The Spirit Aligned Indigenous Women Leadership Program The eight Indigenous women Elders are acknowledged and celebrated for being vessels of their traditional ways and for leading in sustaining and creating legacies of strength and resilience for their own people, for all Native peoples and for all of humanity. We honor their gift of ancestral . Learn More
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Why 2018 Must Be the Year for Women to Thrive
What opportunities will 2018 bring for women? Image: REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci Christine Lagarde - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Erna Solberg - Prime Minister of Norway, Office of the Prime Minister of Norway 19 January 2018 - The need for greater respect and opportunities for women is becoming an ever more prominent . Learn More
Working Group on Girls Statement to CSW 62-2018 – Girls: Breaking Barriers
http://girlsrights.org/wp/who-we-are The Working Group on Girls (WGG) is a coalition of over 75 national and international non-governmental organizations with representation at the United Nations dedicated to promoting the human rights of the girl child in all areas and stages of her life, advancing the inclusion and status of girls . Learn More
UN Special Rapporteur on Promotion & Protection of Human Rights While Countering Terrorism – GA Report – Gender
Direct Link to the Full 13-Page 2017 Report: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Terrorism/A_72_43280_EN.pdf Mainstreaming Gender in the Discharge of the Mandate The Special Rapporteur is deeply committed to fully integrating a sustained and meaningful gender analysis in all aspects of her mandate. Terrorism typically does not . Learn More
Africa – Women Are Pivotal to Addressing Hunger, Malnutrition & Poverty
Photo: UN Photo/Albert González Farran A child has a meal at a food distribution centre in the Rwanda camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), near Tawila, North Darfur. More than 8,000 women and children living in the camp benefit from nutrition programmes run by the World Food Programme (WFP). Article By Lakshmi Puri – 13 October . Learn More
Saudi Arabia – Challenges But Progress & Empowerment for Girls in Sports
SOURCE MONA ALZUBAIR SAUDI ARABIA – CHALLENGES BUT PROGRESS & EMPOWERMENT FOR GIRLS IN SPORTS July 30, 2017 - A decade and a half into Lina Al Maeena’s fight for women’s sports in Saudi Arabia — the Education Ministry announced that physical education classes in public schools will begin this fall. “It’s a big, big deal,” Al Maeena tells OZY. . Learn More
Ukraine – Women’s Memory & Identity – Photos + CEDAW Committee 2017 Ukraine Review
A number of Ukrainians who participated in the project kept detailed family records and had carefully preserved hundreds of photographs. Alla Husarova, a Kyiv-based journalist, traces much of her family history back to the village of Bilky in the Vinnitsya region. Her grandmother, Lesia Babukha (bottom left), pictured here as a schoolgirl, spent . Learn More
UN Women & The World Bank Unveil New Data Analysis on Women & Poverty
More women than men live in poverty, but the incidence of poverty differs by age, marital status, household composition and other factors. For the first time, UN Women and the World Bank have analyzed household survey data for 89 countries by sex, age, household composition and other relevant variables to better understand the profile of the poor. . Learn More
Equatorial Guinea – Women’s Empowerment Challenges – Oil & Mineral Riches, but Few Benefit
Low rates in the labor force, poverty, discrimination and gender-based violence are just some of the adversities that women living in the Central African nation of Equatorial Guinea still face today. However, in the last five years, the government recognized some of these issues and agreed to develop new plans for women’s empowerment in Equatorial . Learn More
Fostering Women’s Empowerment & Leadership – UNESCO
Direct Link to Full 138-Page 2017 UNESCO Publication: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/BSP/GENDER/PDF/30_June_Publication_final_02.pdf Women’s Empowerment and Sustainable Development > The Power of Women’s and Girls’ Education > Women, Peace and Security Breaking Gender . Learn More
Close the Digital Gender Gap – REACT: Rights, Education, Access, Content, & Targets
Women’s Rights Online (WRO) is a research and advocacy network that aims to drive women’s empowerment through the web. The network is an initiative of the Web Foundation, and currently comprises women’s rights and digital rights groups across 14 developing countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America, working to bridge the gender gap in . Learn More
USA – Divergence on Gender Differences & Roles – Research
USA - On Gender Differences, No Consensus on Nature vs. Nurture December 5, 2017 - Americans say society places a higher premium on masculinity than on femininity. By Kim Parker, Juliana Menasce Horowitz & Renee Stepler Twenty-five years after the release of the bestseller “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus,” the debate over . Learn More
Schools – Places Of Violence, & To Prevent Violence, Against Girls
By Pierre Bremond - 30/11/2017 There is evidence that the education of women and girls has a positive impact on economic, social, cultural and public health development, particularly in developing countries. When women are educated, they become empowered to participate in family decision-making and community life; they are better prepared to . Learn More
Violence Against Women: Unacceptable & Unmeasured
By Yu-Chieh Hsu, Statistics Analyst, and Milorad Kovacevic, Chief Statistician, at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP 22 November 2017 - One third of women—and more than two-thirds in some countries—have experienced physical or sexual violence inflicted by an intimate partner or sexual violence inflicted by a non-partner, according to the . Learn More
Euromed Feminist Initiative – Declaration of the Euro-Med Women’s Rights Civil Society Conference
Video: http://www.efi-ife.org/# Declaration: http://www.efi-ife.org/declaration-euro-med-women%E2%80%99s-rights-civil-society-conference 8 November 2017 - Since the first Ministerial Conference in Istanbul 2006, the UfM Ministerial Process on strengthening the role of women in society has been approached by civil society as one of the . Learn More
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