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Questionnaire: Book on Men and Gender Equality
Independent consultant and writer, Nikki van der Gaag, has been working for a number of years on global gender issues. She is looking to bring together women's rights and masculinities in a book on men and gender equality.
Read more...‘I help women to be effective leaders in post-conflict situations’
Hope Chigudu is a Uganda-based human rights campaigner, founding member of the Zimbabwe Resources Centre and Network (ZRCN) and has also been a gender and development advisor to the UN’s Industrial Development Organisation.
Read more...Lancet Special Issue: Women Deliver Conference
The special themed issue coincides with the third Women Deliver conference. The studies published in the themed issue use different methods to show the multidimensional nature of reproductive health and the influence of social determinants and health systems.
Read more...A Salvadoran at Risk Tests Abortion Law
Beatriz spends her days in a hospital room, anxiously watching her belly grow. Her doctors say she is inching along a high-risk pregnancy that could ultimately kill her, fraught with risks caused by lupus and other complications.
Read more...Academic Conference (Guildford, United Kingdom)
When?
September, 11, 2013
Where?
University of SurreyRegister
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Kenya: Death threats and intimidatory acts against leaders of Mwea Foundation
On 25 May 2013, a meeting of the Mwea Foundation, a grassroots organisation of rice farmers in the Mwea constituency, was interrupted by the deputy governor for Kirinyaga county, who called people out of the meeting, reportedly to ask how the organisation was funding itself.
Read more...Namibian Women Missing On Rights
While Namibia has put in place a strong legal framework to address the various forms of gender-based violence and sexual exploitation, ineffective implementation prevents Namibian women from enjoying their rights to life, security of person and bodily integrity, a United Nations report on ‘Extreme Poverty and Human Rights' in Namibia has found.
Read more...Soybeanland Stands Up to Monsanto
In Argentina, a group of women calling themselves the “Mothers of Ituzaingó” are fighting against the spraying of Monsanto pesticide Roundup.
Read more...Russia: What Does the Pussy Riot Case Tell Us about the Status of Women’s Human Rights In Russia?
The winter of 2011 and spring of 2012 in Russia bore witness to a series of anti-regime protest actions against the fraudulent conduct of the Parliamentary and Presidential elections that resulted in the re-election of Putin as President for a third term.
Read more...UK: Comment: Abortion and conscientious objection: what about human rights?
Doogan and Wood v. NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board [2013] CSIH 36 – read judgmenthere and Alasdair Henderson’s commentary here
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