Full Coverage: Gender

31.07.2007 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have reached a halfway point but little seems to have changed, particularly for women whose lives are most affected by extreme poverty. The MDGs do not deal with the underlying causes for women and girl's poverty which needs to be understood in ways men and women access and control services and resources.

31.07.2007 MAPUTO, July 30 (IPS) - Over 1,000 Mozambicans, including children, are trafficked to South Africa every year where they are forced into prostitution or to provide free or cheap labour. In response, Mozambique's government last week approved a new law which will make human trafficking a crime punishable with long prison sentences.

27.07.2007 South Asia Partnership International (SAPI) is organising the South Asian Regional Conference on Invisible Faces of Violence on Women in Politics: Breaking the Silence, from 18-20 September 2007 at Hotel Soaltee Crown Plaza, Kathmandu, Nepal.

27.07.2007 A special school in central Indian state Madhya Pradesh trains women to become ideal, obedient and submissive wives and daughters-in-law, which has drawn the ire of social activists and women's organisations who feel that men should also be part of the training for a balanced society.

26.07.2007 Aborted female foetuses continue to be unearthed from all over India irrespective of regional differences as recent investigations
demonstrate from two economically diverse states - Orissa and
Maharashtra.

25.07.2007 Gagandeep Kaur, a freelance journalist reports on a first of its kind business school - Mann Deshi Udyogini - which has been formed by a rural women's cooperative bank in association with the HSBC Bank. The business school aims to empower rural women on managing small enterprises.

24.07.2007 Dr. Vibhuti Patel reviews Tulsi Patel’s Sex-selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies. This collection of essays unravels the reasons for the depleting child sex ratio in India, with focus on ways in which new reproductive technologies, such as the ultrasound, are misused at the family, community and state levels.

23.07.2007 Naisen pyrkiminen politiikkaan aiheuttaa Sierra Leonessa ihmetystä ja jotkut tuomitsevat sen. Monen naisehdokkaan tie katkeaakin jo esivaaleissa puolueen tuen puuttumiseen. Myös vaalitavan muutos tulee vaikeuttamaan naisten pääsyä parlamenttiin.

20.07.2007 A book titled Paribarik Hinsha Protirodh Aain 2005 (Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005) written by eminent writers will be released by Justice Shyamal Sen on 23 July, 2007 in Kolkata. The book release will be followed by a seminar Paribarik Hinsha Protirodh Aain, 2005 Ebong Amader Kartabya'.

19.07.2007 DAR ES SALAAM, Jul 19 (IPS) - "I began walking when I felt contractions. I delivered on the roadside five kilometres from the hospital," says the 22-year-old Veronica Joseph.

19.07.2007 Professor Vibhuti Patel reviews Countering Gender Violence: Initiatives towards Collective Action in Rajasthan, authored by Kanchan Mathur. The volume focuses on interventions, activism and legal mechanisms that combat violence against women (VAW) in India, particularly in Rajasthan. The author has made an excellent attempt to link VAW with development, health and human rights issues.

19.07.2007 Meski tak terjaring sebagai komisioner Komnas HAM, Yulianus Rettoblaud tetap fenomenal. Dialah waria pertama di Indonesia yang ‘dinominasikan’ untuk memperebutkan jabatan prestisius di sebuah komisi negara.

17.07.2007 The Indian Academy of Social Sciences announces the 31st session of the Indian Social Science Congress, to be hosted by SNDT Women's University and Ambedkar Institute of Social and Economic Change between December 27 and 31, 2007 at Mumbai. Its focal theme is Peoples' Struggles And Movements For Equitable Society.

17.07.2007 In many countries, discrimination against girls begins at birth, or even before they are born. Plan's recent report - 'Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007' - reveals huge global complacency about the rights of girls. Join Plan's campaign to break this cycle of inequity and maltreatment.

16.07.2007 BRIDGE, part of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK, has developed a range of Cutting Edge packs examining gender and development issues. In this article, AWID reviews their recent Cutting Edge pack "Gender and Indicators".

13.07.2007 Women are branded as witches in villages across India, often in a move to gain access to property, land or seek revenge. The desert state of Rajasthan is considering an Anti Witchcraft Bill after a recent spurt of cases where women were subjected to violence.

13.07.2007 Indus Women Leaders (IWL) will hold their 5th Annual Leadership Summit on 13 October at San Francisco, USA, on “Globalization: Women, Wealth and Well-being”. The IWL is a South Asian women’s group that supports and mentors fellow sisters unleash their leadership potential.

11.07.2007 JOHANNESBURG, Jul 11 (IPS) - What is a common factor in ensuring that women do not marry too young, do not have more children than they can cope with, do not die giving birth -- and contract HIV in smaller numbers? Men.

10.07.2007 More than 2,000 women leaders and many of the world's leading AIDS experts were in Nairobi last week for an international conference to address the unique and devastating impact HIV and AIDS has on the over 17 million women and girls living with the disease.

05.07.2007 Natural disasters have time and again proved the vulnerability of poor women, children, the elderly and disabled. Mats Eriksson, Manjari Mehta and Kesang Renchen of the Kathmandu based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) write on the need to integrate local communities in disaster preparedness planning in the Himalayan region.