Archive for March, 2009
The bad news is that so many people are losing their jobs. The good news, says Mimi Abramovitz, are three new rules about jobless benefits in the Obama stimulus package that are bound to help women and correct a major gender bias. After years of facing discrimination by the nation’s unemployment insurance program, women stand [...]
Nergui Manalsuren interviews Rosa Lizarde of GCAP’s Feminist Taskforce Activists are calling for an economic bailout plan for women and demanding that their voices be heard at the decision-making table ahead of the G20 summit of the world’s biggest economies in London on Apr. 2. Rosa G. Lizarde, a member of GCAP, the Global Call [...]
IPS wants to redress a huge imbalance that exists today: only 22% of the voices you hear and read in the news are women’s. Elections, health, education, armed conflicts, corruption, laws, trade, climate change, the global financial and food crises, and natural disasters. IPS covers these frontline issues asking an often forgotten question: What does [...]
The Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) has asked WLUML to forward the announcement of a call for country research partners on the issue of sexuality and the internet. The exploratory research is on how emerging debates and growing practice of regulating online content might either impede or facilitate different ways [...]
As the world, including Zimbabwe, commemorates International Women’s Day, members of WOZA find little to celebrate. As organisations, both local and international, take the opportunity afforded by International Women’s Day to speak out about the need for gender equality, respect for women’s right and an end to violence, WOZA joins the chorus. Yet we understand [...]
1,500 attend wet rally to push for ‘good jobs and dignity for all’ In tough economic times, fear about layoffs, bankruptcies and companies shutting their doors threaten to push other issues off the public agenda. Hundreds gathered in Toronto to mark International Women’s Day and make sure that in the current recession, issues critical to [...]
The struggle to end violence against women is clearly still a long way off. Perhaps for this reason the theme of the recently celebrated International Women’s Day was “Women and Men United to end Violence against Women and Girls”. And rightly so too. Violence against women is an every day occurrence and it comes in [...]
The Knesset marked International Women’s Day on Thursday, as dozens of women’s rights activists held a demonstration nearby during which they called on Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu to appoint more female ministers. “(Foreign Minister) Tzipi Livni is expected to be the only female cabinet member in the next coalition; this will take the struggle for [...]
Thirty-eight women were chosen for special appreciation as all women were honoured with a ceremony on the front lawn of the Government Administration Building during Cayman’s celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD) on Monday, 9 March. The IWD ceremony, part of Honouring Women Month (HWM), was opened by the Minister of Health and Human Services, [...]
The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day was women and men united to end violence against women and girls. Reports of violence against women and girls are on the rise in Senegal, and outreach workers say there could not have been a better theme. Violence against women and girls in Senegal does not just [...]
A group of Lebanese hikers celebrated International Women’s Day on Sunday by organizing a hike to a women’s cooperative in the west Bekaa region of Rashaya. The roots of International Women’s Day began over 150 years ago. On March 8, 1857, hundreds of women staged a strike against the textile factories in New York City, [...]
This year’s event included strong participation from Latina, Asian and Black women, as well as many activists from Philadelphia’s LGBT community. With the growing economic crisis hitting women the hardest, many speakers addressed social and economic justice issues, including the mortgage crisis, health care reform and the struggle to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. [...]
2009 UN theme is: “Women and men united to end violence against women and girls” UN Secretary-General’s Message on International Women’s Day (pdf file) UN observances worldwide List of IWD events in the UK and Ireland at http://iwd2009.wordpress.com
It may send feminists into a spin but the Vatican’s official newspaper has pronounced the washing machine more important for the liberation of women than the contraceptive Pill. In a long editorial marking International Women’s Day, L’Osservatore Romano, the mouthpiece of the Roman Catholic Church, said washing machines had freed generations of women from the [...]
March 8 is known globally as International Women’s Day, and it’s a day that is fast approaching. That name, “Women’s Day,” may offend some people and lead some men to ask – either seriously or in jest – “when’s ‘International Men’s Day?’” Don’t let the name fool you, I would reply. Men play a part [...]
At the occasion of Women’s Day, Breakthrough is inviting you to join the fight against domestic violence. Get involved with our campaign, Bell Bajao! (Ring the Bell), calling on men and boys to join women in bringing domestic violence to a halt. Bell Bajao! is a high profile national campaign using innovative media outreach throughout [...]
Iranian women’s presence in the social, political, and cultural arena is fairly recent. However, this movement, its progress and its impact, embraces much of Iran’s contemporary history. Their struggles took shape at the beginning of the 20th century as a movement for the right to education and to visibility in social life. This took on [...]
On Sunday 8 March, 2009, the world celebrated the International Women’s Day. It is a day that offers the world the opportunity to reflect on the status of women, with the objectives of highlighting their contributions, achievements as well as their limitations in terms of promotion of gender equality and empowerment at all levels. In [...]
Protest march, awareness camp and meetings were organized by different organizations to mark the International Women’s Day on Sunday in the state capital. Activists of Women Power Connect and Gramin evam Nagar Vikas Parishad led by Anju Sinha and Ramkishore Prasad Singh submitted a memorandum to governor R L Bhatia demanding reservation of 33 per [...]
Oum Abdallah Elwan, 44, spent her International Women’s day with her seven children in a cemetery mourning her husband, who was killed in a 22-day Israeli military offensive carried out on Gaza ended on Jan. 18. Elwan is just one among many Palestinian women in the enclave strip, whom lost their husbands or sons in [...]
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
- Where are the Women? Free cross university student led Women’s conference ~ 18th February 2012
- Louder Now! Launch Event – Feminism on Film season – Newcastle ~ 29th February 2012
- 6 February: An evening with Sister Fa – A celebration of progress made to end Female Genital Cutting
- Stalking consultation – closes 5th February 2012
- Woman who suffered years of domestic violence jailed because too terrified to testify
- I feel like as a woman I’m not welcome – Asylum Aid’s new research report combines legal and qualitative research in a gender analysis of the UK asylum system
- New report challenges social sector to smash the glass ceiling once and for all
- Leveson must back ban on sexualised images in media say women’s groups
- Ministers press on with controversial abortion changes
- Abolishing social fund will hit women and children hardest
- new on women in london
- Advocacy & Support Advisor – Complex Needs (Female*) – Solace – 9th February 2012
- 4 vacancies – Refuge – 3rd and 6th February 2012
- OBJECT present evidence at the Leveson Inquiry to end Page 3
- Support for women who have experienced sexual violence – Amina Scheme – Eaves
- Women Involved with the Criminal Justice System: One Day Training – Women in Prison – 29 March 2012
- Quiz Night – Womans Trust – 27th January 2012
- Development Manager – Clean Break ~ 6th February 2012
- Volunteer Bookkeeper – RASASC ~ 16th February 2012
- New Report – Silenced Voices Speak: Strategies for protecting migrant women from violence and abuse – ROW
- Hidden Value: Demonstrating the extraordinary impact of women’s voluntary and community organisations – WRC
