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 [...]
International Women’s Day Stories
Call for proposal - Gender Situation and Needs Analysis: UNIFEM, Somalia
Call for proposal - Gender Situation and Needs Analysis: UNIFEM, Somalia
Due to the continued conflict situation, the national gender machineries - the three ministries tasked with gender equality or women’s welfare - in the three zones of Somalia have not only been marginalised in whatever very little institutional development initiatives have been undertaken but are [...]
New Online Forum: Gender Equality Online
New Online Forum: Gender Equality Online
Gender Equality Online is the first online forum dedicated to gender and development.
It is an opportunity for those interested in the world of gender and development to interact with other interested people, learn more about issues which concern women across the globe and provides a space for you to have your [...]
9TH CIVICUS World Assembly, Canada
9TH CIVICUS World Assembly, Canada
August 20-23, 2010
Location: Montréal, Canada
The overall theme of the CIVICUS World Assembly is ‘Acting Together for a Just World’.
Every year this is explored through a focus theme. In 2010 the focus theme will be ‘Seeking Out Solutions’.
This theme will address the issues of Economy, Development and Climate by way of six [...]
Transforming Power Relations: Equal Status of Women and Men at the Family Level in the Pacific
Transforming Power Relations: Equal Status of Women and Men at the Family Level in the Pacific
The new advocacy brief: Transforming Power Relations: Equal Status of Women and Men at the Family Level in the Pacific, is designed to raise awareness of an often under-addressed sphere of power dynamics between women and men.
The brief is based [...]
