Fear of street harassment prevents women from freely moving around, hinders their personal development, in terms of studies, work or recreation, and has an isolating effect on them. The regional programme ‘Cities Without Violence Against Women, Safe Cities For All’aims to work with local governments to ensure equal access to public spaces, and help design and build cities that are safer for everyone.

Religion is playing an increasing role in public life across the globe. The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) as well as the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and the Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) are engaged in research projects on the role of religion and gender equality. To make their voices heard they set up this online forum to debate and share views.

Politically awkward when it comes to negotiating alliances and congressional support from the right, the decriminalisation of abortion has been dropped from a Brazilian government human rights plan and from the election debate.

There are approximately one million, mainly black women, who are domestic workers in South Africa. Testimonies provided by both domestic workers and their provided damning evidence of the abuse of workers in South Africa’s middle and upper class homes.

An survey of rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) commissioned by Oxfam reveals that 60% percent of rape victims were gang raped, more than half in their own homes, and there is an appalling increase in the number of civilian rapists.

BRIDGE, an organization based in the UK that supports gender advocacy is currently recruiting an overview report writer for the forthcoming Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Climate Change.

A statement jointly released by civil society organizations and actors in New York concerning the Beijing +15 process review at the Commission on the Status of Women has been endorsed by more than 120 signatories.

A devastating highlight of the findings is that the global financial crisis has virtually wiped out the economic gains that have been made by women over the last few years.

When a two-week meeting on gender empowerment concluded at U.N. headquarters, there were several lingering questions crying out for answers.

The official Declaration appears to overstate the progress made, and to ignore the slow and partial nature of implementation. It underestimates the degree and types of challenges that remain for women in their multiple identities, including the persistence of all forms of violence. Pdf format.