Archive for the 'Equality' Category
The World Health Organisation said on Monday women tend to receive poorer medical care than men.
Following is a breakdown of the differences between male and female health in children, adolescents, adults and elderly people, according to the United Nations health agency’s report:
INFANTS AND CHILDREN
– Death rates and causes of death are similar among boys and [...]
Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years and in older age, a WHO report has found.
Launching the report, entitled Women and health: today’s evidence tomorrow’s agenda, WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan called [...]
The Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO), All Women’s Action Society (AWAM), Sisters in Islam (SIS) and Pusat Kesedaran Komuniti (EMPOWER) have joined hands in calling for the abolition of Section 498 of the Penal Code which they claimed was discriminatory against women.
WAO president Meera Samanther said women should be accorded rights as independent human beings an [...]
IN THIS ISSUE
- UNIFEM Welcomes Strong Support by the General Assembly for the Establishment of a New Gender Entity
- New Security Council Resolutions Strengthen Women’s Protection in Conflict and Participation in Peacebuilding
- Launching in November: Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women
- UNIFEM around the World
- o Clinton Global Initiative Selects UN Trust [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Is It Time to Plan Another U.N. Population Meet?
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48918
RIGHTS-UGANDA: Female Circumcision Still a Vote Winner
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48915
DEVELOPMENT-SOUTH ASIA: Women’s Peace Offensive
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48905
ECONOMY: ‘It’s Smart to Invest in Girls’
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48885
Q&A: ‘Cambodia’s Penal Code Aims to Silence Gov’t Critics’
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48924
AFRICA: Uneven Progress on Development Goals
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48869
INDIA: Return of Traditional Birth Attendants Urged to Meet MDG 5
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48853
RIGHTS: Unsafe Abortions Killing 70,000 a Year
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48851
DEVELOPMENT: [...]
Some governments’ broad counter-terrorism laws are punishing women and gays and suppressing groups pushing gender equality, a U.N. envoy of human rights and counter-terrorism said on Monday.
Many of these people are caught between being victims of extremist groups and victims of counter-terrorism measures, said Martin Scheinin, a U.N. special rapporteur on promotion and protection of [...]
• Nordic countries continue to have the smallest equality gaps between men and women
• Report demonstrates that engaging women equally with men in all aspects of life is imperative for economically competitive and prosperous societies
• In particular, for rapid, sustainable economic recovery from financial crisis, integrating women and girls imperative
• Download: report, rankings (PDF, excel) [...]
Red light for Burqa-wearing drivers in Bahrain
http://www.ips.org/blog/mdg3/
LATIN AMERICA: Big Gender, Ethnic Gaps in Wages Found
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48820
PHILIPPINES: Women in Troubled South Bear Heavy Burden of Conflict
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48826
UGANDA: Wanted: New Messengers on Women’s Rights
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48823
Q&A: Invest in Young People in Latin America
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48813
HEALTH: Africa Leads World in Premature Infant Deaths
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48745
Q&A: Women’s Empowerment: ‘Men Are Interested’
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48822
PHILIPPINES: Like Men, Women Aim to Put [...]
Over two thirds of people in the world who are blind are women announce the development charity Sightsavers International, who was speaking out about this staggering gender bias this World Sight Day (8 October).
Today there are more than 20 million women in the world who are needlessly blind, 90% of whom live in developing countries. [...]
Countries where women’s literacy rates and access to education are significantly worse than men’s tend to have higher levels of hunger, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
“Wherever women are not empowered you see high levels of hunger,” Suresh Babu, a senior research fellow with IFPRI, told IRIN.
The institute’s 2009 Global Hunger Index [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Is It Time to Plan Another U.N. Population Meet?
