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Panel Splits On Bill For Transgender Rights

Published date: 
18 Mar 2009
A House panel split yesterday on whether to recommend a bill that supporters said would prevent discrimination against transgender people but that opponents, who dubbed the measure the "bathroom bill," said would tear down proper barriers between the sexes.

Domestic Violence A Brutal Reality For Many Tanzanian Women

Published date: 
8 Mar 2009
The most recent figures available, from the WHO`s 2005 Multi-country Study on Women`s Health and Domestic Violence against Women, showed that 41 percent of women interviewed in Dar es Salaam, and 56 percent of women in Mbeya, had ever experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of a partner. In both sites, 60 percent of those women had never sought help from any formal service or authority.

ZIMBABWE: New Cabinet Ignores Quota for Women

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Fri, 06/03/2009 - 10:05
Publisher: 
IPS
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Author: 
Davison Makanga
Published Date: 
2009
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Women’s rights activists in Zimbabwe are outraged by the low representation of female politicians in the new unity government. Only four women are part of the 35-member cabinet, laughably short of the equal representation of women in decision-making that Zimbabwe signed onto at a regional summit in September 2008.
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DEVELOPMENT: Financial Crisis Threatens Women's Meagre Gains

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Fri, 06/03/2009 - 09:50
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IPS
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http://www.ipsnews.net/
Author: 
Thalif Deen
Published Date: 
2009
Abstract: 
The spreading global financial crisis - which has taken a heavy toll of international bankers, investors and speculators - is also having a devastating impact on some of the most vulnerable and marginalised groups in society, including women and children.
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'Sharing The Caring Of A Nation'

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5 Mar 2009
The Botswana theme for this year's International Women's Day (IWD), 'Sharing the Caring for the Future', stresses the need for men to join women to equally share the care burdens that are normally borne by women.

Women’s History Month - A ‘Second Wave of Feminism’

Published date: 
3 Mar 2009
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, many campuses across the United States were relatively quiet while new political ideas were taking shape. The women's movement was gaining momentum as issues of unequal pay for men and women, unequal access to managerial jobs and other aspects of gender inequality and sex discrimination became national issues.

RIGHTS: U.N. Flunking on Gender Empowerment, Women Say

Published date: 
26 Feb 2009
The United Nations is coming under heavy fire for the lack of vibrant leadership and the continued absence of adequate structures to advance the long-touted cause of gender empowerment worldwide.

North Dakota Bill Would Add Sexual Orientation To Human Rights Laws

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19 Feb 2009
A new bill in the North Dakota Legislature could have that state joining thirteen others in outlawing discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Minnesota was the first state in the nation to do so in 1993, and the North Dakota bill follows that lead.

Ghana: Appoint More Women to Positions of Chief Executives

Published date: 
16 Feb 2009
The Upper East Regional Inter-sectoral Gender Network(RISEGNET) has reiterated the need for the present government to appoint more women to the position of Chief Executives, Assembly members and Council of State members.

Manto Heads Powwow On Women's Ministry

Published date: 
3 Feb 2009

The ANC's plans to create a special ministry for women and gender affairs came a step closer to being realised at a meeting in Pretoria on Monday, when gender activists and the government agreed that one should be established.

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