Pacific Legislators to Advocate for Gender Equality
Recognising that violence against women is a human rights, development, economic, health, policing and family issue - the Pacific Legislatures for Population and Governance (PLPG) have appointed five national legislators as Champions for advocacy on gender issues in the Pacific.
The Chairperson of the PLPG Executive Committee, Hon Mapu Taia, [...]
Pacific Legislators to Advocate for Gender Equality
Women’s Rights: A Matter of Peace and Stability
Women’s Rights: A Matter of Peace and Stability
Women and girls still suffer excessively from conflicts and the lawlessness of post-conflict environments.
At the same time, women are far too often excluded from playing a role in maintaining, restoring, and defending stability.
NATO’s military authorities have developed guidelines for the integration of gender issues into NATO planning and [...]
Delivering solutions for girls and women Conference: Washington D.C.
Delivering solutions for girls and women Conference: Washington D.C.
Date: June 7-9, 2010.
The conference plans to focus on political, economic, social/cultural, and technological solutions.
This global meeting will expand on Women Deliver’s hallmark of exclusivity, reaching out to new partners and new communities.
With all these partners in one room, the aim is to further prove that maternal [...]
Gender Equality Research Fellowship: The European Roma Rights Centre
Gender Equality Research Fellowship: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC)
Location: Budapest, Hungary.
Deadline for applications: April 10, 2010.
The Gender Equality Research Fellowship is a new ERRC programme, introduced in 2010.
This programme will provide the opportunity for interested individual activists working at a local level in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, [...]
2010 Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Program, Hawaii
2010 Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Program
Women as Innovator Entrepreneurs: Generating Economic Growth and Job Creation
Program Dates: August 8 - August 19, 2010
Application Deadline: Thursday, April 1, 2010
The 2010 program will focus on the important role that innovative entrepreneurship plays in contributing to economic growth and job creation.
Innovators may generally be defined as those who have [...]
