| GLOBAL: Children’s rights not yet a reality |
 DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Children’s rights advocates are taking 20 November, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to highlight legal advances, but say when it comes to education, healthcare and protection in conflicts and natural disasters, children are often the first to be deprived of their rights.
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GLOBAL: Fortified flour and chewing gum - new approaches to malnutrition |  NAIROBI, 9 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Some of the most widespread forms of malnutrition can best be reduced by delivering micronutrients and fortifying food in new, cost-effective ways, in combination with community outreach work, experts have said.
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GLOBAL: Reaching the pneumonia "tipping point" |  DAKAR, 2 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Health organizations have joined forces to launch the first World Pneumonia Day, urging governments, donors and civil society to act to prevent and treat the world’s leading child killer.
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GLOBAL: Empower women to stem global hunger, say experts |  NAIROBI, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Countries where women's literacy rates and access to education are significantly worse than men's tend to have higher levels of hunger, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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GLOBAL: Put women at core of climate change debate, say activists |  BANGKOK, 13 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Women are being excluded from the debate over climate change, despite being most at risk, and governments should do more to ensure their situations and views are represented, campaigners and experts say.
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YEMEN: New drive to reduce child mortality |  SANAA, 5 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - The government has welcomed a new campaign launched on 5 October by NGO Save the Children to help reduce child mortality in Yemen, which has the highest rate in the Middle East and one of the highest in the world outside Africa.
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LEBANON: Plight of the trafficked domestic worker |  BEIRUT, 30 September 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Abbey was a nurse at a French hospital in Madagascar when a recruitment agency suggested to her boss that she travel to Lebanon for three years to work and learn Arabic so she could better care for the Arab sailors whose ships docked at the Indian Ocean island.
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GLOBAL: Village access to medicines, fewer maternal deaths |  DAKAR, 29 September 2009 (IRIN Global) - Putting medicines for haemorrhage and infection in the hands of community health workers could mean significantly fewer maternal deaths in Africa, according to researchers at University College London.
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In Brief: Training and drugs "key to maternal health" |  NAIROBI, 28 September 2009 (IRIN Global) - When pregnant women in Tanzania choose whether to give birth at home or in a clinic, the attitude of health workers and availability of drugs are more important factors than cost and distance to the clinic, a new study suggests.
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GLOBAL: Great leap forward on free healthcare |  NEW YORK, 24 September 2009 (IRIN Global) - Providing free healthcare to millions of women and children in some of the world’s poorest countries has come a step closer, with the unveiling on 23 September of a US$5.3 billion financing package by British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
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