In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary
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The ability to engage with the media and get more people to learn about your perspective is an important piece of any advocate’s tool box.
The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC)
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A Project of Economica, this is a large-scale juried photography exhibition with over fifty extraordinary and moving works by artists across the globe celebrating women as economic participants and agents
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The US Department of State has this month released their 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report which outlines the continuing challenges across the globe, including in the United States.
The Report, for
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The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010 was launched in New York by the Secretary-General on 23 June 2010. The report, which presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the
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The impact of natural disasters is gendered and therefore responses to these disasters must be gender responsive.
Six months after the earthquake in Haiti MADRE’s Yifat Susskind spoke about the gendered
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The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women Annual Donor Report 2009 summarises the progress and results in implementing the UN Trust Fund Strategy 2005-2008, under which the Fund
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Amidst growing uncertainties in a globalised world, fundamentalist convictions have been gaining ground in many religions.
Whilst fundamentalism is multifaceted and rooted in different religious and cultural contexts, among the vast
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