Full Coverage: Gender

27.10.2006 Dr.Anjana Maitra explores ways in which Information Communication Technology tools can be used to facilitate behavioural change communication for safe motherhood. This paper was presented at a Consultation and Experience Sharing on Safe Motherhood at BITS, Pilani on September 8-9 2006.

27.10.2006 Even as Imrana receives justice from the court after being raped by her father-in-law in an Uttar Pradesh village, another woman in Bihar awaits the court's verdict.

27.10.2006 More than a year after Imrana, a Muslim woman from a western UP village, defied clerics and village elders and complained that she had been raped by her father-in-law, a Muzaffarnagar district court today sentenced the accused, Ali Mohammed, to ten years in prison, holding him guilty of rape and criminal intimidation.

26.10.2006 The much-awaited law against domestic violence comes into force on October 26, 2006. Touted as a “landmark” pro-women legislation, the Protection of Women Against Domestic Violence Act, 2005 seeks to address issues linked to status of women within their homes that often gets pushed under the carpet.

23.10.2006 The WomenÂ’s Rights Center in Armenia, the Secretariat of the International Consortium for Domestic Violence, has the pleasure to announce about the organization of the Second International Conference on Domestic Violence, which will take place in Yerevan, Armenia, on December 4-6, 2006.

19.10.2006 Centre for Women Studies announces the opening of enrolment for the new Women Studies programme. The enrolments term starts on October 19 and will end on October 27, 2006. Candidates will be received between 17:00 and 20:00 hours, every weekday, at the Centre for Women Studies in Zagreb (Berislaviceva 12).

17.10.2006 The VESTA association from Tuzla started the implementation of its “Campaign for respect of Rights of Children and Women through the K.R.I.K. (Campaign Development and Implementation Coordinator)” project. The project aims to secure the establishment of an advocacy platform for the rights of vulnerable groups of citizens and raise the public awareness in B&H about their needs.

16.10.2006 Udruženje VESTA iz Tuzle je počelo realizaciju projekta "Kampanja za poštivanje prava djece i žena u BiH putem mreže K.R.I.K (Koordinatora za Razvoj i Implementaciju Kampanja)". Cilj projekta je obezbjeđivanje platforme za zagovaranje prava osjetljivih grupa građana i podizanje svijesti javnosti o njihovim potrebama u Bosni i Hercegovini.

13.10.2006 Provoked by the fact that, 15 years after the start of wars in former Yugoslavia, no information has been presented on war crimes committed in the name of Serbia, Women in Black started the Women Ask action, to ask the authorities to bring the information on those crimes to the light of the day.

13.10.2006 The courts tend to take an insensitive stand on the multiple, and often contradictory, versions of victims/survivors of gender violence – whether it’s Zaheera Sheikh of the Best Bakery case or a woman widowed in the 1984 riots. Surely the trauma of the individual concerned should be taken into consideration?

13.10.2006 In the Asia-Pacific region, girls' labour, official and unofficial, continues to constitute a major obstacle to accelerating progress towards achieving gender parity and equality in primary and secondary education by 2015. This policy brief summarises the causes and consequences of girls' child labour on their educational opportunities and describes some of the instruments and strategies in place to reduce girls' labour.

12.10.2006 The gay.hr portal reports that a group of queer activists decorated Zadar, on Tuesday night, with rainbow ribbons, thus marking October 11, the International Coming Out Day.

10.10.2006 Condemning widespread global violence against women as a human rights violation, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for more political will and financial resources to fight the scourge says Annan.

10.10.2006 A 113-page landmark U.N. study on gender violence says women continue to be victims of sexual harassment, human trafficking and blatant discrimination worldwide.

10.10.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 (OneWorld) - Afghan women's groups are calling for major changes from their government after the murder of a well-known female official in the southern province of Kandahar.

09.10.2006 Indian WomenÂ’s Credit Fund Organisation (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) seeks a consultant for preparation of its expansion plan in the 11th Five Year Plan and beyond.

06.10.2006 Recente informe da organização Anistia Internacional revela novos indícios de que as autoridades do Estado do México não só não têm investigado seriamente as acusações das mulheres de San Salvador Atenco

05.10.2006 KARACHI, Oct 5 (IPS) - She is in the news again. This time appearing in a documentary film ‘Shame', that tells her tale of being ordered gang-raped as retributive punishment by a village council.