Issues and Analysis
Are LGBTI issues relevant at the United Nations?
Never before have LGBTI issues been as present as they are at the United Nations. The Universal Periodic Review allows civil society and governments to question the Human Rights record of any given state and recommend it’d improve it.
Read more...#FBrape campaign and the necessary debate
The Take action to end gender-based violence on Facebook, or #FBrape campaign, co-signed by the APC Women´s Rights Programme, triggered interesting, timely and necessary debates around freedom of expression, censorship, privacy and intermediary liability. Read the collection of GenderIT.org Feminist Talk posts that reflect some of the discussion around these hot topics.
Read more...Putting women on the disaster risk reduction agenda
Every year, approximately 200 million people around the world are affected by disasters. Of these, 100 million are women or girls, according to the UN’s Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
Read more...Gender equality funds must go to women's groups in poor countries
A report urging the UK to increase funding to women's rights groups is welcome, but the money must reach the right people.
Read more...USA: Is Marriage Equality Almost Here? Six Possible Outcomes of the DOMA and Prop 8 Cases
In 2007 Edie Windsor married Thea Spyer after already being together for 40 years. When Spyer died, in 2009, their home state of New York recognized marriage equality, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the federal law that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman, the federal government did not.
Read more...Turkish Protests Rattle Erdogan's Female Loyalists
Turkey's anti-government protests are troubling for some of Erdogan's female supporters, who dominate his voting base. For other women, the protests are an outlet for anger at current policies and a break from the political repression that followed the 1970s mass unrest.
Read more...United Nations - Adoption of UPR report of Botswana
In January 2013 the UPR 15th session reviewed Botswana and thirteen other countries. The NGOs’ reports had been sent, as it is compulsory, seven months before the review session. Caine Jason Kaene Youngman, a staunch member of LEGABIBO (Lesbians, Gays & Bisexuals of Botswana), an ILGA member since 2005, attended the session. Interview by Patricia Curzi.
Read more...World Bank seeks to eradicate poverty... by lowering the bar
In a highly publicised speech, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim (a Korean-born American health specialist) announced in April that the new "highly ambitious" target of his institution will be "ending extreme poverty in the world by 2030."
Read more...Resurrection, Not Resistance
Analysis and photos from Women for Women Human Rights - New Ways, feminist women's rights organization (Turkey) on the recent Gezi Park related protests.
Read more...High level panel proposes to the UN to put mega business, not people, at the center of development
Social Watch, a network of civil society organizations in over 80 countries that monitor their governments compliance with international commitments, expressed deep disappointment with the suggestions of new development goals to replace the MDGs proposed today to the United Nations by a High Level Panel.
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