Female Bylines

« Looking Away from Beauty | Main | What if John Edwards Were an African? »

August 19, 2008

Escaping the Poverty Trap

by Mercedes Sayagues, Inter Press Service, Italy - What do they have in common -- the landless widow with a deaf son in Bangladesh, the 12-year-old miner in Kyrgyzstan, the Ugandan farming couple with 12 children and the South African domestic worker who loses her home when her husband dies and her job when she breaks a leg? They, and their children, are trapped in chronic poverty, even as their countries show economic growth.

Leave a comment

BYLINE PORTAL

Children Under the Sun

by Rupi Mangat, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Not many people would give a street kid banging an empty drum a second glance. But...

To Turn the Tide on Piracy in Somalia, Bring Justice to its Fisheries

by Katie Stuhldreher, Christian Science Monitor, USA - Piracy will not be eradicated from the region until Somalia becomes a stable, functioning state with a...

Healing & Redefining Our World

by Wahleah Johns, Melinda Yazzie, Lilian Hill, Black Mesa Water Coalition, USA - "Our way of life is at jeopardy. The majority of the people...

Closing Gitmo Is Just the Beginning

by Suzanne Nossel, Guardian, UK - During his first television interview after winning the White House, president-elect Barack Obama reiterated his long-standing promise to shut...

Muslim Woman Defies Male Dominance

by Farah El Alfy, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Amal Soliman, a 32-year-old Egyptian woman, has endured intimidation and ridicule in the year since she applied...