TAG: gender equality

WLUML Launches Women’s Charters Book Free Online

Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) has announced the online publishing of Women’s Charters and Declarations: Building Another World written by Rashida Manjoo, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on violence against women. Click here to read it.

58th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 58) and Conservative action

Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) has launched analysis on the role and coordinated actions that Conservative forces played during the 58th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 58), in March. Issues like family and gender were on the spotlight. Read some of AWID analysis. Facing Fundamentalisms Spotlight (March/April 2014): “The Family” At CSW58 […]

New GenderIT.org edition highlights “Back and forth in the advancement of women’s rights at CSW58”

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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Fifty-seventh session

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, at its recently concluded session, issued a statement on sexual and reproductive health and rights, which is its contribution to the ICPD@20 review process. The Committee reminds us that it “has observed that failure of a State party to provide services and the criminalisation of some […]

Does Pope Francis Have a Woman Problem?

Read article “Does Pope Francis Have a Woman Problem?”, from the Daily Beast, which points that pope Francis is undoubtedly forward-thinking—except for when it comes to women ascending in the church hierarchy. Click here.

Killing Them Softly: Pope Francis Condemns Income Inequality, Sanctions Gender Inequality

Reality Check brings Adele M. Stan’s article about how Pope Francis “when it comes to inequality of the sexes, enthusiastically embraces Rome’s status quo, using his great treatise on his dream of a kinder, gentler church to sanction the exclusion of women not just from leadership, but from performing the most holy of its rites: […]

6th Asia Pacific Population Conference

The 6th Asia Pacific Population Conference (APPC) took place at the end of September in Bangkok. The final document brings recommendations on gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights, including access to contraceptive, reduction of maternal mortality and access to safe abortion (at this point, the document points that such access must be avaialable under […]

Giant leap backwards regarding the reproductive rights at Rio+20

Global: Gender equality and women’s human rights have continuously been a challenge and sexual and reproductive rights were not included in the Rio+20 document, which was a giant leap backwards. Read a series of contents on this issue.

March 8th – The International Women’s Day: some highlights

Global: To mark the International Women’s Day and to highlight backs and forwards in terms of women’s current condition, SPW has gathered a series of articles, studies, news and arts in a special bulletin.

APC publishess the final reports of the EroTICs: Sexuality and the Internet – an exploratory research

APC launches the final reports of the EroTICs: Sexuality and the Internet – an exploratory research, with the full research findings from Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa and United States, that delve into the complexities of policy and legislative trends on internet content regulation, map key actors and processes, and document how sexuality figures as a central theme in this debate. Read more.

Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices de la Argentina Press release

Argentina: Read the press release written by AMMAR – Sex Workers Argentina repudiating the Presidential Decree that prohibits publicity that promotes sex services.