Category: Women

Christy Turlington Burns Talks Women’s Empowerment with Feed the Future – YouTube

Feed the Future caught up with maternal health advocate and model Christy Turlington Burns at the recent launch of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York. Christy is founder of Every Mother Counts. She attended the Commission as part of the U.S. delegation. We asked for her thoughts on the importance of advancing opportunities for women and girls worldwide. A transcript is available at feedthefuture.gov/media-gallery.

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Advancing Legal Protection for Women in Tajikistan | IREX – Civil Society, Education and Media Development

Mufara Hamidova provides legal assistance to women in Tajikistan on issues ranging from domestic violence to early marriage. As a manager at the League of Women Lawyers of Tajikistan, she addresses domestic issues through litigation and mediation and also uses media and trainings to inform community groups about the legal status of young girls getting married and the legal and psychological consequences of early marriage. For more on early marriage in Tajikistan, click here.

As a 2011 LEAD fellow, she is studying at the University of Missouri-Kansas City this year and is accompanied by her husband and three-year-old son. Recently Mufara answered IREX’s questions about her legal work assisting women in Tajikistan and how she juggles a demanding legal career, family responsibilities, and coursework for a graduate degree in the US.

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Conflict in Tajikistan – not really about radical Islam | openDemocracy

For almost a month, an armed conflict has been raging in the mountains of the Kamarob gorge between the forces of the Government of Tajikistan and local ‘mujohids’. This is the most serious political violence in Tajikistan for ten years. Here, in the first of a two-part article, Sophie Roche and John Heathershaw draw on ethnographic research and contacts with residents of the region to explain the legacy of the civil war and the social and political contexts of this largely unreported conflict.

via Conflict in Tajikistan – not really about radical Islam | openDemocracy.

Pamiri women and the melting glaciers of Tajikistan – YouTube

The glaciers of the Pamir mountains, which provide over 50% of Central Asia’s water resources, are rapidly melting at a rate similar to Greenland’s continental glacier. Three generations of of Pamiri women share the impacts of the melt and decreasing water levels.

via Pamiri women and the melting glaciers of Tajikistan – YouTube.

Tajikistan: Poverty Encourages Early Marriages | EurasiaNet.org

Tajikistan’s widespread poverty is a major cause of early marriage in the country, according to a recent report by the Eurasia Foundation. In rural families, boys become the main breadwinners and girls are often considered financial burdens.

“Some parents feel that their daughters can be better supported by the husband’s family, and marrying them off [early] is a way to conserve their own limited resources,” Azita Ranjbar, the author of the report, told EurasiaNet.org.

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