A lack of power and disregard for their rights puts women in Yemen at particular risk from HIV – but the obstacles are slowly being overcome, writes Progressio development worker Joseph Aloo
Do women…
Progressio, 18th March 2011
A street scene from a demonstration in Al Mansoor district in Aden on 24 February. Here Krishna Karkee, a Progressio development worker in Yemen, writes about her experience of the recent unrest in…
Progressio, 3rd March 2011
How do the impacts of climate change affect women? Cindy Krose, a Development Worker at CEPES, a Progressio partner in Peru, explores the issue.
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Progressio, 3rd March 2011
Cindy Krose writes from Huancavelica, Peru:
For a video on this topic by Cindy in Huancavelicas, click here.
Women in the rural district of Huancavelica prepare the food for the family, do the…
Progressio, 25th February 2011
From the ground in Yemen, Progressio development worker Prachanda Man Shrestha explains why he feels his work is all the more important given recent turmoil.
Before now, I’ve only ever heard gun…
Progressio, 24th February 2011
Having returned and digested the climate change negotiations (COP16) held in December in Cancún, Mexico, Maggie Von Vogt is back at UNES (Unidad Ecológica Salvadoreña), and…
maggievonvogt, 27th January 2011
Mélida Tróchez, who has rebuilt her house four times following severe floods in Honduras, tells Progressio development worker Nuria Zayas her story of perseverance against the odds.
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Progressio, 27th January 2011
This picture of a tent city outside Port-au-Prince in Haiti strangely reminds me of my holiday last summer, writes Progressio staff member Esther Trewinnard. We had a similar tent. But, after…
Progressio, 7th January 2011
In Timor-Leste just before Christmas, there was a Christmas party with a difference. More than 40 people living with HIV celebrated life, and remembered loved ones, at a party held by Estrela+ – a…
Progressio, 23rd December 2010
“If you tell me my wife’s HIV positive, I’ll kill her! And I’m going to kill all of you people who are working at Talowadag, because you are the organisation who are helping people to spread HIV in…
Progressio, 22nd December 2010
