<![CDATA[Jezebel: action aid]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: action aid]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/actionaid http://jezebel.com/tag/actionaid <![CDATA[Brussels Shouts]]>

[Brussels, October 29. Image via Getty]

ActionAid activists displays a banner prior to a European Union summit near the European Council headquarters on October 29, 2009 in Brussels. Europe's leaders grapple with deadlock on how to fight global warming and the legacy of recession, all the while jockeying for control of arguably the biggest appointment in Brussels' history. AFP PHOTO / GEORGES GOBET (Photo credit should read GEORGES GOBET/AFP/Getty Images)
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5393821&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Planet In Peril]]> Charity network ActionAid has published a report stating that women and girls are more likely to be poor, hungry, illiterate or sick than boys and men. In South Asia, while the economy grows, women are getting a shrinking share of the income. African women accounted for 75% of all young people living with HIV/AIDS. Also in Africa, the focus on primary education is hampered because women and children spend 40 billion hours collecting water each year. The report adds: "The disproportionate impact of poverty on girls is not an accident, but the result of systematic discrimination." [Guardian]

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