Issues and Analysis
UN Women's Treaty weakend by slew of reservations
A landmark UN treaty on women’s rights, which will be 30 years old next week, is in danger of being politically undermined by a slew of reservations by 22 countries seeking exemptions from some of the convention’s legal obligations.
Read more...The pitfalls of monitoring and evaluation: Do current frameworks really serve us?
A summary of Part I “Capturing change in women’s realities: The challenges of monitoring and evaluating our work” a paper by Srilatha Batliwala* and Alexandra Pittman.**
Read more...How are women faring in Macedonia?
A nation of just over 2 million people in the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe, Macedonia has experienced much turbulence since declaring independence from (the former) Yugoslavia in 1991 and a civil war in 2001. Now, nearly a decade later, the country seeks membership in the European Union, faces the growing influence of religious groups, and struggles with the economic crisis that has wreaked havoc worldwide. Gjuner Nebiu of Antico, a women’s civic initiative and interethnic network of leaders from the NGO movement in Macedonia, discusses how women are faring there today.
Read more...Congolese lady revolutionizes journalism to promote women's rights
Thirty-one-year-old Chouchou Namegabe is revolutionizing journalism in her native country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the face of a patriarchal countrywide mindset, a small amount of funding, and even death threats to herself and her team.
Read more...Q&A: Gender Missing in Climate Agreements
Sabina Zaccaro interviews IUCN gender advisor Lorena Aguilar Revelo
Read more...AIDS in South Africa: Women, the Church, and Global Indifference
The AIDS epidemic is a justice issue, not a moral one, theologian Beverley Haddad explains—in the face of overwhelming challenges, there is no room for regressive moralizing from religious leaders.
Read more...USA: Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard
Still sexually confused (but not gay) ex-megapastor Ted Haggard is preaching again—and his old friends, James Dobson among them, are not happy about it. Forgiveness only goes so far, apparently, in the world of far-right evangelicalism.
Read more...British homophobia's African problem
Plans for a viciously homophobic law in Uganda are opening up divisions among anti-gay Christian groups in Britain. Symon Hill writes on how the studied silence of some conservative British Christians is revealing their true colours.
Read more...Southern Africa: Safe motherhood for disabled women
Men and women with disabilities face many challenges in Southern Africa, especially related to discrimination and access to services. For many women, this also means that they face challenges when accessing health care services at one of the times when it is most important – when they are pregnant.
Read more...Zimbabwe: Women's rights concerns
What is the situation of women in Zimbabwe?
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