Category: Gender
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Our perspective on the Global Nutrition Report
Background: Nutrition is a huge and difficult challenge, requiring convergent action on many fronts: agriculture, health, WASH, education and – most importantly – gender equality and female empowerment. Those championing this action have been held back by the lack of timely data — until now. In the aftermath of the the 2013 Nutrition for Growth summit in…
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Elements of the Post-2015 Political Declaration
The United Nations has invited comment on its draft document on the Elements of the Post-2015 Political Declaration, available at this link. Our president and CEO addressed the intergovernmental interactive session on 19 February 2015: click to download the Statement by Åsa Skogström Feldt. Here is an expanded version of The Hunger Project’s response to the…
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Prepare for Beijing+20
The historic Fourth World Conference for Women in 1995 created a 12-point Platform for Action that has been the basis for worldwide activism ever since, to ensure that women are full and equal partners in development. The Hunger Project had a large delegation at both the Third World Conference in Nairobi in 1985 and in…
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Launch of I Am Malala: A Resource Guide for Educators, with Ziauddin Yousafzai
On November 13, 2014, the George Washington University’s Global Women’s Institute launched I Am Malala: A Resource Guide for Educators in Washington, DC. The event included keynote speaker Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai and a co-founder and chairperson of the Malala Fund. Malala and her father are Pakistani activists for girls’…