Article Source: CS Monitor

Pakistan's low-income families can buy inexpensive health-care insurance through his Nava Jeevan (New Life) program.

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Article Source: CNN

Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egyptians proudly streamed to the polls Saturday to vote on proposed constitutional amendments, the first democratic initiative after the fall of Hosni Mubarak's regime. An estimated 45 million Egyptians are eligible to vote in what is widely viewed as the country's first free election in decades, and the poll would set the stage for parliamentary and presidential elections later this year.

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Article Source: InterPress Service

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28, 2011 (IPS) - Picture a mother, hunching over a field with a Medieval-style hoe in hand, spending day after day tilling the soil under a beating hot sun - only to retire home to care for her family without electricity or running water.

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Article Source: The NY Times

There is another source of Tunisian wisdom that may hold inspiration for at least half the populations across North Africa and the Middle East: a long tradition of women’s rights that goes well beyond anything else in the region.

Women have been more visible than ever before in the discontent rippling across the Arab world. As unrest spreads to places like Iran, where women can still be stoned to death for adultery, and Bahrain, just across the bridge from Saudi Arabia, where they are still not allowed to drive, let alone vote, the female factor in this new Arab dawn may yet prove to be one of the most powerful and fundamental ones in reshaping the region.

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