education Programme for Illiterate Youth and Adults through ICTs.

Further, why is it that over 75 % of those employed by schools across the country are female, yet only 18 % of superintenents across the country are female; and in most cases, those women superintendents are in charge of small rural K - 8 districts.

Inspired by the true story of his own great - aunt, he explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early - twentieth - century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central «uses» for a woman in that time and place - namely, sex and marriage.

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

But the real reason there are probably more underlined sentences in my copy of Winterson's memoir than not is her radical candor concerning the psychological heritage of her adoption in 1960 by a miserable, repressive Pentecostal woman in rural northern England.

PALMDALE, Calif. - A woman was very concerned after she saw a man exercising his two large dogs by running them alongside his moving car on a rural road in California.

Property Location Located in Ubud, The Samara is in a rural location, minutes from Seniwati Gallery of Art by Women, and close to Pura Taman Saraswati.

Indeed, in our time of instant communication, «problems» are rapidly formulated to rationalize the bad conscience of those with power: thus the problem posed by Americans in Vietnam and Cambodia is referred to by Americans as «the East Asian Problem,» whereas East Asians may view it, more realistically, as «the American Problem»; the so - called Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.»

The repurposing, by black rural women, of scraps of worn work clothes and other textile remnants into functional bedcovers became expressive, formally sophisticated testaments of the African American struggle.

These womb - like structures allude to sub-Saharan grass huts and rural meeting places, often built by women.