Archive for Gender

• Migration, gender and development: A conversation from a comparative perspective

  How is participation of women in migration changed in the last 20 years? Is there a difference in international migration patterns between women and men? Sara Farris’ article - published on Development Vol. 53.1 'New Institutions for Development'– seeks to answer these questions focusing on fema...

• Historic article for women’s rights in South Africa: When ‘traditional values’ are a stick to beat women

  Source: Timeslive website SID Forum would like to draw attention of its followers to the courageous article by Pregs Govender, who wrote in her personal capacity this provocative and highly important article on women’s rights. She is deputy chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commissi...

• International Women’s Day: Going Strong at 100!

  Spurce: AWID By Kathambi Kinoti On March 8, 2010, women will celebrate the one hundredth International Women’s Day (IWD). Since 1910[i] one day has been set aside every year to celebrate, honour and take stock of the situation of women’s rights all over the world. IWD arose out of the work...

• Gender Matters – CSW54: Making the linkages

  by Wendy Harcourt There is no doubt that there is a lot of knowledge gathered at the CSW. I have been scribbling non-stop, picking up new ideas and ways of thinking. The spectrum goes from issues around multilateralism and how institutions are not working for women’s rights, to in-depth ...

• Gender Matters – CSW54: How do we bring about change?

  Today I found myself sitting at the top of a very tall hotel looking over the skyline of Manhattan in one of the parallel of parallel sessions organized by UNIFEM. The topic remains financial crisis, the strategies, the forecasts, ways to grapple with systemic failure. Having painted too grim a p...

• Gender matters – CSW54: Where did it all go wrong?

  Sitting in the belly of the beast in a small meeting room in the UN around 25 women and a few men puzzled what would development look like if gender really mattered. At the launch of the SID journal vol 53 no 1 on new institutions for development, the participants were invited to take off their inst...

• CSW54 – Gender Matters: Can the UN bring change?

  Well, two predictions of mine are bearing out. First, the chaos of organizing such a large meeting has led to some people queuing for 5 to 8 hours to gain registration to the official CSW meeting. On the bright side such long waiting times did mean unplanned networking and a sense of solidarity amo...

• Women Make the News 2010. Towards Gender Sensitive Indicators for Media: Best practices for gender perspective in media and in media content

  Source: UNESCO Portal Launched annually on the occasion of the International Women’s Day (8 March), Women Make the News (WMN) is a global initiative aimed at promoting gender equality in the media. This year’s theme,”Towards Gender Sensitive Indicators for Media: Best practices for gen...

• Gender Matters – CSW 54: Dealing with the crisis not as victims but with solutions.

  by Wendy Harcourt High on the list of the discussions in New York at the CSW54 is the impact of the financial crisis on women. How are women dealing with a systemic crisis? Stories such as those put out by GenderWire of IPS show that the multiple crises of food, climate and economic is hitt...

• Gender Matters – CSW54: Coping with Bantánamo

  by Wendy Harcourt There is a sense of trepidation for the women (and some men) heading to New York for the 54th Commission of the Status of Women. Already in cyberspace the atmosphere of the meeting is being created. Messages come thick and fast about meetings to attend. Meetings on sexual r...