Examining Zimbabwe’s Domestic Violence Issue through a socioecological lense Last week I shared with you the situation of domestic violence in Nigeria, and how it is one of the countries in Africa with the worst case of Domestic Violence. This week I looked at Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe caught my eye in particular not necessarily because of [...]
Hope in “one of the 5 worst places in the world for women?”
I’ve decided to narrow my blog posts to focus on sexual violence against Somali refugee women and girls in internally displaced person (IDP) and refugee camps. To recap about the current situation in Somalia, successive droughts and a famine starting in July 2011 exacerbated violence that has already been occurring in that country for the [...]
Filipinas are NOT for sale!
I hadn’t originally planned on writing a blog about Filipina mail-order brides, but while on the topic of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) I think it is important to write a blog about these women. I would also like to state before I continue this blog that an Anti-Mail Order Bride Law (Republic Act No. 6955) [...]
Free Maternal Health Care for All!: An Ecuador Case Study
The stigmas associated with the female reproductive process are boundless. Past discussions have dealt mainly with discrimination between men and women. For the next few weeks, I’ll progress to discuss a different kind of discrimination and barriers that many women face during pregnancy, labor and delivery while trying to access existing maternal health care in [...]
What is preventing proper HIV education?
As I began researching information for this week’s blog, I again found very troubling statistics about HIV in South African teens. One study showed that, although the total rate of HIV infection in South Africa appears to be stabilizing, the numbers about the teens are not optimistic. Unfortunately, the numbers among teens were not falling [...]
South Asian Migrant Women in the Middle East
“I was not paid for one-and-a-half years, they tried to kill me, then I fled to the embassy,” says a woman. In Olaya Detention Center in Saudi Arabia, migrant women plead to be taken back to their homes in South Asia. One woman describes the “wounds and scars on her hands, neck, and legs. [Her [...]
Curbing a Bloody Rite: Meet the women of Senegal
“Before you would never even dare to discuss this… It was taboo. Now you have thousands of people coming to abandon it.” (4) The practice of female genital cutting (also known as female genital mutilation or female circumcision) is considered a rite of passage for girls in communities that have embraced the practice. [...]
College Rape Prevention Program: The Male Approach
After having many meaningful discussion regarding women’s general health, mental health, adolescence and vulnerability, and sexuality, I plan to continue pursuing the topic of forced rape amongst college women. This is a critical topic, especially this is a college course filled with college men and women. However, in this entry, I also wanted to take [...]
Implicit & Explicit Discrimination of LGBTQ members in an International Context
This week I would like to shed light on actual cases of discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community that live in what are considered “developing” or more conservative areas around the world. Sometimes it is easier to connect to tangible accounts to make the situation more vivid, especially in places where the government [...]
Community Health Centers and Adolescent Health in the Developing World
Tracy’s comment in Wednesday’s class got me thinking about how to get adolescents to community centers. I know that these centers existed in many communities and also that these women’s community centers are being pushed as really effective and sustainable interventions. But how much do adolescents use these centers and for what purpose? In researching [...]
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