Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category
People Opposing Women Abuse: 2010 Women’s Writing Project
Saturday, September 4th, 2010
Closing date: 1 October 2010.
People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA), an NGO whose main purpose is to create a safer society that does not tolerate violence against women, and where women
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Tags: Prizes/Awards/Funding
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Sweeping Support Sought for Domestic Workers’ Rights
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
“My male employer was a womaniser and he liked to touch me and told me not to tell his wife. I felt so uncomfortable,” says Chompoo, who was just 15
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Executive Coordinator: the Committee for Asian Women
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Location: Bangkok, Thailand.
Closing date: 30 September 2010.
The Committee for Asian women (CAW) which is an Asia regional women workers NGO based in Bangkok undertakes projects and programs for women workers
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Tags: Job Opportunities
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Housing Rights & the Right to the City in Latin America
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
This special edition on gender and housing explores the crisis of women in Latin America who can’t escape homes where they suffer abuse because they are economically dependent on their
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“Women Are the First to Cook & the Last to Eat”
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Three hundred women from more than 30 countries converged in Canada last weekend for the Montreal International Women’s Conference 2010 (MIWC), with the aim of building a global militant women’s
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Australia’s National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The Gillard Labor Government has released the 2010 National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children, which is intended to bring the efforts of all service systems together
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Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Improving the health of adolescent girls in the developing world is the key to improving maternal and child health, reducing the impact of HIV, and accelerating social and economic development.
‘Start
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Gender Equality Needs to be ‘Front & Centre’
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Gender equality is still not ‘front and centre’ in national development planning and financing, nor does it feature in high-level discussions on regional co-operation and development in the Pacific.
Speaking on
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