Archive for August, 2008
SIDA Conference Stockholm September 12 2008 Sweden’s Minister for Development Cooperation Mrs Gunilla Carlsson will launch Sweden’s Action Plan on Gender-based Violence in Development Co-operation. Speakers include Lesley Abdela, recent GenCap Senior Gender Adviser to UN OCHA Chief Humanitarian Co-ordinator Nepal. See search engines at “lesley abdela”+”post conflict” or Wikipedia. Conference subjects include: • sexual [...]
America’s Second Place Citizens – today, the United States ranks 22nd among the 30 developed nations in its proportion of female federal lawmakers. The Year of the Butt Olympic (Un)Coverage This year marks the 45th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique Lunch with the FT: Gloria Steinem
Bahrain could be forced to pass a family law and other new regulations if the country lifts reservations it has to a UN convention on discrimination against women, say campaigners. Three languages, but one global message: The disappearance and murder of women must stop. Nearly 300 people from around Canada, the United States and Mexico [...]
New book describes how the federal government’s attitude to the trafficking of women for prostitution in Australia began to change just six years ago UN reports calls South Asia hotbed of Child Trafficking Prostitution harms more girls in Georgia USA in one month than are killed in car accidents in a year, say leaders of [...]
Tobago pushes for HIV/AIDS legislation A growing number of countries are passing or seeking to pass HIV-specific legislation that carry criminal punishments. Kitchen parties fuelling HIV infection by stressing a woman’s submission to husband More than 1,500 mostly HIV-positive women staged an unprecedented protest in Swaziland Thursday against a foreign shopping tour by eight of [...]
In India New Opportunities for Women Draw Anger and Abuse From Men The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has pardoned three men who had been found guilty of gang raping a woman in the northern province of Samangan. A long series of rape cases before the ACT Supreme Court Australia had led to acquittals. The problem [...]
‘Bell Bajao’ campaign by NGO urges people to help stop domestic violence in India. The next time you hear your neighbour beating his wife, ring the doorbell and ask for a cup of sugar. This is what Breakthrough, a human rights organisation, is urging people across the country to do when they encounter domestic violence. [...]
Pregnant women who live through wars are more likely to give birth to a child who develops schizophrenia say US researchers in a study linking prenatal stress with the mental illness. An Australian Public Service Commission survey found two out of every three women who took maternity leave from the public service did not receive [...]
Mexico’s Supreme Court upholds capital’s abortion law Health experts and religious leaders in Kenya have rejected a proposed abortion law that will make it easier to terminate pregnancy. The Bill, which has been drafted by the Federation of Women Lawyers (Fida) in conjunction with the Coalition On Violence Against Women (COVAW), seeks to provide for [...]
Many apologies for low number of postings over August. Just work overload, not even a holiday in rain sodden England! To make up for this will be posting article headings and links to source, but it may be that in the intervening period some links will have become obsolete. In the meantime UK and Ireland [...]
When the National Women’s Studies Association formed in 1977, one of its founding members was the then-3-year-old Department of Women’s Studies in McMicken College of Arts and Sciences. Thirty-four years and many shared experiences later, the department served as lead host for one of the largest NWSA conferences to date. About 1,500 feminist scholars and [...]
The results of recent public-opinion surveys conducted by the Canada West Foundation show that we need more women in politics to articulate the increasingly unique female point of view. Is it a coincidence that issues women are most concerned about – health care, the environment, poverty and affordable housing – are exactly the ones to [...]
The federal government needs to do more to address the root causes of violence against aboriginal women, says the Indian Affairs critic for the federal Liberals. “Aboriginal women experience higher rates of violence. If that burden is going to be lifted, the socio-economic conditions and prosperity gap between aboriginals and non-aboriginals will have to be [...]
