By Heather Brady - Photographs by Luján Agusti April 30, 2018 - At the southernmost tip of South America, a group of women are working together to keep alive their cultural tradition of spinning and weaving wool for clothing. These women call themselves hilanderas del fin de mundo, or “spinners at the end of the world,” and they spin, stain, and . Learn More
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Advocating for Girls’ Education: Why We Need Data
Current data tell us that girls remain at a disadvantage in low-income countries. By Tanya Guyatt, 60 Million Girls Foundation – March 6, 2018 This was also published by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) International Women’s Day on March 8 is a time for reflection on the successes that women and girls around the world have made in . Learn More
“Breaking Glass Ceilings:” Reflections on Women’s Leadership – Helen Clark
By Helen Clark – Former New Zealand Prime Minister & UNDP Administrator – Now on the Board of Women Deliver “Breaking the Glass Ceilings: reflections on the future of women’s leadership.” 16 March 2018 - My thanks go to the Asian Development Bank for inviting me to be the Distinguished Gender Month Speaker for 2018. My topic . Learn More
USA – Ten Years of Research on Women in the Workplace
Direct Link to Full 34-Page Report: WOMEN MATTER 2016 – REINVENTING THE WORKPLACE TO UNLOCK THE POTENTIAL OF GENDER . Learn More
Roma Women: Rising Above Discrimination + Roma Info
“Change Can Start from Us!”- Roma Women in Italy Fight for Their Rights Claudia Torrisi - 16 August 2017 A new generation of Roma women is rising up against multiple forms of discrimination, to claim their rights to jobs, education, and healthcare. From her small sewing workshop in Isernia, in the centre of Italy, Concetta Sarachella designs . Learn More
Afghanistan – MPs & Activists Welcome Law Against Harassment of Women & Children – Call for Implementation
The approval of ‘the law on prohibition and prevention of harassment against women and children’ was welcomed by human rights activists and parliament’s human rights and women’s affairs commission. The law has three chapters and 29 articles which is aimed to end women and children harassment in the country. The law was approved a year ago by . Learn More
Women & Mental Health
Destigmatizing mental illness and opening paths to recovery for rural women, for all women. Mental illness is directly linked to poverty as well as gender-related issues such as child marriage, low social status, lack of education and physical abuse April 17, 2018 - By Kaitlin Drape Mental illness is a major global issue which requires more . Learn More
Rohingya Woman Leader & Advocate Statement at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Sexual Violence in Conflict
I am a Rohingya lawyer, researcher, and educator specializing in trauma, mass rape, and trafficking of Rohingya girls and women. I have been working directly with Rohingya women and girls in the refugee camps in Bangladesh since 2014. As a senior researcher, I have worked with Kalandan Press on a few reports. I am coordinator of the Free Rohingya . Learn More
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Text – Ratification – Reservations – Women & Girls with Disabilities
https://treaties.un.org/doc/source/docs/A_RES_61_106-E.pdf The Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (SCRPD) falls within the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). . Learn More
Bangladesh – The HERrespect Study to Address Violence Against Female Garment Workers – Intimate Partner Violence & Workplace Violence
This study is novel as it focuses not only on IPV(intimate partner violence), but also on workplace violence. Studies have shown that female workers face both forms of violence [18], but these are rarely discussed together in literature, nor programmed for simultaneously, despite being driven by similar dynamics of gender inequalities and attempts . Learn More
Syrian Women in a Turkish Border Town Empower Each Other with Language & Vocational Skills
A vocational training center is helping Syrian refugees build new lives in the peaceful Turkish border town of Kilis, but more funding is needed to keep it going. Women smile at the Kareemat community center in Kilis, Turkey, in this picture posted on Facebook. By Tara Kangarlou - April 12, 2018 KILIS, Turkey — On March 24, the Turkish army . Learn More
EU – Gender Equality in the EU’s Digital & Media Sectors
By EP Members' Research Service ⋅ March 6, 2018 ⋅ Written by Martina Prpic, Rosamund Shreeves and Giulio Sabbatti As the ‘digital revolution’ expands into more areas of our lives, from the way we work, to how we consume, look after our health, learn and take part in politics, it is increasingly clear that this is not just a purely technical – or . Learn More
Mauritania – Human Slavery Persists Even Though Illegal – Women & Girls – Many Born Into Slavery
MAURITANIA FAILING TO TACKLE PERVASIVE SLAVERY – AFRICAN UNION January 29, 2018 - The African Union has reprimanded Mauritania for failing to take action against widespread slavery within its borders and ordered the government to give financial compensation to two child slaves who were failed by its legal system. The landmark ruling is the first . Learn More
Nigeria – Preventing Boko Haram Abductions of Schoolgirls in Nigeria
Four years after the abductions in Chibok, and months after more kidnappings in Dapchi, over 100 schoolgirls are still missing. Nigeria must act to make schools safe – beefing up security, learning from past mistakes and, ultimately, working to end the Boko Haram insurgency. 12 April 2018 - In February, a faction of the jihadist Boko Haram . Learn More
CSW 62 Women’s Perspectives on Why They Came & What They Take Back
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown Voices from CSW62 March 28, 2018 - More than 4,300 civil society representatives from 130 countries participated in the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62), which focused this year on rural women and girls. Why do they come and what do they take back with them from this UN meeting? Here are . Learn More
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