According to a multi-country study conducted by WHO, rural women report more experiences of physical abuse than urban women (Figure 7). However, the data from the study show no clear pattern as to ...

Rural women are active agents of economic and social change and environmental protection who are, in many ways and to various degrees, constrained in their roles as farmers, producers, investors ...

Women in Niger have been the most impacted by terrorist attacks in the country and now they donate money and goods to strengthen the anti-colonial fight in the countryWomen have always been at the ...

"Young, rural men migrate to urban centres more than women," says Mr Stloukal ... less than male holders in virtually every country where data is available. "Evidence shows that land owning ...

According to a 2022 Oxfam study, only 13 percent of rural women in the country own land. This lack of access to land and resources limits women's ability to invest in farming and start their own ...

Six months later, she said it seems clear to her that the healthcare needs of rural young women like her are largely ... But in Oregon and elsewhere in the country, progressive lawmakers' attempts ...

she said it seems clear to her that the health care needs of rural young women like her are largely ignored. For McCoy and others, figuring out how to obtain adequate care to safely have a baby in ...

Advocates say domestic violence is increasing in rural Ontario but a lack of adequate transportation and a housing crisis is putting the lives of more women at risk. Multiple rural shelters ...