Full Coverage: Gender

30.11.2006 Under the “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” campaign, the Anima Centre for Women and Peace Studies from Kotor sent an open letter to the Montenegrin Parliament, Government, political parties, the Parliamentary Committee on Gender Equality and the Office of Gender Equality, with the demand that the status of women as constitutional part of the state body is confirmed in the preparation of the new Constitution of Montenegro.

29.11.2006 NEW YORK, Nov 29 (OneWorld) - Joining others in the ongoing international campaign against gender violence, women's groups in the United States stepped up pressure on Congress this week to endorse a proposed law that would protect women in poor countries.

28.11.2006 Gender equality has emerged as an important social issue in Albania. This is reflected by the new masterÂ’s programme on gender and development now offered at Tirana University.

27.11.2006 Concerned over the little space that common people and the civil society get in the budget-making process in India they have formed an alliance to advocate for more people-centric budgets. Over 100 activists, academics, number of government and community women from different states assembled at New Delhi on November 27 and 28th for a consultation on peopleÂ’s budget and to strengthen this initiative

27.11.2006 The Union of Women Organizations of Macedonia – SOZM is involved, once again, in the “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” Global Campaign, which is implemented for 2006 under the motto “Violence has Many Faces!” The 2006 campaign is implemented by the SOS Phone for the Youth working with the National Women Council of the Republic of Macedonia.

27.11.2006 On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women, the Dalit Networks around the globe orgainsed International Conference to discuss the issues of discrimination and violence against more than 100 million Dalit women in South Asia. Dalit women from South Asia are determined to ‘’transform their pain into power’’ and the Hague Declaration on the Human Rights and Dignity of Dalit women’’ the participants urged the governments of Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as well as the international community to support their struggle.

22.11.2006 The CURE Foundation brings the 16 Days Campaign, created and implemented by groups from the whole world in order to increase visibility of violence against women as human rights violation, to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

22.11.2006 Substantial progress has been achieved in addressing the issue violence against women over the period. However, there is increased violence in societies today, and a continuing gap between political commitment and adequate resources. The key challenge that remains is to move the issue from awareness that it is a human rights violation and a crime, to making it socially unacceptable and counter to community norms.

22.11.2006 Government's proposal to "incentivise" ownership of property is seen as a bid to empower women in the hope that better economic status would make them less vulnerable to exploitation

21.11.2006 Being a mother of young children lowers her wage or salary. Barely anybody would disagree with this claim. But how large is the impact of motherhood on women's wages and salaries? Now a new study by the Finnish researcher Jenni Kellokumpu brings a new clarity to the issue. Motherhood's negative impact on the wages and salaries of mothers of young children is significant.

21.11.2006 Kampanju, koju od 1991. godine kreiraju grupe iz cijelog svijeta kako bi usmjerile pažnju ka povećanju vidljivosti nasilja nad ženama kao povredi ljudskih prava, u Bosnu i Hercegovinu donose CURE.

20.11.2006 The fellowship program will bring the successful applicant to the Law Faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo (www.law.buffalo.edu) for four months – the Fall 2007 term (beginning September – middle of December 2007).

19.11.2006 Under the auspices of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the Croatian Women Network organizes the “Forgotten Femicide” commemorative gathering, to be held in Zagreb, November 23, 2006.

16.11.2006 Lack of consideration and proper means are the main findings of a report on the situation of Municipal Officers for Gender Equality made public today by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

16.11.2006 When it comes to providing new possibilities for the outsourcing and offshoring of services, no one can beat us Indians. The proof of this comes from the latest form of such offshoring that is increasingly using India as the preferred location: the phenomenon of surrogate motherhood.

15.11.2006 DUSHANBE, Nov 15 (IPS) - Women have played important roles in rebuilding Tajikistan after the country's civil war of the 1990s. But women in this central Asian country still have many obstacles to overcome to reach equality with men, according to some local activists and international observers.

15.11.2006 TN Anuradha attends a novel workshop at the India Social Forum, which discusses innovative methods of training for community workers, through the use of magic tricks and other interesting activities.

13.11.2006 Eighty percent of incidents of violence against women take place within the family, and the media is mostly responsible for aggravating the situation, speakers at a workshop observed yesterday.

10.11.2006 Women don't seem to be doing too badly in India, when we consider just South Asia. India's gender-related development index (GDI) rank is 96 out of 177 countries, one of the best in the region if we do not count Sri Lanka, way ahead at rank 68. But, as always, the ranking hides more than it reveals about gender equality.

10.11.2006 The Autonomous Women Centre started the Start with Yourself series of workshops for university students, on the topics of violence in the family, partnership relationships and society.