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48918
RIGHTS-UGANDA: Female Circumcision Still a Vote Winner
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48915
DEVELOPMENT-SOUTH ASIA: Women’s Peace Offensive
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48905
ECONOMY: ‘It’s Smart to Invest in Girls’
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48885
Q&A: ‘Cambodia’s Penal Code Aims to Silence Gov’t Critics’
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48924
AFRICA: Uneven Progress on Development Goals
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48869
INDIA: Return of Traditional Birth Attendants Urged to Meet MDG 5
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48853
DEVELOPMENT: Meeting MDGs “Not Rocket Science”
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48847
HEALTH: Study [...]
Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip say safety concerns and social traditions, not Islamic religious values, are the main reason behind a decision to ban women from riding motorbikes and scooters.
In a decision which would raise eyebrows in Rome or Rio de Janeiro, the Interior Ministry said it was banning women from riding two-wheelers or [...]
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution last week urging all countries to increase the ranks of women with a seat at the table when negotiations take place to resolve conflicts and start building peace.
Nine years after the adoption of a landmark U.N. resolution calling for women be included in decision-making positions at every [...]
Scores of Maoist activists protested outside the venue of the controversial “Miss Nepal” contest last month, saying the beauty pageant was an insult to women.
The former civil war rebels chanted “you can’t expose the women” as they sat on the street outside a high security army club in the heart of Kathmandu.
Many protesters waved black [...]
LATIN AMERICA: Strides and Setbacks for Domestic and Rural Workers
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48613
ZIMBABWE: Virgins Forced into Marriage to ‘Appease’ Evil Spirits
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48630
RIGHTS: Shelters Open for Battered Husbands
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48608
RIGHTS-JAPAN: Women Talk: ‘We Want Greater Gender Equality’
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48629
UGANDA-RIGHTS: Bride Price: You Feel You Are Family Property
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48619
INDIA: Most Live Donors Are Wives or Mothers
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48571
ZIMBABWE: Board Gives School System Failing Marks
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews48584
PAKISTAN: ‘Empty Stomachs’ Could Spark [...]
Palestinian women in one of Lebanon’s largest refugee camps say that with no rights in the country or even within their own community, they feel they are treated “worse than dogs.” (MAP)
Offering a unique insight into life in one of 12 refugee camps in the country, Medical Aid for Palestinians, a British charity working for [...]
In the “Media and Women” panel discussion of the Mesopotamia Social Forum Turkish journalists and authors evaluated the role of women in the mass media regarding the Kurdish question.
As part of last week’s meeting of the Mesopotamia Social Forum (MSF) publication director of the daily Günlük newspaper Filiz Koçaeli summarized her point of view in [...]
Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 2009
Liberating women figured high in the official rhetoric justifying regime change in Iraq, but reality on the ground is a different story. In this carefully researched book, Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, both professors at British universities, investigate why the situation of Iraqi [...]
POLITICS-ITALY: Where Are the Women? – Part 1
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48536
POLITICS-ITALY: Don’t Even Speak of Equality! – Part 2
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48537
POPULATION: Where’s Family Planning on Climate Change Radar?
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48489
MOZAMBIQUE: Building Awareness to Reduce Maternal Mortality
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48476
POLITICS: Post-Conflict Security in Need of Women
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48486
RIGHTS-BANGLADESH: Glimmers of Hope Amid an Elusive Peace
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48534
ITALY-LIBYA: Migrants Returned To Face Abuse
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48530
LAOS: Land Legislation Disempowers Women – Part 1
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48520
LAOS: What [...]
Recent postings- Trafficking Victims at UN Highlight Need for Recognition
- 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
- new on womensgrid
- 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
- new on women in london
- 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
“Women Will Benefit From Secularism” – Nawal El-Saadawi
28 October 2009 in Equality, Faith, Feminism, Government, Middle East, Opinion Comment
Controversy stalks dissident writer Nawal El-Saadawi, whose views on women and religion have put her at odds with Egyptian conservatives.
Recently she returned to Cairo after nearly three years in exile, and has already created a stir with the launch of a local chapter of her global campaign for the separation of religion and state.
“God has [...]