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Jueves, 23 de Mayo de 2013 11:15 English - English News

A Global Goal on Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Women’s Empowerment
From the sidelines to the centre

23 de Mayo 2013
By Lakshmi Puri*

Lakshmi Puri Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women’s rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and girls, from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland, have sparked public outrage and demands to tackle these horrific abuses.

In Bangladesh and Cambodia, the shocking loss of life by garment factory workers, many of them women, sparked global debate on how to secure safe and decent jobs in our globalized economy. In Europe, the disproportionate impact on women of austerity cuts, and the use of quotas to get more women on corporate boards continue to make headlines.

Lunes, 04 de Febrero de 2013 11:49 English - English News

Workshop on Assessing Legal Reforms:
Opportunities for Strengthening Remedies and Responses to Sexual Violence in Haiti

February 4, 2013

KOFAVIV and MADRE are honored to invite you to participate in the interactive workshop Assessing Legal Reforms: Opportunities for Strengthening Remedies and Responses to Sexual Violence in Haiti. The goal of the workshop is to create an open dialogue on comparative legislative reform efforts that address gender-based violence.

Co-sponsors include the Gender, Law and Policy Project at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law; the Nobel Women’s Initiative; and the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict.

Jueves, 27 de Septiembre de 2012 09:51 English - English News

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September 21: International Day of Peace

As part of the celebrations of the International Day of Peace, on September 21, a day for much reflections, another opportunity to share with other organizations, with different emphases on what peace means, on what is needed from us all to advance agendas to end wars; and to foster conditions and attitudes to create peace, peace as a way and as an goal, beyond ourselves.

Our world keeps bleeding; Humanity is still in the nightmare of wars, from which we all want to wake up. It is inspiring to realize that by now over 1793 civil society organizations, and public institutions have adhered to the Santiago Declaration to the Human Right to Peace

See www.aedidh.org/sites/default/files/Santiago-Declaration-en.pdf

Miércoles, 07 de Septiembre de 2011 00:00 English - English News

Costa Rica: Feminists agree to articulate a joint struggle against fundamentalism

26/09/2011
By Nathalia Rojas /Feminist International Radio (Radio Internacional Feminista)

During the 2011 Feminist Women National Encounter, women of different ages, academic backgrounds and experience agreed to work with other social movements to generate common agendas for action, in order to promote the advancement of their rights and combat the new expressions of conservative fundamentalists in Costa Rica.

Under the motto "autonomous, transgressive and diverse", the meeting took place from 23 to 25 September in the premises of the Universidad Estatal a Distancia, in Sabanilla. The event was attended by more than 90 women who presented their views on working groups, expressed their main concerns and developed proposals to promote synergy both outside and within feminism in Costa Rica.

Miércoles, 20 de Abril de 2011 06:30 English - English News