Helping Women in Business in the Pacific
Last week women in the Pacific communed in Vanuatu for a three-day ‘Economic Opportunities for Women in the Pacific’ workshop.
Bringing together women from across the Pacific and East Timor, the workshop presented the women with an opportunity to improve their business skills and develop professional networks through a series [...]
Helping Women in Business in the Pacific
WHO Laments the Lack of Respect for Women’s Right to Good Health in the Pacific
WHO Laments the Lack of Respect for Women’s Right to Good Health in the Pacific
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has used the term “shameful” to describe the fact that 90 percent of maternal deaths in the Western Pacific Region could be avoided if women’s right to good health were properly met.
WHO said that more than 100 [...]
UNIFEM and UNAIDS Speech: HIV/AIDS and Women
UNIFEM and UNAIDS Speech: HIV/AIDS and Women
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) welcome the opportunity to address the Commission on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, to highlight the issues of women and girls in the context [...]
Book store defends ‘Control-a-Woman’ toy
Book store defends ‘Control-a-Woman’ toy
IWDA supporter Katie Robertson is outraged after discovering a book store was selling a ‘Control-a-Woman’ remote.
The toy product, similar to a TV remote control, is being sold as a novelty gift for $14.99.
“There are certain buttons on there. For example, the male may decide that he wants beer, sex or food. He may press a button in which he requires the woman to remove her clothes, cook, clean, leave, [or] say yes,” she told ABC Radio’s Jon Faine.
Jo Crawford from Policy and Research at IWDA comments.
International Women’s Day Stories
International Women’s Day Stories
On International Women’s Day, IPS news agency spoke with Iranian Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi and new UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova about their efforts to champion women.
Both went to New York, with thousands of others, to review what progress women have made since the landmark Beijing Conference on Women, fifteen years [...]
