Liz Ford
Liz Ford is deputy editor of the Guardian's Global development website. She leads on women's rights and gender equality issues. She was previously editor of the Guardian's Katine website, and before that worked on the Guardian's education desk. Follow Liz on Twitter
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Funds to be channeled towards improving opportunities for marginalised girls as UK backs global push for universal primary and secondary education by 2030
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Programme entitled Rockets and Space uses games to engage young men and women as part of drive to promote health and reduce teenage pregnancy
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Pilot in 72 communities shows that building girls’ skills and knowledge reduces number of children married off
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In parts of rural western Nepal, women are forced to live in cowsheds during their periods and immediately after childbirth in a practice known as Chhaupadi
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Nazra for Feminist Studies head receives widespread support over claims NGO is illegal as crackdown on Egyptian civil society is condemned
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Final negotiations at Commission on the Status of Women punctuated by claims some governments are trying to dilute finance for equality and sexual pledges
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National Democratic Institute’s #NotTheCost campaign calls for indicators on prevalence of threats and abuse, and support for those affected
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A is for Aids, B is for bloodshed: a much broader range of development issues could be tackled if reducing illiteracy was addressed first, says a new campaign
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Women in north-east Nigeria are viewed with suspicion when they return home after leaving Boko Haram, and do not receive adequate support, finds new report
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Syrian women’s organisations demand meaningful role in peace talks and proper respect as authority figures in effort to stop the radicalisation of their children
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President Ernest Bai Koroma under pressure from rights groups to follow parliament’s lead by signing bill, despite protests from religious leaders
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Jacqueline Jessica de Oliveira, a mother from the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, the centre of the country’s Zika outbreak, was three months pregnant with twins when she contracted the virus
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2015 was the year the sustainable development goals were finally approved. We also reported on conflicts, refugees and rats, and revisited eight children in developing countries
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We want to know which books on development, foreign affairs and global politics you enjoyed reading this year
Topics
- Women
- Health
- Gender
- Sustainable development goals
- Maternal health
- Reproductive rights (developing countries)
- South and Central Asia
- Contraception and family planning
- United Nations
- Nepal
- Americas
- Sex education
- Berta Cáceres
- Equality
- Maternal mortality
- Pregnancy
- Conflict and development
- Abortion
- inequality
- Population
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