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Beijing15October 31, 2009 - At the NGO CSW Roundtable meeting on the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) review of the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action women gathered to develop recommendations that reflected the needs and experiences of women in the region. The two day NGO meeting took place in Geneva from October 30-31, 2009 and focused on “the challenges of gender equality in the context of the economic and financial crisis.” (more…)

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  • Saturday May 23,2009 11:26 AM
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Nine-year-old boy organises gay marriage rally

ethanmcnameeAfter overhearing that a same-sex couple in his neighbourhood couldn’t get married, nine-year-old Ethan McNamee decided to organise a gay rights rally.

The third-grader, from Denver, got the idea after hearing anti-gay insults in the playground and learning that his friend’s two mothers were not allowed to marry. (more…)

Transforming the world in crisis

  • Thursday Apr 2,2009 01:10 PM
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The world in crisis - 2009 Prague Conference
PRAGUE, NGO DECLARATION - 1 April 2009

We, participants of the conference The World In Crisis: Economies and Policies for Global Transformation have discussed for three days in Prague the root causes, impacts and responses to the financial crises, economic meltdown, climate change, mismanagement of natural resource use, increasing inequity and volatile food and oil prices from the systemic perspective of the world’s poor and vulnerable. (more…)

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