Archive for December, 2009
November 25th was the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Garden of Hope Foundation in Taiwan and the Taiwan Anti-Sexual Exploitation Alliance, together with local and international allies, express our deep concern regarding the Cabinet’s recent proposal to legalize prostitution, a form of violence against women. Five [...]
DEVELOPMENT: UNFPA Puts Human Face on Climate Blowback http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49320 Q&A: Maternal Mortality Rates ‘One of the Saddest Cases’ in Asia http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49348 GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49364 GENDER: Women in Science Face Discrimination in India http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49307 CLIMATE CHANGE: Women Central to Adaptation, Mitigation http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49323 INDIA: Women’s Political Empowerment, Yes; Better Lives, No http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49374 Q&A: [...]
Eight years after the formal end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, women are facing growing challenges in public life and have limited access to justice, according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). “The space for women in public life is shrinking,” warned Norah Niland, head of UNAMA’s human rights unit and a representative [...]
Norah Niland, the United Nations’ human rights representative in Afghanistan, said field research conducted late last year and early this year found rape affected all parts of Afghanistan, across all communities and social groups. “Women and girls are at risk of rape in their homes, in their villages and in detention facilities,” Niland said at [...]
Some 50 women dressed in black, members of a caravan that left Mexico City several days ago, staged a protest in Ciudad Juarez to demand that officials clear up the deaths of hundreds of young women in the border city over the past nearly two decades. Participants in the “Exodus for Life” protest, which was [...]
GENDER: Laws, Budgets and Pigeonholes – Part 1 http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews49270 GENDER: “Truly Exciting If the U.S. Could Ratify CEDAW” – Part 2 http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews49271 CENTRAL AMERICA: Gender-based Violence, the Hidden Face of Insecurity http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews49279 MIDEAST: Gazans Brace for Cold, Bleak and Miserable Winter http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews49285 POLITICS-NAMIBIA: The Struggle Does So Not Continue http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews49258 CUBA: Fewer Storks Visiting Shiny [...]
Women will have to make up 50% of leading French company boards, under a new proposal put forward by Nicolas Sarkozy’s Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) party. The centre-right party wants all companies listed on the Paris stock exchange, the CACA 40, to ensure that at least half of their boardroom members are female [...]
French Prime Minister announced proposals to ban “physical violence within couples” in France during a speech to mark the United Nations’ 10th International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. “To materialize the penalty, physical violence within couples will be banned by legislature,” Fillon said, promising the legalization by next June. “It’s a considerable [...]
A survivor of the murderous rampage at the Ecole polytechnique says the government will have blood on its hands if the controversial federal gun registry dies and there is a spike in firearm-related killings. Heidi Rathjen, a former engineering student at the school, was among those who worked to reform Canada’s gun laws and set [...]
Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre Survivors Reflect On The “Montreal Massacre” 20 Years Later The killing of 14 women by a lone gunman led to the setting up of the White Ribbon Campaign in Canada that calls on men to act against male violence against women There is a White Ribbon Campaign in England and [...]
Life imprisonment is the minimum punishment for anyone convicted of having gay sex, under an anti-homosexuality bill currently before Uganda’s parliament. If the accused person is HIV positive or a serial offender, or a “person of authority” over the other partner, or if the “victim” is under 18, a conviction will result in the death [...]
Marking World AIDS Day on Tuesday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon “warned … that new infections are outpacing the gains from treating people with the HIV virus” and that discrimination against HIV-positive people remains “widespread,” the Associated Press reports. “While the world is seeing signs of progress in reversing the AIDS epidemic, Ban said Tuesday [...]
Occasion: World AIDS Day, 1 December 2009. A recent report by the World Health Organization revealed that AIDS is the leading killer of women of reproductive age in poor and middle-income countries. This is unacceptable at a time when HIV treatment is available. As we are commemorating World AIDS Day, we need to ensure that [...]
Women are at greater risk of HIV infection and HIV has a particularly devastating impact on women and their families. Unless these gender disparities and their underlying causes are adequately addressed, efforts to reduce the spread of HIV and address its consequences will be woefully incomplete. The picture at the end of 2009 is, in [...]
World Aids Day World AIDS Day theme: Universal Access and Human Rights World Aids Day 2009 UK theme: HIV:Reality World Aids Day is one of the 16 Days Which are the 16 Days and Why? 2009 Theme – Commit . Act . Demand: We CAN End Violence Against Women!
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