A bridegroom on a popular Serbian television show brags how he slaps his bride now and then – with her mother’s approval. The bashful bride acknowledges, while looking adoringly at her husband-to-be, that she can be lazy and disobedient and should be hit in the face from time to time. The scene from 48-Hour Wedding, [...]
Participants at an interaction demanded that a law be introduced to control domestic violence against women. Speaking at an interaction organised by Alliance Against Trafficking in Women and Children in Nepal (AATWIN), they said the law against domestic violence was the need of the 21st century. Presenting a paper on ‘Need of Law to Control [...]
Patna High Court has directed the NDA government in Bihar to initiate steps to enforce the Domestic Violence Act, 2005. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha and Justice K K Mandal passed the order after hearing a public interest petition by senior advocate Shruti Singh on Wednesday. Singh had complained that the [...]
(Philippine Daily Inquirer Editor’s Note: Upon the request of readers, we are running the salient features of the proposed Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2008. We asked its principal author in the House of Representatives to present the main points of and misconceptions about the bill*. We hope that this issue will help [...]
There are increasing numbers of single mothers in Kenya. Is it a sign of growing independence of women, or a consequence of poverty and lack of sexual education? Angelina Nandwa, the founder of the Single Mothers’ Association of Kenya (Smak), says both are true. “The phenomenon is universal and pervasive in Kenya. It is not [...]
Larger numbers of pregnant women living with HIV in Swaziland can now access services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus, but activists and health officials say more emphasis should have been placed on quality rather than quantity. “The programmes are going well, but we have a lot to do to ensure quality of services [...]
Africa has a long history of migration. Persistent economic instability, fragile ecosystems, cyclical drought patterns, and civil wars and other types of conflict have propelled people from their countries of birth. Currently, more than 16 million Africans are classified as migrants, and their numbers are increasing. In particular, South Africa has the largest number of [...]
Recent postings- Towards a Future without Fundamentalisms: New Report Analyzes Religious Fundamentalist Strategies and Feminist Responses
- Statement on the Murder of Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, women’s human rights defender of Ciudad Juarez
- Sudan police arrest women protesting at flogging video
- UN Chief Leaves Women out of Year-End Summing Up
- Sex education is expelled from Egyptian schools
- Kurdish Parliament Turns Blind Eye to Prostitution
- Sexual harassment cases in Israel’s civil service rose 40% in 2010
- Women in south Sudan have been targeted in a string of abusive attacks by police cracking down on Western clothes
- Women and girls living in Haiti’s makeshift camps face an increasing risk of rape and sexual violence says Amnesty International new report
- Stand up against hatred and threats against LGBT in Malaysia
- new on womensgrid
- Tower Hamlets Residents Solidarity Campaign – Solidarity with women involved in prostitution in east London
- East London Fawcett: Free Gallery Tour ~ 12 May & Pay Gap Talk ~ 23rd May 2012
- The Light Bulb Moment and future of feminism Book launch and panel – Bristol ~ 15th May 2012
- Hollaback! Portsmouth launch event – Tuesday 22nd May 2012
- Run for Congo Women – Deadline extended to 25th May 2012!
- Fast fall in number of male-only FTSE 100 boards
- Why has the UK got so few women scientists?
- The Haven Wolverhampton E Bulletin May 2012
- 2 vacancies – Shakti Women’s Aid (Edinburgh) ~ 28th May 2012
- Volunteering for Dorset Rape Crisis Centre
- new on women in london
- Information added in March 2012
- Information added in February 2012
- Information added in January 2012
- Pro-Choice Public Meeting – Abortion Rights ~16th May 2012
- Fawcett on Queen’s speech: flexible parental leave / red tape challenge
- Policy and Campaigns Internship – Power and Agency campaign – Fawcett ~ 22nd May 2012
- Administration and Finance Worker – Women in Prison ~ 18th May 2012
- A Women’s Agenda for the Local Elections May 2012 – Survey Results
- Friends of the Women’s Library update on the future of the Library
- Women in Black, vigils and Facebook page
