Issues and Analysis
Moldova: Bucking The Trend, Moldova Emerging As Regional Leader In LGBT Rights
A.C. has spent her life striving to be perfect, in looks and behavior alike.
Read more...Yemen: Safe Streets campaign launches the first Hotline to report sexual harassment
"Safe Streets” campaign, Anti-Streets Harassment in Yemen launches on the 7th April 2013 their Hotline to receive reports on sexual harassment in the streets, in accordance with the International Anti Street Harassment Week 7th– 13th April, 2013
Read more...In Bolivia, Indigenous Women Draw Society's Short Straw
Marisol is an indigenous leader in Cochabamba, Bolivia who, like many indigenous women, had to migrate to the city in search of better opportunities.
Read more...To make media change, be audacious, be bold
In the early hours of the last day of the recent UN Commission on the Status of Women 57, the chair resolved a crippling stalemate by creating a new document.
Read more...Islamic Extremists Alarm Secular Women in Tunisia
Tensions are rising between secular Tunisian women and political Islam. "There is no room for the opposition and women to participate in building the country we want," says one critic.
Read more...Financial Regulation is a Feminist Issue
Since the 1980s with the rise of economic globalization and technological advances in the area of information and communications technologies, finance is increasingly a part of the everyday life for many.
Read more...Interview: Author Says Sex-Selection Crisis In South Caucasus 'Just As Bad As In China'
Across East and South Asia, demographers and policymakers have long struggled with the imbalance between the numbers of boys and girls being born. The natural proportion should be approximately 105 boys for every 100 girls, but, in parts of these regions, ratios have risen as high as 130 or even 140 to 100.
Read more...Women Speak Out
Video of events held November 24-25, 2012 and organized by the Women Coalition for Change.
Read more...Women Raise Banner Of Women’s Rights In Honduran Popular Movement
They set out on February 25, from different parts of a country torn apart. In silent defiance, they entered the capital city of Tegucigalpa on March 6.
Read more...Nepal’s maternal mortality decline paradox
While health experts applaud Nepal’s declining maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in recent years, they say this gain is unsustainable if the country does not address its lack of qualified health staff, especially midwives, to keep women in childbirth alive.
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