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The OneWorld Gender Topic Guide
The aim of this Guide is to provide a broad introduction to the subject of Gender, in the context of women's rights in developing countries
International Symposium: Breast cancer in the developing world - meeting the unforeseen challenge to women, health and equality
02.11.2009 A Harvard-led team of experts is establishing a Global Task Force to address the global breast cancer epidemic.
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Image: International Symposium: Breast cancer in the developing world - meeting the unforeseen challenge to women, health and equality
28.10.2009 Ending the needless death and suffering of women during pregnancy is one of the greatest moral, human rights and development challenges of our time, an international conference in Addis Ababa agreed.
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Related topics/regions: [Infant mortality] [Population]
28.10.2009 Iceland is the best place for women when it comes to gender equality, a position it claimed from Norway, which now finds itself on the third place.
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Related topics/regions: [Yemen] [Iceland]
20.09.2009 There are too many UN agencies campaigning for gender equality. The General Assembly has approved a resolution to merge them. UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service
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Related topics/regions: [United Nations]
01.09.2009 A major setback for gender campaigners as protests in Mali persuade the president to reject a new law improving the rights of women. BBC News
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Related topics/regions: [Mali] [Religion]
23.08.2009 Is a gender perspective a major omission from the UN climate negotiations or is this just another special interest lobby? Choike
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Related topics/regions: [Climate change]
02.08.2009 Checklist of the main medical causes of death in childbirth in the developing world. Global Health
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Related topics/regions: [Infant mortality]
19.07.2009 Are single issue donor initiatives the right answer for critical health problems such as maternal health? Global Health
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Related topics/regions: [Health] [Aid]
29.06.2009 Oxfam traces the lessons learned from a rare success in progressing legislative action against domestic violence in Africa. From Poverty to Power
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Related topics/regions: [Malawi] [Law] [Civil society]
30.05.2009 What sort of GM research would be pursued if the objective was to free up time for poor women farmers to do other things? Duncan Green inverts the debate. From Poverty to Power
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Related topics/regions: [Genetics] [Agriculture]
14.03.2009 Although this paper addresses Tanzania, it doubles up as a really clear exposition of the complex issues that frame this important subject. (pdf file) USAID
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Related topics/regions: [Tanzania]
Association of Women With Disability
10.03.2009 Disabled women are becoming more visible in Southeast Asia's disability movement and getting their voices heard. Kuhu Das, a disabled woman activist and director of the Association of Women with Disabilities in India, tells of her struggle and how a unique project is training disabled women to be new leaders.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [Disability]
Image: Association of Women With Disability
10.03.2009 Large majorities in most countries say they would like their government and the UN to take an active role in preventing discrimination against women, according to an international poll.
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Related topics/regions: [Human rights]
08.03.2009 Mothers, wives, widows and daughters of Iraq remain caught in the grip of a silent emergency, a new survey shows.
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From: ReliefWeb UN OCHA
Related topics/regions: [Iraq]
Children watching Afghan Star
07.03.2009 “In Afghanistan”, says the ad for Afghan Star, “you risk your life to sing.”
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From: OneWorld UK
Related topics/regions: [Afghanistan] [Culture] [Information & media]
Image: Children watching Afghan Star
05.03.2009 The pay gap between men and women worldwide may be as high as 22 per cent, rather than the 16.5 per cent figure taken from official government figures, according to a new report.
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Related topics/regions: [Labour]
Midwives in Huruma, Tanzania (Photo: White Ribbon Alliance)
04.03.2009 A film by five midwives and a doctor in Tanzania documenting the appalling conditions in which women have to give birth had remarkable effects: the government doubled the number of midwives trained each year and placed more midwives in rural areas. Brigid McConville tells the story.
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From: Healthlink Worldwide
Related topics/regions: [Tanzania] [Information & media] [Infant mortality]
Image: Midwives in Huruma, Tanzania (Photo: White Ribbon Alliance)
In Deepa Mehta’s 1996 film Fire, the protagonists undergo a literal trial by fire as they escape an oppressive, patriarchal household
02.03.2009 About 106,000 fire-related women's deaths occurred in a single year in India - far more than was reported by police, according to a report in the medical journal, The Lancet.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [Justice and crime]
Image: In Deepa Mehta’s 1996 film Fire, the protagonists undergo a literal trial by fire as they escape an oppressive, patriarchal household
05.01.2009 Syria has a thriving industry in the design and manufacture of imaginative women's lingerie. A new book "The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie" reveals much about women's freedom in the Arab world.
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Related topics/regions: [Syria] [Culture]
Screen Winchester
17.11.2008 As Bond fiddles with his mobile internet gadget in the latest movie, which OneWorld Guide would be given that magical half second of screen-time? The Gender Guide is an unlikely candidate, given the denial of violence against women in western culture.
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Related topics/regions: [North Korea] [Haiti]
Image: Screen Winchester
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