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Some immigrant women’s advocates are concerned that legislation, drafted by Canadian immigration authorities earlier this year, may be detrimental for some females wanting to move to Canada.
Bill C-45 would give Canadian visa officers the right to reject visa applications from live-in caregivers if they have any reason to suspect they will be exploited or mistreated [...]
Many more women than men are in vulnerable employment, working without pay for a member of their household or self-employed.
A public presentation of the “Progress of the World’s Women” report by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Pretoria, South Africa this week suggests that one of the most powerful constraints on realising [...]
Rwandan refugee women in Uganda face particular hardships under a repatriation push that started in April, with a July 31 target date for completion, a local advocacy group finds. Second of three stories on women and the repatriation turmoil.
Rwanda’s post-conflict recovery has a number of impressive signposts.
One is the economy, which grew at an annual [...]
Annual report of Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel sheds light on phenomenon of sexual assault in workplace. Number of complaints on harassment at work rises by 12% in 2008
The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel will submit its annual report to the Knesset on Monday morning, this time focusing on a [...]
Governments need to provide social protection and promote green jobs for women through alternative investments that provide decent employment, such as public-private and community-related partnerships, according to representatives from governments, the United Nations, civil society and academia, who met in New York today to discuss how to respond to the impacts of the economic crisis [...]
A tally by the National Statistical Office shows the number of employed men stood at 13.40 million in January, down 19,000 compared to a year ago, while the number of employed women stood at 9.46 million, down 84,000 over the same period. This means that 82 percent of the jobs lost over the past year [...]
Eighty Ethiopian women have been in Tripoli Women’s Prison in north Lebanon for over a year, accused of not having a passport which was either taken from them when they started as domestic workers, or which they never had in the first place.
Most were arrested on the street after running away from their employers – [...]
Father Adrian, a Catholic priest in Musina, a South African town on the border with Zimbabwe, established a shelter for women and children fleeing, first, the violence, and then the socio-economic conditions in Zimbabwe.
Conditions in the shelter in the old Catholic church in Nancefield, a Musina township, are basic, but the Church provides meals to [...]
Emanuela Heyninck, pay equity commissioner of Ontario, speaks out against a threatened erosion of wage rights for Canadian women in traditionally female occupations.
Canadians have President Barack Obama to thank for raising awareness about equal pay and gender wage discrimination.
By passing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act early in his administration, Obama extended the period during [...]
Women workers in Third World countries are being hit hardest by the global recession, according to research released by Oxfam ahead of the G20 summit in London on Thursday 2 April.
Female employees tend to be the first laid off as bosses make job cuts, the charity says, and because of their lower status in certain [...]
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 to [...]
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 to Action [...]
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: [...]
The European Commission (EC) has launched a campaign aimed at tackling the gender pay gap across the European Union (EU).
Figures show that, on average, women receive more than 17 per cent less in their pay packets than men.
The campaign has been launched to coincide with International Women’s Day on March 8th.
Vladimir Spidla, the European Union [...]
Advocates for women’s equality have sent an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and opposition leaders, urging them to consider measures that affect women in the upcoming budget.
“Women are half the population of Canada and they cannot afford to ignore us,” said Aalya Ahmad of the Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human [...]
There is a simple way to help rejuvenate many of the world’s economies: invest in the education of girls and make sure they don’t become victims of the global financial meltdown, Nike’s chief executive, the head of UNICEF and Melinda Gates agreed.
For the first time, the World Economic Forum devoted one of its marquee sessions [...]
The new law supporting the right to equal pay is a major step forward for women, but dropping funds for contraceptives from the economic stimulus package will impede women’s rights and cost more in the long run, Human Rights Watch has said.
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, the first bill President Obama signed, [...]
Efforts to improve agriculture in Kenya often miss the mark by targeting men instead of women
As many as 20% of displaced families in DRC may be headed by single mothers
At the gates of one of Kenya’s export processing zones (EPZs) men and women push and shove each other, trying to get their national identity cards taken by the guards.
Having one’s card taken increases the chances of being employed that day as a casual labourer at one of the factories set up to boost the [...]
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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
Economic Crisis: Women Will Suffer Most – a comment from Australia
27 April 2009 in Australasia, Employment Work, Equality, Financial, Opinion Comment
As the economic crisis continues to worsen, with capitalism unable to stop the spiral towards a global depression that will plunge millions into poverty, women will experience the negative consequences more rapidly and with more severity. While the ruling class — owners of banks, corporations and also governments — search for ways to make workers [...]