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Lethal Link Between Gender Violence and AIDS

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 14/05/2009 - 11:54
Publisher: 
IPS News
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Author: 
Valeria Vilardo
Published Date: 
2009
Abstract: 
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) reported that women now make up half of the population living with HIV in the Caribbean, compared to just 30 percent of the total in 1999. But among the 15-24 age group, women represent 62 percent of those living with HIV.
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"Politics Is the Key to All Doors to Equality" for Women in Latin America

Published date: 
8 May 2009
"People have to imbibe with their mother's milk the idea that women have an equal right to participate in politics," Gladys Acosta, UNIFEM head for Latin America and the Caribbean

Global Coalition Backs New U.N. Gender Body

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30 Mar 2009
An international coalition of over 300 women's organisations and human rights groups, representing more than 50 countries, is lending its support to a proposal aimed at creating a strong new women's body at the United Nations.

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

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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.

Women Die While Goals Not Achieved

Published date: 
26 Jan 2009
More than half a million women over the world every year die during pregnancy or childbirth, and over 90 per cent of these largely preventable deaths occur in developing countries, a United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem) report revealed last week.

Two Years On: Are Women Staying Alive?

Published date: 
6 Jan 2009

The Lawyers Collective Women's Rights Initiative (LCWRI) in partneship with UNIFEM South Asia, evaluated the impact of the domestic violence act that was introduced in India in 2006.

WORLD AIDS DAY: Message from Ines Alberdi, Executive Director, UNIFEM

Published date: 
1 Dec 2008
Ines Alberdi the executive director of UNIFEM there has been progress in the past 20 years in terms of creating awareness about HIV/AIDS. She said on this World AIDS Day, we should on only commemorate but we should celebrate. 

World Rural Women Day: Women Urged To Seek Independence Through Education

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Mon, 20/10/2008 - 09:38
Publisher: 
Daily Times
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
Punjab Assembly Member Fouzia Behram on Wednesday emphasised that rural women must get education to change their destiny.

Speaking at the first national conference on World Rural Women Day organised by civil society organisations here, she said without education rural women would be further pushed into poverty, exclusion and suffering by the patriarchal society.

Hundred of rural women converged on Islamabad in a historic gathering to share their experiences and highlight their issues in a bid to create awareness among the masses that despite their handsome contribution to the country's economic and social development, they were denied their basic rights and excluded from the decision-making processes.
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