Full Coverage: Gender

31.05.2006 Achievements of OSCE-supported projects aimed at increasing the participation of women in decision-making processes and bodies were discussed today in Skopje at the conference "Women Can Do It II-2006 Parliamentary Elections."

31.05.2006 WASHINGTON, DC, May 31 (OneWorld) - A dramatic shift of funds and priorities is needed to stem the tide of the global AIDS pandemic, said women's health advocates in Washington, DC last week, marking the 25th anniversary of the disease's discovery.

31.05.2006 Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) on May 23, 2006, demanded allocation of at least Tk 25 crore in the budget for 2006-07 for women entrepreneurship development. They also demanded tax holiday facility for up to 10 years for the women entrepreneurs.

31.05.2006 The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a landmark resolution, reserving for women 33 per cent of posts in all organs of the state and amending the "patriarchal" citizenship law.

31.05.2006 The worldÂ’s rural women can play a crucial role in efforts to restore drylands, according to a new study released by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) at a major UN conference on women and desertification being held in Beijing this week.

30.05.2006 The Central Board of Secondary Education would introduce scholarships for girl students and a slew of reforms from the coming year to make the examination more stress-free and help students perform better.

30.05.2006 The manner in which the court resolved the case of Neelam Ludhani has raised hopes that it could have a positive impact for the situation of women in Pakistan, irrespective of religion, aside from the signals it has sent out on the issue of conversions.

30.05.2006 The highly volatile Indian stock market may be giving sleepless nights to some, but more and more women investors, from grandmothers to college students and homemakers, are using it as an opportunity to enter the once exclusive male domain and take on the bulls and bears, reports PTI.

29.05.2006 In the village of Methinkot in Nepal, para-legal committees have been able to raise awareness on a wide range of women's issues. "Women are coming to us for solutions," says 34-year-old Chandra Khanel, one of 15 PLC members here.

29.05.2006 WomenÂ’s unpaid housework may be of critical importance in the determination of household wellbeing, but unfortunately it does not get as much recognition as paid work does. In order to get such recognition, many recent studies are advocating an inclusion of the imputed value of womenÂ’s unpaid work in the construction of national accounts (see, for example, Levy Institute-UNDP, 2005). Even if women were able to achieve official recognition of their work, still their bargaining power within the household would likely be lower than that of men if they are not able to make monetary contributions to the joint resources of the household.

27.05.2006 A residential school for girls, in the shadow of the peak of Nanda Devi, has been graduating confident young women from the girls of Kumaon hills. Run as per the ideas of Nai Taleem of Gandhiji, Lakshmi Ashram was set up by Sarlaben – a friend and follower of Gandhiji – in ~1964.

26.05.2006 The World Food Programme organised a walk global walk in 118 countries to deliver a strong message that child hunger has no place in the world and and citizens working together can root it out. Funds from the campaign will be used for helping pregnant women as well as school-going children.

26.05.2006 The country has achieved significant progress in some development activities and the trend of advancement would continue in future, said M Moniruzzaman Mia, commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

24.05.2006 In a far-reaching decision, the Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod for inclusion of the mother's name in all documents and certificates to be issued by any department of the State Government.

24.05.2006 Human trafficking remains a serious problem in South Asia, with 100,000 people sold every year, experts said at a U.N.-sponsored meeting in Kathmandu Monday.

24.05.2006 For the first time, the city police have arrested a woman for using the Internet to sell sexual services. The woman was picked up from a guest house in Jadavpur on Monday evening after an officer posed as a client.

20.05.2006 A former member of the National Commission for Women, Syeda Hameed records the powerlessness of the institution in her new book, They hang: Twelve women in my portrait gallery. Deepti Priya Mehrotra notes the chilling refusal of the system to defend women against atrocities.

19.05.2006 Farzana Chowdhury, a JCI Bangladesh Board member, has been selected to participate in 'Fortune/State Department International Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership' programme, says a press release.

19.05.2006 CARE Bangladesh, a humanitarian organisation, has trained four more female drivers and two auto mechanics, raising their number to 14 in one year, as part of its efforts to promote gender equity in its Transport Services Department (TSD), says a press release.
The graduation ceremony of the second batch apprentices and reception ceremony for 10 new apprentices of the third batch were held at the CARE TSD office at Karwan Bazar in the city on Tuesday.

18.05.2006 The contributors to Women and Information Technology look at reasons for the persistent gender imbalance in computing and explore some strategies intended to reverse the downward trend.