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Gender Equality
Disrimination against women and girls - including gender-based violence, economic discrimination, reproductive health inequities, and harmful traditional practices - remains the most pervasive and persistent form of inequality. Women and girls bear enormous hardship during and after humanitarian emergencies, especially armed conflicts.
Gender equality and women's empowerment are human rights that lie at the heart of development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
Despite the progress that has been made, six out of ten of world's poorest people are still women and girls, less than 16 percent of the world's parliamentarians are women, two thirds of all children shut outside the school gates are girls and, both in times of armed conflict and behind closed doors at home, women are still systematically subjected to violence.
That is why MedCorp Provides gender equality and women's empowerment in all main areas of work:
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We are a U.S. based organization concerned about the welfare of the poor through-out the whole world.
Our Hospital in Jigjiga, Ethiopia