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Sources: BBC News, Reuters Key bases during the two-decades civil war between Sudan’s government and the Sudan’s people liberation movement/army (SPLM/A), the Nuba Mountains and the...
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  • Women Make the News 2010. Towards Gender Sensitive Indicators for Media: Best practices for gender perspective in media and in media content 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...

  • Resources on Darfur: two recent reports and Rob Crilly's book Resources on Darfur: two recent reports and Rob Crilly’s book

    In the last weeks, some new interesting resources on Darfur have been published. While news coming from Sudan's western region tell of a new offensive going on around Jebel Marra and as negotiations in Doha, Qatar, continue to be stalled, Julie Flint's Rhetoric and reality: the failure to resolve t...

  • Wide Annual Conference 2010: Wide Annual Conference 2010:”Migration in the context of globalisation”

    Source: WIDE (Women in Development Europe) June 4-5 2010-Bucharest, Romania. This year´s Conference marks also the 25th anniversary of WIDE. The UN Women´s world conference in Kenya 1985 marked the start for WIDE when feminists in Europe decided it was time to join hands and work together. In...

  • World Survey on the Role of Women in Development (2009) World Survey on the Role of Women in Development (2009)

    Source: Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the U.N. The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is the flagship publication of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women.  It is presented to the Second Committee of th...

  • CEDAW-46th Session, New York CEDAW-46th Session, New York

    July 12-30, 2010: 46th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, New York. Click here for more details and country reports....

  • CEDAW-16th Meeting of States parties CEDAW-16th Meeting of States parties

    June 28, 2010: 16th Meeting of States parties. Election of the members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to replace those whose terms are due to expire on 31 December 2010. The sixteenth meeting of States parties will take place in New York with the aim of electing ...

  • The Global Gender Gap Report 2009 The Global Gender Gap Report 2009

    The Global Gender Gap Report 2009. By Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard University), Laura D. Tyson (University of California, Berkley) and Saadia Zahidi (World Economic Forum). Source: World Economic Forum Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 20...

  • World Urban Forum 5: the Right of City-Bridging the Urban Divide World Urban Forum 5: the Right of City-Bridging the Urban Divide

    Source: Womenwatch 22 -26 March 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: In the space of a few short years, the World Urban Forum has turned into the world's premier conference on cities. The Forum was established by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing problems facing the world today: rap...

  • UNDP Resource guide on gender and climate change UNDP Resource guide on gender and climate change

    Source: Eldis Poor women’s limited access to resources, restricted rights, limited mobility and muted voice in shaping decisions make them highly vulnerable to climate change. This guide aims to inform practitioners and policy makers of the linkages between gender equality and climate change an...

  • Women’s Rights: Some Progress, Many Gaps Women’s Rights: Some Progress, Many Gaps

    Source: 30 years CEDAW website "Women’s Rights: Some Progress, Many Gaps" is a shadow report by Dutch NGOs; an examination of the Fifth Report by the Government of the Netherlands on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW),...

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