TAG: gender equality
Michelle Bachelet will head UN Women
Global: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced in September, 14th that former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet will head UN Women, an agency formed in July to pull together four existing U.N. bodies dealing with the advancement and welfare of women.
Read moreInternet and sexuality from IGF 2010
Read “Internet and sexuality from IGF 2010”, written by Marina Maria, project assistant of the Sexuality Policy Watch. In this article, Marina describres her experience participating in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2010, that took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, from September 14-17, analysing some aspects on gender and sexuality issues debated during this meeting.
Read moreUN Women born
Global: The United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously on July, 2nd to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide, establishing the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women — the new gender equality entity at the UN.
Read moreBack to the Future? Beijing +15 and the UN Commission on the Status of Women Only Partly Delivers on SRRH
Read the article “Back to the Future? Beijing +15 and the UN Commission on the Status of Women Only Partly Delivers on SRRH”, by Cynthia Rothschild, a sexual rights and human rights activist based in New York, on the 54th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) from March 1-12, 2010.
Read moreThe 54th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) from March 1-12, 2010 (Beijing+15)
From 1-12 March 2010, the Commission on the Status of Women undertook a fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly. Member States, representatives of non-governmental organizations and of UN entities participated in the session. A series of parallel events provided additional opportunities for information exchange and networking. See below a complete converge.
Read moreRegional meetings in preparation for the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women
A series of regional meetings has been organized by the United Nations regional commissions — ECA, ECE, ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA — in preparation for the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, from 1-12 March 2010, in New York. See the agenda.
Read moreNew UN gender entity
In a much anticipated decision in the General Assembly (GA), governments agreed in September to move ahead with the process of creating a stronger, more effiective, and better resourced gender entity in the UN system. The new organization will be led by an Under Secretary General (USG) who will carry the women’s empowerment mandate at […]
Read moreRelevant meetings – News 6
Indonesia: The APF of National Human Rights Institutions of Indonesia hosted a regional workshop on the role of NHRIs in the implementation and promotion of the Yogyakarta Principles. Read more.
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Argentina uncategorized: Debates about human trafficking, prostitution and sex work In this article, Carolina Justo von Lurzer and Santiago Morcillo present the main points debateted during a meeting organized by the Sexualities Studies Group of the Gino Germani Research Institute of the University of Buenos Aires to discuss the public policies related to prostitution. Sexual […]
Read moreRead the third edition of the Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws and customs in the Muslim world
Read moreSPW relança publicações durante o 11º Fórum Internacional AWID
Por Marina Maria* Entre 14 e 17 de novembro de 2008, foi realizado o 11º Fórum Internacional AWID, na Cidade do Cabo, África do Sul, com o tema “Direitos das mulheres e desenvolvimento”. O evento, organizado pela Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), reuniu mais de 2 mil pessoas de todos os cantos do […]
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