Archive for the 'Media' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In 2003, the African nation of Liberia was in turmoil; its president Charles Taylor was involved in a vicious civil war with war lords who wanted to take his place. Caught in the middle were innocent civilians who bore the brunt of the violence.
One woman, Leymah Gbowee, had had enough and she and her [...]
A Polish court has ordered a Roman Catholic magazine to pay a fine and apologize to a woman for likening her to a killer for wanting an abortion and equating the practice with Nazi crimes.
Judge Ewa Solecka ruled Wednesday that Catholics are free to express their moral disapproval of abortion — and even call it [...]
Women are well represented in newsrooms but struggle to find a place in senior management or on boards, said Business Day in a report on a study by Gender Links.
Women also still earn less than their male counterparts in the media, according to the survey conducted in South Africa and the Southern African Development Community [...]
A new generation of Italian women are finding a voice after a ’summer of sleaze’ in Italian politics
After a summer of sleaze in which Berlusconi has been variously accused of “frequenting minors”, sleeping with an escort girl and holding debauched parties at his Sardinian villa, a feminist backlash is gaining momentum. The target is not only Berlusconi but the wider culture of a country in which a prime minister could survive such [...]
Italy: Women Are Not Wallpaper
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48442
Japan: ‘Princess Corps’ Cracks the Glass Ceiling
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48375
Africa: Cross-Border Links to Boost Women’s Economic Empowerment
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48390
SRI LANKA: Women Want Better Pay, Out of Free Trade Zones
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48389
SOUTH AFRICA: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48393
CENTRAL AMERICA: Crisis Chews Women Up, Spits Them Out
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48405
MINING-INDIA: Woman Leads Tribals Against World’s Steel Maker
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48419
SOUTH SUDAN: Complicating the Vote for [...]
The number of Web sites containing child pornography is increasing and more images show serious abuses, a U.N. expert said last week.
More than 4 million Web sites worldwide show images of children being sexually exploited, said the U.N. investigator on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Najat M’jid Maalla.
“There is an increase [...]
The involvement of men and boys is imperative to reducing the spread of HIV among women, according to a panel of experts participating in a new UNICEF podcast – part of a series on children and AIDS.
AUDIO: Listen now http://www.unicef.org/videoaudio/ramfiles/urp8420_podcastHIV.ram
Women and girls are disproportionately vulnerable to HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV prevalence rates [...]
IRAN: Backlash Mounts Against Women Ministers
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48297
RIGHTS-AFRICA: Ugandan Court Asked to Declare Bride Price Unconstitutional
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48364
CLIMATE CHANGE: Rising Seas Demand Better Family Planning
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48348
HEALTH-NIGERIA: Maternal Mortality, a Rural Community’s Example
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48305
EDUCATION-ZAMBIA: Bicycles Help Girls Go Further
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48349
MORE IPS IN-DEPTH COVERAGE OF WOMEN IN THE NEWS.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/women/index.asp
Nawal el Saadawi, the “priestess of secular feminism” is back. She returned to Egypt last week, bringing with her a new novel that is set to reignite all of the controversial issues she had left behind more than two years ago while going to the US on a self-imposed exile.
“I came back because I have [...]
August 2009 – In This Issue:
Colloquium on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Peace Negotiations: Implementing SCR 1820
Financial and Economic Crisis Impacts Women and Men Differently
Say NO to Violence against Women
* Speakers of 16 Parliaments and Chair of Bosnian Council of Ministers Say NO
* Thailand: Youth Say NO to Violence against Women
UNIFEM around the World
* Call for [...]
CURRENTS – UNIFEM’S ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER – August 2009
This issue is available in HTML format online at http://www.unifem.org/news_events/currents/issue200903.php
IN THIS ISSUE
- Colloquium on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Peace Negotiations: Implementing SCR 1820
- Financial and Economic Crisis Impacts Women and Men Differently
- Say NO to Violence against Women
o Speakers of 16 Parliaments and Chair of Bosnian [...]
COLOMBIA: Women Lead Opposition to Gold Mine
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47942
NEPAL: Women Push for Gender Equality in New Constitution
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47937
RWANDA: Credit for Women’s Development
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47901
AFRICA: HIV Laws Do More Harm Than Good
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47899
MOROCCO: New Law, But the Same Old Men
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47895
URUGUAY: Schoolgirls Access Computers but Can’t Shake Gender Stereotypes
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47885
Q&A with LESLEY ESTEVES: “Every Work Form You Fill [...]
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: [...]
Online pedophiles are becoming more aggressive in their pursuit of children, often using suggestive photographs or inappropriate online conversations to blackmail their victims into face-to-face meetings.
The head of the Virtual Global Taskforce into online child abuse, Jim Gamble, said police were witnessing an explosion in child pornography, driven by the ready availability of digital media [...]
Recent postings- “Women Will Benefit From Secularism” – Nawal El-Saadawi
- ‘Polygamy club’ draws criticism in Indonesia
- Prostitution laws protect dignity and equality says lawyer in Ontario
- Rhode Island to close loophole which allows indoor prostitution
- 52 children rescued in nationwide sex-trafficking raids in the US
- Malawi health workers grapple with rising incidence of rape
- Israel’s first multi-disciplinary rape crisis center opens at Hadassah
- Libya should drop charges against journalist who reported allegations of sexual harassment
- Women’s and gay rights violated under guise of counter-terrorism says UN envoy
- Iceland leads Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009
- new on womensgrid
- Women’s Theatre in the 1970s and 80s
- Volunteer Befrienders (Female) – Hibiscus – London
- Welsh Women’s Aid Trustee advert
- Reclaim the Night Leeds 28th November 2009
- Behind Closed Doors to benefit from inaugural event – 14th November 2009 Leeds
- Revival of This Wide Night at Soho Theatre – 24th November to 5th December 2009
- Tribute to Romy Schneider, 20 – 29 November 2009 including double bill of Maidens in Uniforms
- Women’s Films at The We The Peoples Festival 2009 19, 23-30 November 2009
- Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven – 40th Anniversary Reading – 8th November 2009
- Please sign the petition for continuing funding for Karma Nirvana
- new on women in london
- 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
- Are you an London-based IDVA? – GLDVP
- GLDVP Newsletter – November 2009
- British public supports a legal requirement on employers to check they are paying women and men equally poll for Equal Pay Day finds – Fawcett
- Victory as Peers vote for women, not pimps and punters! – Object and Eaves
- 7 vacancies – Solace Women’s Aid – 12th November 2009
Libya should drop charges against journalist who reported allegations of sexual harassment
28 October 2009 in Africa, Government, Media, Opinion Comment, Rape and Sexual Assault
The Libyan government should investigate allegations of sexual harassment in a state-run residence for women who had been orphaned instead of charging the journalist who reported the story with criminal defamation – Human Rights Watch
Mohamed al-Sareet, a Libyan journalist, wrote on Jeel Libya, an independent news website based in London, about a rare demonstration in [...]