- Monday Dec 21,2009 01:39 PM
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The CEDAW is made up of 16 substantial and 14 procedural articles. It is a surprisingly significant convention because it deliberately goes beyond conventional equality approaches and puts forward “positive measures” to promote women, and contains active political and legal steps towards gender equality. See WIDE information and analysis (pdf format). See also WIDE - CEDAW Campaign and Blog .
- Wednesday Dec 16,2009 03:42 PM
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Source : Gender Action - Gender Action announces the publication of its fourth “Gender Action Link”, Gender, the IFIs and Debt, which highlights how International Financial Institution debt exacerbates the feminization of poverty and undermines gender equality. The Link specifically examines typical gender impacts of IFI loan conditions on female workers such as an increase in the amount of care-work for women and the exclusion of poor women and girls from essential health services. (more…)
- Thursday Dec 10,2009 01:05 PM
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Are women passively waiting for policymakers to decide their fate with respect to access to ICTs? “No” says Helen Hambly Odame, Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Design & Rural Development at the University of Guelph in Canada. She writes, “Women are not ‘waiting’ for access to ICTs, but rather using ICTs when they are available to get around the constraints they face in politics, society and economy.” See full text
- Thursday Nov 12,2009 03:00 PM
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October 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…)
- Tuesday Sep 15,2009 05:33 PM
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The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution that takes the next step in the process of creating the new women’s rights entity at the U.N. In the text below are the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) talking points on the passage of the resolution. (more…)
- Monday Mar 23,2009 06:44 PM
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Young Egyptian women are using blogs and online radio stations to beat the censors and to fight for equality. Despite making up only 24% of the workforce in Egypt, 30% of women use the internet. Source BBC. See more
