Gender
- Fri May 09 2008
Resisting and challenging religious fundamentalisms
Religious fundamentalisms are gaining strength in many countries, manifesting themselves in control over women's sexuality, bodies, family relationships, movement, dress codes, and participation in public, etc.
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Gender
- Tue May 06 2008
NGOs positions on UNIFEM appointment
NGOs and Networks' statements on the last UNIFEM appointment and the low weight given to women's voices from the global South.
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Gender
- Wed Apr 30 2008
Campaign and Information Center
The UNelections.org campaign is encouraging the United Nations to increase transparency regarding how the posts are filled, place a greater emphasis on individual qualifications, reduce corruptive political and financial trading for positions, and help ensure more equity for candidates from all member states.
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Gender
/Trade and Regional Integration
- Thu Apr 24 2008
UNCTAD hears gender inequality becoming worse - and better
The only way that the poor, particularly women, will benefit from all the efforts that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has put into improving global trade is to ensure that power inequalities are redressed.
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Human Rights
/Gender
- Mon Apr 14 2008
United States Senate Committee hearing on rape as a weapon of war
The focus of the hearing was sexual violence as a weapon of war in Democratic Republic of the Congo, with testimonies from Lisa F. Jackson, Karin Wachter, Dr. Kelly Dawn Askin, and Dr. Denis Mukwege.
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Social Development
/Gender
- Sat Apr 12 2008
FAO’s gender position
This public statement is important to ensure that for 2009 FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) regional office declares the Gender Position as permanent, well resourced and strong mechanism for FAO.
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Gender
- Wed Apr 09 2008
The UNIFEM appointment "has attracted great concern"
Statement from Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) on the United Nations appointment of a new Executive Director for UNIFEM.
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Gender
- Tue Apr 08 2008
Experienced gender official from Spain chosen to head UNIFEM
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced today that Inés Alberdi of Spain has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
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Gender
- Mon Apr 07 2008
30 Years on: are Latin American women riding the political wave?
This report finds that, although the number of women in politics has improved overall, real progress is highly uneven and limited to only some countries. Indeed, even within these countries progress is largely confined to only some elected offices.
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Gender
- Wed Mar 26 2008
Re-thinking the crime of abortion in Brazil
On March 12, Ipas Brazil and the National Feminist Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health launched a new campaign calling for a review of the law against abortion.
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