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UN Women: Rural Women Take on a New Role in Delivering Services in Tajikistan
Added: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 06:18In Northern Tajikistan, in the village of Qal’achai Mazor in Isfara district, the story of Savrukhon Kholmatova is all too common. A mother of four children, she is also the primary care provider for her three disabled nieces and nephew. For Savrukhon, life is a daily struggle to provide for...
Advocacy, Advocacy and Lobbying, Asia and the Pacific, Leadership, Partner News, TajikistanPakistan: Focus on implementation of existing laws urged
Added: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 06:15Speakers of a seminar on gender-based violence (GBV) have stressed the need to focus more on the implementation of existing laws, policies and plans of action in order to end violence against women at national level. The event was organised by the Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment (DTCE)...
Advocacy and Lobbying, Asia and the Pacific, National Legislature/Parliament, Pakistan, World NewsKenya: How Political Parties Sideline Women Leaders
Added: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 06:00Kenyan political parties routinely flout their own policies and manifestos on gender representation. And, among the big players, President Kibaki’s Party of National Unity is the worst culprit, with just 18 per cent of its leadership positions occupied by women.
Candidate Selection, Elections and Quotas, Kenya, Political Parties, Quotas, Sub-Saharan Africa, Women’s Party Sections, World NewsEurope: Ministers agree to act for more women on company boards
Added: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 07:10During a debate to improve the number of women in top positions, EU ministers gave the green light to Commission vice-president Viviane Reding “to do something” to boost gender balance, which is "good for business." “Everyone agreed that there is a problem in women...
Europe, Leadership, World NewsUSA: 5th World Conference on Women and Sport Calls for More Women in Leadership Roles
Added: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 07:05(PRWEB) February 20, 2012 Participants in the 5th IOC World Conference on Women and Sport called on sports leaders to take a more proactive role in advancing the cause of women in and through sport as the event came to a close in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday.
Leadership, World NewsPakistan: Women empowerment to ensure strong Pakistan: Altaf
Added: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 06:58Karachi—MQM Chief Altaf Hussain has vowed to work for women empowerment in Pakistan and enacting laws for their protection and due rights in the society. “The MQM raised its voice for rights of women in Parliament and at every forum with bravery and courage. It was MQM who got...
Advocacy, Advocacy and Lobbying, Asia and the Pacific, Campaigns, Constituency Outreach, Elections and Quotas, Media and Message, Pakistan, World NewsUN-WOMEN: Reparations for Women Survivors in Northern Uganda
Added: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 04:44Following decades of civil strife and insurgency in northern Uganda, there has been much discussion on how to achieve lasting reconciliation. High on this agenda is reparations for its victims. Reparations can acknowledge the rights and dignity of those harmed by conflict by providing some justice...
Partner News, Post conflict and Transitional Participation, Post-conflict Reconstruction, Sub-Saharan Africa, UgandaPakistan: Women Power: Records Tumble as MQM Holds Female-Only Rally
Added: Monday, February 20, 2012 - 19:39Photo credit: ATHAR KHAN/EXPRESS While linking women empowerment to the prosperity of the country, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain added another milestone to the country’s political history by supposedly hosting the largest congregation of women in the world....
Asia and the Pacific, Outreach, Pakistan, Political Parties, World NewsIndia: Newly Elected Women Corporators in PMC Not in Favour of Gender Budget
Added: Monday, February 20, 2012 - 19:31For the first time, in the history of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), woman corporators will outnumber men, as the PMC house will have 78 women and 74 male corporators. The state government's decision to hike reservation for women, from 33% to 50%, in all local self-government bodies has...
Asia and the Pacific, Elections and Quotas, Engendering Legislation Budgets, India, Working with men, World NewsEgypt: After the revolution in Egypt, women’s taste of equality fades
Added: Monday, February 20, 2012 - 05:58CAIRO — Bothaina Kamel is a novelty and a provocation in a single breath. The only woman running for Egypt’s presidency, she travels without an entourage, wears a bracelet that says “Make poverty history,” can outlast the most exasperating heckler in the crowd, and has no...
Advocacy, Advocacy and Lobbying, Arab States, Campaigns, Egypt, World News
