Full Coverage: Gender

23.02.2007 The Akcija Zdruzenska civic association, under the auspices of EU’s Campaign “2007 – Year of Equal Opportunities”, organized a forum on the topic On the Road to EU: Macedonian Gender Equality Policies.

15.02.2007 The Millennium Development Goal to achieve gender equality in education can only be met by concerted action. Stronger partnerships are needed to increase opportunities for the millions of girls and women excluded from education, but what kind?

14.02.2007 The Akcija Zdruzenska association, under the EUÂ’s campaign 2007-Year of Equal Opportunity for All, organizes a forum to discuss the topic On the Road to EU: Macedonian Gender Equality Policies.

05.02.2007 NEW YORK, Feb 5 (OneWorld) - Despite a setback in clinical trials, health advocacy groups remain supportive of the need to develop a biomedical product that women can use to protect themselves against HIV infection.

05.02.2007 NEW YORK, Feb 5 (OneWorld) - The women of Iraq, who were nominated along with the founder of a women's-support organization in the country, have been voted OneWorld's People of 2006.

05.02.2007 The Ecumenical Women Solidarity Fund is a regional organization based in Croatia, supporting stimulating and transforming initiatives that support women as actors and instigators of change in religious communities and society in general.

05.02.2007 The Contemporary Skills Centre appealed to all political parties that entered the Serbian Skupstina (the national parliament) after the January 21 Elections, to secure that women account for at least 30 percent in the new Parliament.

02.02.2007 The new Domestic Violence Act is well-intentioned but over-ambitious—as if wishful thinking is all that is needed to protect women from all kinds of real and imagined harm. We are likely to see this law make a mockery of itself.

02.02.2007 By withholding economic aid from Palestinian government institutions and trying to pressure Palestinians into rejecting Hamas, the US and its allies have contributed to a humanitarian disaster, weakened their Palestinian friends and strengthened Hamas' legitimacy, argues Iain Guest.