Alison

=Alison=

=Intro:= In America, women have all of the rights that they need and continue to try and get more. While women in the USA are trying to get abortion legal, women in Tiebet are trying to get rights to save their female children from getting raped. There is a huge divide between the industrialized world and the unindustrialized one.

=Women and Poverty go Hand and Hand= In these third world countries there are a number of effects and causes of the lack of womens rights. The first is poverty. Women's poverty, specifically in Africa, can be attributed to the corrupted government, lack of education, lack of resources, etc. But poverty is both an effect and a cause of these problems. Women in these places have stated that what they need is health care that will stick and education. But how can we do this?

=Solutions= - Providing Women Education - Health Care - Providing Womens Rights - Job Opportunities - Contraceptives

=Reasons why these Solutions aren't in action= The fact that most of these women are living in a corrupt government with a failing economy is a huge starting foundation. Until these governments start to rehabilitate, if they ever do, things should get better. But why should we wait? Shouldn't America help them, I mean we have plenty of contraceptives. Well, the Bush Administration has a very strict abstinent policy, so they feel that giving these contraceptives will encourage more sexual activities.

=Women For Women International= http://www.womenforwomen.org/?gclid=CLTmmOLY5JICFQG5PAodaCEqfA Goals: To take women that have been effected by a crisis and help rehabilitate them. - some of these women are from the Congo and others are from Afghanistan Where: Bosnia, Afghanistan, Columbia, Iraq, Nigeria, Sudan, and Rwanda Who: Here are videos of women survivors http://www.womenforwomen.org/watch.htm

=Donations= https://secure.entango.com/donate/E5ibVyNjRpV?wfw=WebGenSP What to Do: On this site people can sponsor a women and pay $27 a month - these are women that have lost everything and are starting at ground 0

=Millennium Goals= http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/# http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/mdg2007.pdf Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Their solution is to provide an equal education and trying to get their rights upheld because women may //technically// have their rights, but if their rights are violated, who is going to stand up for them?

Goals 1, 2, 5, and 6 are all potential solutions and would all go to help reduce women's poverty and increase their rights.

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Goal 5: Improve maternal health Goal 6: Combat malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as other diseases

There are minimal improvements, but it does not seem that these goals will be reached by 2015.

=Stories= http://www.womenforwomen.org/mothersday2008/ Sudanese mothers