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70 per cent of the world's poor are women. The majority of the 1.5 billion people living on $1 a day or less are women.

The young adult novel, Push has been adapted into the movie, Precious Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and will be released in movie theaters in November, 2009.

International Women's Day is a worldwide celebration of women's rights and recognition of its importance in our global community.

Students, faculty and friends of Grand Valley State University outside Grand Rapids, Michigan were presented a new look on life recently: a life lived in poverty.

Climate change policies must consider gender issues and women's involvement for the advancement of world development.

The Maya Centre in North Islington, UK, celebrating its 25th birthday this year, has been nominated for a national award for their work in mental health.

Margaret Louise Higgins saw women dying every day because of childbearing, poverty and ignorance, and decided that she would do something to help these unfortunate women.

More than 30 years after the feminist movement took hold in North America, women continue to battle for pay equality in the workplace. But the situation is getting worse.

Margaret Sanger was appalled at the conditions facing married women in the late 1800s and early 1900s who were bearing too many children, ruining their health and dying.

Are the freedoms that female human rights activists fought so hard to obtain now being taken for granted?