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8/ 8/2008

EXPERTS are divided about the impact of a proposed new Muslim marriage contract being launched today in London with the backing of Ann Cryer MP, that would, claims one, give recognition to shariah law.

By Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, July 2006.

The United Nations is facing a sea change in coming months as Secretary-General Kofi Annan prepares to step down. July 9, 2006

Some thoughts drawn from history for the High-level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance, and the Environment. By Louis Emmerij and Richard Jolly, May 2006.

The recommendations from the Coherence Panel on reforming the UN's gender equality architecture incorporate many of the suggestions made by women's organizations and networks. January 2007.

The case for strengthening the UN operational system's structures and services to support countries to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment has grown increasingly stronger in the past year.

More than half the globe's people need their own UN agency: Stephen Lewis. By Olivia Ward, July 2006

This article presents how women have sought first, to institutionalize their concerns, then to assess, then to strengthen the institutions they create in order to make the UN more democratic and more effective.

Lobby. Analyze. Critique. Protest. Mobilize. Propose. Advocate. Participate. September 2005

AWID's Young Feminist Activism program seeks to build a multigenerational movement by amplifying the voices of young women so that their experiences and ideas are reflected in feminist discourse and activism.