Full Coverage: Gender
July 2007
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07/31/2007
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have reached a halfway point but little seems to have changed, particularly for women whose lives are most affected by extreme poverty. The MDGs do not deal with the underlying causes for women and girl's poverty which needs to be understood in ways men and women access and control services and resources.
Read moreRelated: [Poverty] [Civil Rights] [Gender] [Governance] [MDGs] Image: Women are most affected ones by extreme poverty
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07/31/2007
MAPUTO, July 30 (IPS) - Over 1,000 Mozambicans, including children, are trafficked to South Africa every year where they are forced into prostitution or to provide free or cheap labour. In response, Mozambique's government last week approved a new law which will make human trafficking a crime punishable with long prison sentences.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [Mozambique] [South Africa] [Labor] [Human Rights] [Gender] [Sexuality] [Justice and Crime] [Law] Image: © Anti-Slavery International
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07/27/2007
South Asia Partnership International (SAPI) is organising the South Asian Regional Conference on Invisible Faces of Violence on Women in Politics: Breaking the Silence, from 18-20 September 2007 at Hotel Soaltee Crown Plaza, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Read moreRelated: [Capacity Building] [Gender] [Politics] [Democracy] [Governance] |
07/27/2007
A special school in central Indian state Madhya Pradesh trains women to become ideal, obedient and submissive wives and daughters-in-law, which has drawn the ire of social activists and women's organisations who feel that men should also be part of the training for a balanced society.
Read moreRelated: [India] [South Asia] [Gender] [Communication] [Knowledge] |
07/26/2007
Aborted female foetuses continue to be unearthed from all over India irrespective of regional differences as recent investigations
Read moredemonstrate from two economically diverse states - Orissa and Maharashtra. Related: [South Asia] [India] [Children] [Human Rights] [Gender] [Governance] Image: Why discriminate girls. © James Hawkins / Oxfam Great Britain
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07/25/2007
Gagandeep Kaur, a freelance journalist reports on a first of its kind business school - Mann Deshi Udyogini - which has been formed by a rural women's cooperative bank in association with the HSBC Bank. The business school aims to empower rural women on managing small enterprises.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [India] [Capacity Building] [Business] [Gender] [Knowledge] Image: Empowering women...
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07/24/2007
Dr. Vibhuti Patel reviews Tulsi Patel’s Sex-selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies. This collection of essays unravels the reasons for the depleting child sex ratio in India, with focus on ways in which new reproductive technologies, such as the ultrasound, are misused at the family, community and state levels.
Read moreRelated: [India] [South Asia] [Children] [Health] [Gender] [Governance] Image: Girl child- Deserves to join the world © Satomi Kato
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07/23/2007
Naisen pyrkiminen politiikkaan aiheuttaa Sierra Leonessa ihmetystä ja jotkut tuomitsevat sen. Monen naisehdokkaan tie katkeaakin jo esivaaleissa puolueen tuen puuttumiseen. Myös vaalitavan muutos tulee vaikeuttamaan naisten pääsyä parlamenttiin.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [Sierra Leone] [Gender] [Politics] Image: .
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07/20/2007
A book titled Paribarik Hinsha Protirodh Aain 2005 (Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005) written by eminent writers will be released by Justice Shyamal Sen on 23 July, 2007 in Kolkata. The book release will be followed by a seminar Paribarik Hinsha Protirodh Aain, 2005 Ebong Amader Kartabya'.
Read moreRelated: [India] [South Asia] [Human Rights] [Gender] [Governance] [Justice and Crime] Image: Stop domestic violence © Penny Tweedie/Panos
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07/19/2007
DAR ES SALAAM, Jul 19 (IPS) - "I began walking when I felt contractions. I delivered on the roadside five kilometres from the hospital," says the 22-year-old Veronica Joseph.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [Africa] [Tanzania ] [Health] [Infant Mortality] [Gender] [MDGs] |
07/19/2007
Professor Vibhuti Patel reviews Countering Gender Violence: Initiatives towards Collective Action in Rajasthan, authored by Kanchan Mathur. The volume focuses on interventions, activism and legal mechanisms that combat violence against women (VAW) in India, particularly in Rajasthan. The author has made an excellent attempt to link VAW with development, health and human rights issues.
