Full Coverage: Gender

30.12.2005 To ensure women's active participation in the knowledge society, it is essential that they are cosulted and such strategies devised that would integrate them fully into ICT projects and the IT sector.

30.12.2005 The Women in IT(WINIT) team is organising a one day one day international and interdisciplinary conference to discuss the under-representation of women in ICT workplaces at the University of Salford, UK on 21st March, 2006.

30.12.2005 Now religious and spiritual leaders would be brought together to focus on the alarming fall in the child sex ratio in Rajasthan. Agencies working in the field planned to involve religious and spiritual leaders of Jains, Jats, Sikhs, Rajputs, Gurjars and Muslim community as they attain a powerful hold in their community and bestow upon the community a voice and the presence in the larger societal framework.

29.12.2005 In this article Kady Souley Boncano shares her experience of how radio made her a star in her country in a week's time. She describes the changes Niger has undergone in last few years and the way radio has affected women's life in Niger.

29.12.2005 In an ambitious worldwide 2004-05 research initiative called "The World at Work," Patricia Shafer and her colleague Dr. Barbara Trautlein discovered more similarity than difference across geography, industry and gender based on interviews with multinational managers on five continents and spanning the organisational Value Chain.

29.12.2005 The conference, titled “Taking the Lead…In the Digital Age: San Diego,” is intended to help professional and entrepreneurial women in the biosciences, life sciences and high-tech fields exchange ideas and opportunities.

Women in Technology International WITI), a leading professional organisation for tech-savvy women in USA, is organising this conference on February 13-14 at the Hilton Torrey Pines Hotel in La Jolla, CA.

27.12.2005 UN Secretary-Generals, 1945-2006: 3 Europeans, 2 Africans, 1 Latin American, 1 Asian, 0 Women.

27.12.2005 Managing director of Parwaz Microfinance Institute Katrin Fakiri said that institutions of microfinance would greatly affect business of the usurers and would also help in protecting women from forced marriages.

26.12.2005 This book, a UNESCO publication for the World Summit on Information Society, proposes the full integration of gender issues into technology analyses, policy development and programme design.

26.12.2005 Al Jazeera Media Training and Development Centre (Doha, Qatar) is currently conducting a UNESCO-supported two-week training programme on TV Journalism and TV Reporting for twelve Palestinian women journalists.

23.12.2005 When Dil Bhushan Pathak, a popular newscaster in Nepal, was reading the news one night, he came across an item that caused him to skip a heartbeat. In the remote Achham district in far-western Nepal, a woman had died a painful death. She was undergoing a clandestine abortion using a traditional method - the insertion of a heated rod smeared with herbal paste into the uterus.

20.12.2005 Representatives of Iskorak, Kontra associations and the Croatian Women Network expressed their disapproval of the composition of the Commission on Health Education of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, and the approach the implementation of sexual education in Croatia.

20.12.2005 Women Power Connect, a women's organisation, has decided to force the elected representatives and policy makers to make changes in government policies in favour of women and strictly implement the existing laws.

19.12.2005 Agency for Gender Equality of BiH, of the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will organize the first Gender Equality Week (Gender Week) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, taking place from 19th until 22nd December, 2005.

18.12.2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 19 (OneWorld) - A report released by Amnesty International Wednesday criticized the Russian government for doing little to stop the annual killing of some 14,000 women by family members--a problem fueled by alcoholism and economic hardship, according to experts.

15.12.2005 Some 14,000 Russian women die each year at the hands of their partners or family members. Part of Amnesty's Stop Violence Against Women campaign, a new report highlights the weak legal protections and lack of services available for victims of violence.

15.12.2005 Nearly 600,000 Sri Lankan women work as domestic servants in other countries. However, the lure of substantial earnings and freedom from povery leaves their children vulnerable to child abuse, incest and other expolitation. Dumeetha Luthra for BBC News, Colombo...

14.12.2005 With a toddler son in her arms, Uma Preman, a 25-year-old undergraduate, set out to fill a gap on account of which she had lost her husband to turberculosis. On August 4, 1996, Santhi Medical Information Centre (SMIC) was set up in the temple town of Guruvayur in Thrissur, Kerala. Till date, it is a one-stop centre dispensing information on doctors and hospitals the world over - John Mary reports for Outlook.

14.12.2005 Gender groups in Tajikistan will receive US $100,000 in assistance in 2006 from the United Nations to improve implementation of legislation aimed at curbing violence against women.

14.12.2005 For 22 years MADRE has affected change and improved the lives of women around the world; now you can find out who inspires them! To celebrate their birthday, MADRE is showcasing a portrait gallery of young women working for human rights and justice around the world. Nominate one for display at the U.N. during Women's Month in March 2006.