TIME: This Freshman Congresswoman Wants to Restore U.S. Funding to U.N. Reproductive-Health Agency “When Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan first came to Washington, D.C. nine months ago, the Air Force veteran knew she wanted to carve out a policy niche in promoting women’s rights both domestically and internationally. On Thursday, she…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Keep girls in schools to end hunger and poverty, Sachs tells governments “Keeping girls in schools in Africa is key to lowering the fast-growing continent’s high fertility rates and ultimately ending hunger and poverty, U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs said Wednesday. … Africa currently has the world’s highest…

U.N. Women: International Day of the Girl Child In this statement, U.N. Women recognizes the International Day of the Girl Child, held annually on October 11. “For this year’s International Day of the Girl, we’re coming together under the theme ‘GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable,’ to celebrate all of the achievements…

HuffPost: British Aid Is Transforming Girls’ Lives Across The World. But There’s More We Can Do Alok Sharma, secretary of state for international development of the United Kingdom and Conservative MP for Reading West “…[D]espite the progress we are making, millions of girls around the world are still being left…

Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: To Achieve Universal Health Care, Invest in Nurses and Midwives Sydnee Logan, social media and digital content coordinator at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and Ann LoLordo, senior director of global engagement and communications at Jhpiego, discuss the roles…

Associated Press: Report reveals widespread abuse of women during childbirth “A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated, or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide. The study published…

New York Times: World Leaders Once Made Miracles, and Can Again Nicholas Kristof, columnist for the New York Times “…We live in an age of miracles when a group of public health nerds, backed by world leaders and front-line health workers, can save lives by the million. … Yet today…

ABC: Predicting — and preventing — future pandemics (Swan/Bullen, 10/7). AFP: Edible sensor helps TB patients take their meds: study (10/4). Al Jazeera: WHO to hold Philippines summit after polio outbreak (Alindoga, 10/7). Bloomberg: Female Leadership in Global Health (10/4). CNN: Half of India couldn’t access a toilet 5 years…

Project Syndicate: Closing the Opportunity Gap in the Sahel Annette Dixon, vice president of Human Development at the World Bank Group, and Hafez Ghanem, vice president of the World Bank for Africa “…The countries of the Sahel rank among the world’s lowest on the Human Capital Index, which quantifies the…

GOV.UK: U.K. will step up efforts to end preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies and children in the developing world by 2030 “A commitment has been made to prioritize ending preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies, and children in the developing world by 2030. To achieve this, U.K. aid will…