Read moreRelated: [Human Rights] [Gender] [Activism] [Governance] |
07/19/2007
Meski tak terjaring sebagai komisioner Komnas HAM, Yulianus Rettoblaud tetap fenomenal. Dialah waria pertama di Indonesia yang ‘dinominasikan’ untuk memperebutkan jabatan prestisius di sebuah komisi negara.
Read moreRelated: [Indonesia] [Health] [HIV/AIDS] [Disease/treatment] [Human Rights] [Civil Rights] [Gender] [Sexuality] [Social Exclusion] |
07/17/2007
The Indian Academy of Social Sciences announces the 31st session of the Indian Social Science Congress, to be hosted by SNDT Women's University and Ambedkar Institute of Social and Economic Change between December 27 and 31, 2007 at Mumbai. Its focal theme is Peoples' Struggles And Movements For Equitable Society.
Read moreRelated: [India] [South Asia] [Civil Rights] [Gender] [Ethics & Value Systems] [Governance] |
07/17/2007
In many countries, discrimination against girls begins at birth, or even before they are born. Plan's recent report - 'Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007' - reveals huge global complacency about the rights of girls. Join Plan's campaign to break this cycle of inequity and maltreatment.
Read moreRelated: [Human Rights] [Gender] [Information & Media] [Governance] Image: Lets give their deserving rights of being the sweetest creation of the god
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07/16/2007
BRIDGE, part of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK, has developed a range of Cutting Edge packs examining gender and development issues. In this article, AWID reviews their recent Cutting Edge pack "Gender and Indicators".
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [India] [Development] [Human Rights] [Gender] [Civil Society] Image: Facilitating effective and transformative approaches for improving the lives of women and girls worldwide. © Survival International
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07/13/2007
Women are branded as witches in villages across India, often in a move to gain access to property, land or seek revenge. The desert state of Rajasthan is considering an Anti Witchcraft Bill after a recent spurt of cases where women were subjected to violence.
Read moreRelated: [India] [South Asia] [Justice and Crime] [Law] [Land] [Gender] [Civil Society] Image: A dire need for Anti Witchcraft Bill
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07/13/2007
Indus Women Leaders (IWL) will hold their 5th Annual Leadership Summit on 13 October at San Francisco, USA, on “Globalization: Women, Wealth and Well-being”. The IWL is a South Asian women’s group that supports and mentors fellow sisters unleash their leadership potential.
Read moreRelated: [Capacity Building] [Human Rights] [Gender] [Governance] |
07/12/2007
JOHANNESBURG, Jul 11 (IPS) - What is a common factor in ensuring that women do not marry too young, do not have more children than they can cope with, do not die giving birth -- and contract HIV in smaller numbers? Men.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [Africa] [Asia and the Pacific] [Europe] [Latin America and the Caribbean] [Northern America] [Development] [Population] [Gender] [MDGs] |
07/10/2007
More than 2,000 women leaders and many of the world's leading AIDS experts were in Nairobi last week for an international conference to address the unique and devastating impact HIV and AIDS has on the over 17 million women and girls living with the disease.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Kenya] [HIV/AIDS] [Gender] [Sexuality] [Communication] [Knowledge] [Activism] |
07/05/2007
Natural disasters have time and again proved the vulnerability of poor women, children, the elderly and disabled. Mats Eriksson, Manjari Mehta and Kesang Renchen of the Kathmandu based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) write on the need to integrate local communities in disaster preparedness planning in the Himalayan region.
Read moreRelated: [Nepal] [India] [South Asia] [Emergency Relief] [Shelter & Housing] [Social Exclusion] [Gender] [Governance] Image: Survivors after the earthquake
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