Full Coverage: Gender

31.01.2007 Dr. Rashad Zidan and the women of Iraq have been voted People of 2006 by OneWorlders across the planet.

25.01.2007 Bebac non-governmental organization launched a campaign to improve the status of pregnant women in Serbia, inviting the general public and the competent state institutions to respect the moral and civilized rules for treatment of pregnant women.

24.01.2007 The Association of Women Initiative (AWIN) and the Gender and Ethnicity Research Centre (Altera MB from Budapest, Hungary), will present on Thursday, January 25, the results of the sociological research - Gender Barometer in Serbia 2006: Social Position of Women and Men.

24.01.2007 Last week, the regional women portal www.ekviva.net was official launched. At the moment, the portal gathers information on women issues, as well as civil society topics, in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. It has an international editorial office with editors sitting in Zagreb, Split, Sarajevo, Tuzla and Belgrade.

23.01.2007 This analysis, prepared in late 2005, immediately after the adoption of the current National Information Society Strategy (NISP), attempt to identify the gender issues, obtain information and raise awareness on the gender dimension of Information and Communication Technologies.

23.01.2007 In this article, Lamija Kosovic examines the current ICTs situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, paying particular attention to the development of a National ICT Policy Strategy, and the responses towards the need to integrate gender concerns by both the women's national machinery and civil society organisations.

18.01.2007 For incense sticks (agarbattis) sold at Rs.100 in market, a homebased worker rolling them receives a meager Rs.2.30 only!

17.01.2007 Rekha Devi is a reporter for Aangan Ke Paar, a BBC World Service Trust-produced weekly radio programme broadcast from 22 AIR stations and BBC Hindi dealing with issues concerning women, especially HIV/AIDS. But unlike other such shows which rely on interviews with experts, this programme has its ears to the ground. Literally.

16.01.2007 Today, January 16, 2007, the interactive installation Index of Women by Andreja Kuluncic starts in Split, with placating of posters in the urban space. The installation is part of the international “Women in Crossroads of Ideologies” programme, prepared by Ana Peraica and organized by the Croatian Association of Painters, Split.

15.01.2007 The CESI Association called met on January 11, 2007, to present its concern over the decision of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports to approve the use of the experimental curriculum in health education prepared by the GROZD Association, in ten schools in Croatia. The GROZD programme awaits the approval by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.

11.01.2007 On Saturday, January 20, 2007, the Croatian Association of Painters – Split opens an exhibition to mark the start of a one-month programme Woman at the Crossroads of Ideologies, prepared by Ana Peraica. The programme includes exhibitions, film and video screenings, mini-symposium, round-table discussions and the opening of the first women reading room.

10.01.2007 Los Acuerdos de Paz en Guatemala son un parte-aguas en la vida política, ya que a raíz de ese acontecimiento se liberaron procesos de lucha social antes prohibidos e inhibidos por sectores económicos y militares que gobernaron este país.

09.01.2007 Kontra opened yesterday, Monday, January 8, its counselling and advise phone line for lesbians and bisexual women. The office is staffed by trained volunteers from lesbian and bisexual women communities, who work under supervision of a psychologist. Kontra plans to also open an e-mail counselling operation.

08.01.2007 Dr. Rashad Zidan, and the women of Iraq, have been working tirelessly to hold families together through the terrors of war. Nominated by the U.S.-based women's activist group CodePink, OneWorlders across the planet have voted them the People of 2006. Learn more.

We gave OneWorlders a chance to send in questions for Dr. Zidan in Baghdad. Click here to read what she had to say.

04.01.2007 Maya SharmaÂ’s new volume, Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India, opens out another space of silence - the sexuality of working class women.

03.01.2007 Indian NGO, Manav Seva Sansthan has started a 24-hours toll-free help line 1800-180-1000 (India) for victims of trafficking and HIV/AIDS.

03.01.2007 India already abysmal sex ratio figures are getting worse by the day, with 80% of its districts recording declining child sex ratios since 1991, according to a new report by Unicef on the global status of children.