TAG: gender

Crucial new insights on sexuality and the Sustainable Development Goals

22 October 2015 If the global commitment to eradicate inequality for all people is truly unequivocal, as leaders promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) claim it to be, the implementation of the SDGs needs to take into account the voices of those people who, because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression (SOGIE), […]

RHM nº 47: Call for Papers – Gender-based and sexual violence: barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights

Reproductive Rights Matters – volume 24 number 47 may/june 2016 In this issue of the journal, we are hoping to gather a wide diversity of articles on how violence can be conceptualised, comprehended and measured. We want to look at the impact of violence on sexual and reproductive health and rights, and what effective […]

Undetermined Discriminations: Trans* persons Rights Emerging post 2014 in India

The legal status of trans* individuals in India was discussed quite extensively in the 2014 case of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) judgment by the Supreme Court of India.

UN Human Rigths Council 30th session: Sexual Rights Recap

Sexual Rights Initiative presents an overview from the 30th session of the UN Human Rights Council. It includes resolutions, panels and discussions, statements and parallel events related to sexual rights of which the SRI was engaged with during the session. Click here to access it.

What Modi didn’t tell Zuckerberg about women and digital freedom

Shiv Visvanathan @ShivVisvanathan If Facebook has face value, Modi’s interview with Mark Zuckerberg at the Town Hall was an immaculate performance. It was controlled, correct and precise to the point even the tears as lack of control were perfect punctuation marks. Yet, every statement has its silences, every text, a context and if we annotate […]

Social Change Program Application – Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality

The Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality is happy to announce its call for applications to its Social Change Program. The Program aims to develop the capacity of sexual and bodily rights and gender equality activists across the MENA region. The application deadline is 21 October 2015. Application form in English

DAWN Training Institute 2016

DAWN is excited to announce the forthcoming 5th DAWN Training Institute (DTI) for young feminists working for gender, economic, political and ecological justice. The DTI is meant for young women from the South. THE 5TH DAWN Training Institute is planned to be held in Havana, Cuba from 21 Nov to 7 Dec 2016. The DAWN […]

BMJ’s dossier Women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health

The year 2015 marks a defining moment for the health of women, children, and adolescents. It is the end point of the United Nations’ millennium development goals, and their transition to the sustainable development goals. It is also the 20th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development’s plan of action and the Beijing […]

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Preamble This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting […]

AWID’s jobs news

Research and Policy Associate Location: Global | Organization: AIDS-Free World | Deadline: 11 September 2015 You will be responsible for producing written materials on pertinent issues spanning a wide range of the organization’s projects, including global health and HIV/AIDS, sexual violence, gender issues, UN policies and international human rights and development. Read more here. *** […]

Brazilian academic institutions and CSO’ submissions to the OCHR’s resolution on the protection of the family

The Brazilian academic institution and civil society organizations listed below offered a contribution to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Report on the impact of the implementation by States of their obligations under relevant provisions of international human rights law with regard to the protection of the family, as requested by Resolution 29/22 of […]

FRIDA Young Feminist Fund Call For Proposals

The Young Feminist Fund is the only youth-led fund focused exclusively on supporting global young feminist activism to advance social justice movements and agendas. FRIDA was created to bring new resources and new opportunities to young women and trans* youth globally. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 14th September 2015 Who can apply? Groups founded or led by […]