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Missing Girls...Missing Women
Ads screaming "Girl or Boy?" are banned in India. Major internet search engines Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have been put on notice to ensure that they do not provide advertising platforms for sex-determining technology.
Read more...Gender: The Missing Component in the response to Climate Change
This report analyses the gender dimension of climate change and the policies enacted to mitigate and adapt to its impacts with the aim of developing gender-sensitive approaches with regards to mitigation measures, adaptation projects, and national regimes.
Read more...Reclaiming Rights and Resources
This 34-page report, published by CARE, presents 7 case studies from across Africa that focus on three types of threatened environmental resources: land, forests, and water.
Read more...Senator Brownback Says Other Senators Aren't "Real" Catholics
How did a US Senator end up signing a letter condemning some of his Senate colleagues as bad Catholics?
Read more...Bearers of change
When I began to speak publicly of finding equality and justice in Islam 20 years ago, a common response was "why bother?"
Read more...Gender and Climate Change: Mapping the Linkages - A Scoping Study on Knowledge and Gaps
The issue of climate change is not new, but its take-up as a key development concern is a fairly recent departure. Even more recent is the integration of a gender-sensitive perspective in climate change research and responses.
Read more...The Human Rights of Women
Today, women’s rights and gender equality are protected in several international and regional treaties, acknowledging that women’s rights are indeed human rights — human rights subject to specific challenges, biases and threats. But how, if at all, has this rights discourse informed and improved our activism, practice, and lived realities?
Read more...Working with Men for Women's Rights
Ways and Means, No.2. February 2004
Globally, we are faced with a situation where a rise in militarism, fundamentalisms, poverty and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, amongst other issues, threaten women’s rights. Given the current state of the world’s women, and despite the excellent work done by many feminists around the world, there is an urgent need to be creative, to be strategic and to re-evaluate how we can strengthen our efforts to protect the rights of women and bring about gender equality.
Read more...An Advocacy Guide for Feminists
Ways and Means, No.1. December 2003
Doing advocacy in a feminist way would imply infusing advocacy strategies with feminist values. It would seek to advance women’s rights and address the effects of policies, laws, corporate behaviour and other processes on the lives of women around the world.
Read more...Nanotechnology
‘Nanotechnology’ literally means technology that is very small. One nanometer is onebillionth of a meter or the width of about 5 atoms.‘Nanotechnology’ refers to technology that takes place at this very tiny, sub-atomic level in robotics, chemistry, physics, information and communication technology, and molecular biology. Why is nanotechnology so revolutionary? Because at the nano-scale all matter is the same. All things, both living and non-living, are
constructed of atoms.