Announcements
Statement: The Women's Working Group on Financing for Development: "Good but not Good Enough: Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Doha 2008"
December 02, 2008
The Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development welcomes the fact that the outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha goes far beyond the 2002 Monterrey Consensus with regard to gender equality. But this is not enough.
Read more...Statement: UN Experts warn on the ongoing crackdown of women's rights defenders in the Islamic Republic of Iran
November 27, 2008
“Over the past two years, women’s rights defenders have faced an increasingly difficult situation and harassment in the course of their non-violent activities in the defence of women’s rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” warned two UN human rights experts.
Read more...Change for Equality: RSF Jury Prize at the DW Weblog Awards
November 28, 2008
The website of Change for Equality, the site of the One Million Signatures Campaign has received the Reporters Without Borders Jury Prize of the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards-The BOBs.
Read more...Guttmacher Institute: World AIDS Day 2008-Still Time to Get PEPFAR Right
As the global community marks World AIDS Day on December 1, advocates and policy experts welcome the promise by the incoming Obama administration to put sound scientific evidence at the forefront of the U.S. global AIDS program (PEPFAR).
Read more...NGO Working Group on Women , Peace and Security: Letter to the UN Secretary General regarding the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
On November 24, 2008, the NGO Working Group (NGOWG) on Women, Peace and Security sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General regarding the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to ensure that specific concerns of women and girls are addressed.
Read more...The Rural Development Institute (RDI): RDI receives grant from Gates Foundation to Help Rural Women in India
November 19, 2008
Rural Development Institute received a $6.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand "micro-land ownership" and increase agricultural productivity for female laborers.
Statement: The G20 committed to save the global economy at the cost of women
On November 15, 2008 the Heads of State of the Group of 20 (G20) participated in an urgent Summit organized by the U.S Presidency to react to the current international financial crisis and to agree an action plan. The Heads of State of more than 170 countries were not invited, and the newly elected U.S President Barack Obama decided not to participate. Please consider signing the statement by November 26, 2008.
Read more...AWID Forum 2008 Coverage!
The 2008 AWID Forum took place in Cape Town, South Africa from November 14-17, 2008. On the AWID website (www.awid.org) you can find out more about sessions, access plenary reports, download images, read, watch and listen!
Read more...ANNOUNCEMENT: Challenging Fundamentalisms Selection Committee decisions on case study proposals
Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms: Learning from experience
Read more...Website: The African Platform for Adult Education
ANCEFA, FEMNET, PAALAE and PAMOJA made their appearance on the African scene, having a common struggle for quality education for all. These four African networks have decided to collaborate from a joint platform with a view to expressing their vision with a single voice so the African Platform for Adult Education was created in Dakar on 29th March 2008.
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