Full Coverage: Gender

02.11.2009 A Harvard-led team of experts is establishing a Global Task Force to address the global breast cancer epidemic.

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.

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.

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

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

23.08.2009 Is a gender perspective a major omission from the UN climate negotiations or is this just another special interest lobby? Choike

02.08.2009 Checklist of the main medical causes of death in childbirth in the developing world. Global Health

19.07.2009 Are single issue donor initiatives the right answer for critical health problems such as maternal health? Global Health

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

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

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

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.

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.

08.03.2009 Mothers, wives, widows and daughters of Iraq remain caught in the grip of a silent emergency, a new survey shows.

07.03.2009 “In Afghanistan”, says the ad for Afghan Star, “you risk your life to sing.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.