Full Coverage: Gender

29.09.2006 Stockholm: Ruth Manorama a Dalit herself, 'for her commitment over Dalit women's causes, has bagged the 2006 Right Livelihood Award, better known as Alternate Nobel Prize, it was announced by Akob von Uexkull, the founder of the awards, during a ceremony at the Swedish Foreign Ministry's press room on Thursday.

28.09.2006 Meena Day 2006 was celebrated in Dhaka and around the country on Saturday September 23rd. The theme of Meena Day this year was: Chhele Meye bibhed nai, jonmo nibondhon shobar chai meaning 'Birth registration for all, be it a boy or girl' - to draw attention to the priority the Government of Bangladesh has attached to Universal Birth Registration by 2008.

25.09.2006 For around 15 days every year she adorns the starched colourful saree to attend the board meetings of her company. For the remaining part of the year she hoists the tea pluckers bag around her shoulders and resumes her duties as a worker in the largest participatory management tea company in the world.

22.09.2006 Since its inception in January 1984, The Faculty of Gender Studies at the National Institute of Rural Development has developed expertise on planning, management of women development programmes and self-help groups, issues relating to gender, entrepreneurship development, empowerment, etc. It conducts training, research and consultancy programmes regularly on these. The upcoming TOT is going to be held at NIRD, Hyderabad from 23-28th October, 2006.

19.09.2006 The Union of WomenÂ’s Organizations of Macedonia (UWOM) presented its Dictionary of Gender Terms in the Process of EU Integration, aimed to provide for the use of gender sensitive language and respect for equality between women and men.

15.09.2006 This "Open Access" Guide, released by the Beyond Access Project, is designed to help education and gender campaigners and coalitions work more effectively with the media to promote gender-equitable education.

13.09.2006 A 40-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly stripped in public and raped by three persons belonging to upper caste over on old land dispute at village Lohabasai in Madhya Pradesh, India.

10.09.2006 As I traveled to Shimelba refugee camp, I envisioned myself offering thousands of traumatized children hopes for the future in the form of an education. As I was to learn, however, it wasnÂ’t that simple.

09.09.2006 The PitchWise festival-the first BH festival of women's art will take place between in Sarajevo, September 14-17, 2006. This creative, one of a kind, BH venture is the result of a commitment and hard work of many volunteers affiliated with the Foundation CURE.

08.09.2006 Queer Belgrade invites you to the third “Malfunction”, festival that celebrates diversity and freedom of sexual expression and all people that fight the system. Performances, discussions, workshops, actions, parties, films, concerts, picnics will be organized during the four days of the Festival (October 12-15).

08.09.2006 In August 2006, the Q Association and CURE Foundation conducted a public opinion survey on treatment and implementation of the Law on Gender Equality in Election Platforms of B&H political parties running in the coming General Elections.

07.09.2006 Governments must do more to address the human rights violations and lack of opportunities that force women and girls, who make up half the worldÂ’s 95 million migrants, to leave their homes, while countries need to work together to make migration safer and in particular stamp out human trafficking, according to new reports issued today by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

07.09.2006 Dominican Republic women who migrated abroad to earn more money were empowered by their new roles as household breadwinners and decision-makers but were still expected to conform to traditional gender roles, according to a study released today by the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW).

07.09.2006 A 2004 survey by political scientists Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon found that key social indicators for Muslim women were more worrying than for other social groups. Examples exist of women who have broken away from the “compulsion of wearing long black robes” but the choice isn’t so easy for many others. Seema Chishti reflects in the Indian Express.

07.09.2006 Women constitute almost half of all global migrants worldwide — 95 million or 49.6 per cent — yet, it is only recently that the international community has begun to recognise their contribution to the economy and social well-being of populations living in both the origin and receiving countries and the challenges women confront in the new land.

05.09.2006 Amader Gram ICT for Development -- a non-government organisation (NGO), in collaboration with the International Breast Cancer Research Foundation (IBCRF) of Ohio State University, USA, is all set to launch an online service for the detection of breast cancer in Bagerhat district of Bangladesh from the second week of this month.

04.09.2006 India's landmark decision to send 125 female police officers - one complete specialized unit - to assist United Nations peacekeeping operations in Liberia next month is an "unprecedented" move that sends a message not only to other post-conflict countries about the importance of having women officers, but also to police contributing nations, senior UN officials.

04.09.2006 For the first time, a case of female infanticide has been reported from West Bengal.

04.09.2006 The Crime in India manual for 2005 compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has reinforced DelhiÂ’s image as a metro unsafe for women. The Capital has the highest rate of crime against women, 27.6 per lakh population, which is twice the national average of 14.2.

04.09.2006 The first Delhi Human Development Report says that despite being economically sound, Delhi lacks an adequate quality of life. Still, most households surveyed in the Indian capital said they preferred to stay here rather than anywhere else in the country.