(LIVE CHAT) Experts from African and Asia discuss the state of maternal health
The UN Millennium Campaign and Women's eNews are hosting a live video chat to discuss the status of Millennium Development Goal #5, Maternal Health, today at 2pm GMT. You can join the chat here.The...
View ArticleA call for structural, sustainable, gender equitable and rights based...
"We, the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD), recognize that the financial and economic crisis represents a critical political opportunity to make significant structural...
View ArticleToilets for brides
An interesting thing is happening quite close to the Indian capital. Women are expressing their desire for a clean and safe toilet as a condition for marriage. I came upon this news on a global blog....
View ArticleCivil Society Reactions to the UN Summit on the Financial and Economic Crisis
The Feminist Task Force has been covering the UN Summit on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development as part of the 10 Days of Action...
View ArticleThese pictures just made my afternoon.
Back in April this year we launched the 6 degrees project, to bring women in the UK together with women living in poverty in developing countries in the fight for women’s rights and to end the violence...
View ArticleWorld’s Women and Malaria
This weekend, the New York Times dedicated its magazine to women’s issues, with special features centered around an except from “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,”...
View ArticleLive-Tweeting UN Food Security Event - Sec. Clinton, Ban ki-Moon
"Seeking a World Without Hunger: A Global Approach to Food Security"
View ArticleGCAP Malawi Commemorates International Women's Day
GCAP Malawi reports on how they commemorated International Women's Day Women are marginalized in relation to access and control of resources, education and employment. This is attributed to the...
View ArticleGender Issues Absent from the LDC Agenda
On 8th May 2011, GCAP Ambassador, Adelaide Sosseh, presented, "From Istanbul to Busan; Placing MDGs in the Heart of Busan", on behalf of GCAP Korea. The intended message of the presentation was to...
View ArticleBrave Voices: Women Fighting North American Coal
Coal has long been the life and blood of rural communities like Lindytown, West Virginia. But surface mining that blasts away mountain tops to reveal the underlying coal has turned many small...
View ArticleGender Equality: Is the High Level Panel Listening?
Poverty justice campaigners, led by the Feminist Task Force, have sent the UN High Level Panel on Post 2015 a clear message: gender equality is essential to end poverty. But did the panelists receive...
View ArticleG20 Update: Russian Finance Minister Mocks Women
MEDIA RELEASE: "OLD BOYS NETWORK" STILL AT WORK AT G20 At the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov joked towards the end of a briefing on Financial Inclusion that...
View ArticleInspiring Change - Campaigning at the CSW
Perhaps no time of year is as intense for gender rights activists as the month of March, when lobbying at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and organising events to celebrate International...
View ArticleEnding Child Marriage: A View from Pakistan
Girls are ready for marriage the moment they reach puberty. That's the pronouncement of one of Pakistan's most influential religious and constitutional bodies, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII),...
View ArticleRelease the five Women Activists now!
We condemn the illegal detention of young feminist activists in mainland China and call for their immediate release!Instead of reminding the world of the historic importance of the...
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