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Women are being excluded from the debate over climate change, despite being most at risk, and governments should do more to ensure their situations and views are represented, campaigners and experts say.
So far, climate change negotiations have responded poorly to the effects on women, activists say. And while global policies advocate a gender perspective, and [...]
Global Initiative Puts Fuel on Par with Food and Water as Urgent Needs in Humanitarian Assistance
Top United Nations officials, joined by the Women’s Refugee Commission, have announced an important policy development that will compel humanitarian agencies worldwide to treat refugees’ and internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) access to cooking fuel with the same level of urgency [...]
Women need to be recognised for their role in securing food supplies and fighting climate change, ActionAid told G8 environment ministers (when they met) in Italy ahead of this year’s summit in July.
“It is women farmers in developing countries who are the true custodians of genetic varieties on which the human food chain depends,” ActionAid’s [...]
UNICEF’s 2009 Humanitarian Action Report (HAR) highlights the plight of children and women around the globe in humanitarian emergencies.
The Humanitarian Action Report is UNICEF’s annual funding appeal for protracted emergencies and is seeking just over $1 billion to assist children and women in 36 countries. The amount sought is some 17 per cent [...]
United Nations climate change talks should do more to incorporate women’s concerns into negotiations on a new global pact, environmental and women’s groups said last week.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said poor women in developing countries would be affected most by climate change because of its impact on agriculture, food security and [...]
Six months after the deadly Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta region, the UN refugee agency remains concerned about the welfare of many widows and orphans.
“UNHCR is a protection agency and our monitoring in the villages affected by Cyclone Nargis has found a number of vulnerable people, such as women who lost their husbands and [...]
Initial needs assessments of survivors of the 29 October earthquake in northwest Balochistan warn that women and children are most at risk.
Over 70,000 people, including 30,000 children, were left homeless by a quake that measured 6.4 on the Richter scale and caused at least 270 deaths. Nawab Aslam Raisani, chief minister of Balochistan, has warned [...]
When natural disasters strike, studies show that majority of those who perish are women. They accounted for 61% of deaths from Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, 70-80% in the Indian Ocean tsunami and 91% in the 1991cyclone in Bangladesh, according to data from the Asian Development Bank.
“The London School of Economics did a reseach [...]
Among the 7,000 families living in camps for the displaced since the Koshi River – the country’s largest – burst its banks on 18 August, women and girls are most vulnerable, say agencies, as facilities in Sunsari and Saptari districts lack adequate healthcare and protection.
A principal concern is lack of privacy for women treated in [...]
More than 800,000 people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Haiti in the wake of hurricanes Fay and Gustav and tropical storm Hanna. Houses, medical facilities, main roads and bridges have been destroyed, and an estimated 100,000 people have sought refuge in temporary shelters.
The crisis-affected population includes some 24,000 pregnant women. Eight [...]
Even as people grapple with the tragedy of being displaced by the floods in Bihar, there is a silent disaster that is unfolding.
With a large number of people migrating to Delhi and other cities, NGOs and activists warn that trafficking of women and children is likely to see an upsurge.
Of the 3.3 million [...]
Actress Mia Farrow Friday joined other prominent women activists to slam Myanmar’s ruling junta on its human rights record in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis.
The US actress-turned-activist spoke to reporters as she returned from visiting the Thai border with Myanmar — formerly known as Burma — where she met with 12 women’s organisations who say [...]
For many families whose lives were torn apart by Hurricane Katrina, the effort to relocate and recover has been a difficult and arduous experience, to say the least.
Women struggling to leave an abusive relationship, however, have the added burden of knowing there are fewer resources available to them since the storm.
Two programs operated in St. [...]
Myanmar police have rescued more than 450 victims of human trafficking since 2005, a private weekly magazine said, adding that most of them were being smuggled to neighbouring China.
Police have arrested 480 people accused of trying to smuggle people out of the country since September 2005, when a new law took effect banning the practice, [...]
A federally funded study has found that boys and girls are being sold for sex in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The shameful practice was revealed by Shared Hope International, an organization dedicated to preventing sex trafficking and to rescuing and restoring the victims of sexual slavery.
The area was chosen because of an influx of [...]
“African women, in globalization process, encounter three major challenges: poor access to information, little use of technology and health complications fueled by many diseases and economic disadvantages” said Luisa Dias Diogo, the first woman prime minister of Mozambique.
“First of all, it (the challenge) is access to communication, information and knowledge,” the prime minister, who is [...]
“Climate change is harder on women in poor countries, where mothers stay in areas hit by drought, deforestation or crop failure as men move to literally greener pastures.”
“Many destructive activities against the environment disproportionately affect women, because most women in the world, and especially in the developing world, are very dependent on primary natural resources: [...]
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- END FGM European Campaign launches web site
- Rid the world of female genital mutilation
- Lifting Silence on Menstruation to Keep Girls in School in Uganda
- Obama’s attack on abortion rights
- Differences between men’s and women’s health
- WHO calls for action beyond the health sector to improve the health of girls and women
- Malaysian Women’s Groups say Abolish Section 498
- Politics can be a Risky Business for Women in Bolivia
- Somali rebels close women’s organisations
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- Rape Crisis Centres Westminster Hall debate 10 November 2009 at 12:30 pm
- Grassroots Co-ordinator – Women for Refugee Women – 23rd November 2009
- Jenny Okojie is doing a 7.2km sponsored walk for CRASAC – Please sponsor her!
- 16 days of action event Greater Manchester
- Football teams needed for special tournament against domestic violence in Barnet
- Be a judge for a day in Truro as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Week
- The right of murder suspects to use their partner’s sexual infidelity as a partial defence in court is set to end
- 100 rapists are let off with a caution: The serious offences that never come to court
- Scotland Yard has instructed officers not to use the phrase ‘gang rape’ to describe such crimes because it is too ‘emotive’ a term
- Government Shelves Measures To Restrict Paedophiles On Facebook because of Human Rights concerns
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- Information added to website September 2009
- Information added to website August 2009
- Information added to website July 2009
- GLDVP January-April 2010 open training programme is now available
- Prostitution Clauses Policing And Crime Bill 2009 – ECP
- Head of Communications – Women’s Resource Centre – 23rd November 2009
- Mrs Goundo’s Daughter – Free Event – Forward – 7th December 2009
- New European Campaign on FGM – Forward
- FORWARD releases an Information Services and Support Guide for Young People in the UK
- FGM is always with us – experiences perceptions and beliefs of women affected by female genital mutilation in London – Forward
