Photo credit: Save the Children As you may have learned from this year’s International Women’s Day, gender-based violence is one of the largest and most widespread issues in global public health today. Though it has only recently been considered as a health concern, it deserves global attention alongside HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB. But now that the

Wondering how gender equality and land rights are linked? Women, not men, are primarily responsible for agricultural production and cultivation in the developing world. Without rights to land, women are unable to feed themselves and their families, and provide access to shelter, food, education and medical care as a result. Parakuo Naimodu, mother of 11