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Women leaders are key to ‘the Kenya we want’
A government conference encouraging citizens to tell them about ‘the Kenya we want’ via censored media channels is unlikely to yield positive change, suggests feminist activist Awino Okech. Okech calls for Kenyan women to self-organise and engage with political structures using the frameworks provided by feminism or, she cautions, history will not judge them kindly for failing to take on the issues of their time.
Read more...Gender Equality and New Technologies
Biotechnology refers to techniques that use living organisms or substances to make or modify a product for practical uses. Agricultural biotechnology includes both agricultural production and processing, using technological approaches such as plant breeding and genetic engineering or modification.
Read more...A Movement within Movements
CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE, South Africa, November 14-17, 2008: Around 2,000 people from cause-oriented organisations, the academe, governments, funding agencies and policy-making bodies all over the world, gathered in a four-day international forum organised by the Association of Women in Development (AWID). Thirty five members of the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) attended the event.
Read more...Achieving Women’s Economic & Social Rights Strategies and Lessons from Experience
A roof over one’s head, safe drinking water, nutritious food, accessible education, adequate health care, a dignified and secure livelihood … these
are not only development goals, they are basic human rights. Ensuring these rights, however, has been an uphill battle for the majority of the world’s population.
New Report Shows Global Gender Pay Gap Bigger Than Previously Thought
A new report released by the ITUC for March 8, International Women's Day, has revealed that the pay gap between men and women worldwide may be much higher than official government figures.
Read more...CLIMATE CHANGE: A Little Equality Could Save a Lot of Lives
When ministers and government officials meet at the end of this year for a critical U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, they should bear in mind that the mortality rate for women during climate-related natural disasters is an average of 14 times higher than for men.
Read more...IOC’s snub of female ski jumpers a double-standard
Marion Lay of Vancouver was honoured by the International Olympic Committee in 2001 for her work in promoting women in sports, earning the IOC’s Women and Sport Trophy for the Americas.
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