ILD Blog

It’s difficult not to be shaken by the story of those we now call the Central Park Five, of the injustice of being accused of a crime you didn’t commit, of what led to it and of what compounded it. And yet in that story there is good in an unexpected place. It comes through…

Info ladies are women trained to deliver internet connection on bicycles. They go to Bangladesh’s rural areas with a computer, a printer, a camera and offer their services. It can be Skyping with a husband who works abroad, chatting with friends on Facebook, filling out a school application online. Some of their services cost a…

The new report State of World Population issued by the UN Population Fund points out that 222 million women in developing countries do not have the kind of family planning they need. The report not only states that family planning provides “immeasurable” benefits to women, families and communities, it also says that “family planning has…