It would be wrong to paint the developing world as the repository of all human misery, very wrong. Progress is being made. In the past four decades life expectancy has increased by some 20 years, while the infant mortality rate has fallen by more than half. Writes-Concern Chief Executive David Begg.
As Begg states aid is making progress and it is centred in the changing role of women in these developing societies. In Ireland gender equality is taken for granted but this is not the case in the developing world.
In the poverty stricken country of Azerbaijan females are treated as second class citizens. Efforts to prevent this are being made by the International Rescue Committee though aid. They train women as community health outreach workers, focusing on the issues such as basi
Removing barriers to women’s equality will release a massive, under-valued stock of human potential, with benefits for all. There is now little remaining doubt that discrimination against women and poverty go hand in hand.
c first aid, reproductive health, pre and post-natal care, nutrition, hygiene, and immunizations. This is giving the women the opportunity to put back into their country what they receive from others.
It is often said that the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. Women of the developing world have the right to this statement and so deserve legal protection. Maria Minna Canada’s Minister for international cooperation contributed $46000 on behalf of the Canadian International Development agency to a legal aid project that concentrates