Gender Equality

Feminist Response to COVID-19: an online repository to strengthen solidarity

Feminist organizations and activists have been very dynamic reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic and providing their own analysis through gender and intersectional perspectives, as...

SID and EASSI efforts towards a gender equality bill in East Africa

Recognizing the fact that attitudes and approaches that have served to marginalize women's issues and undermine the agenda of gender equity and equality are long established and...

The Zero Draft for Post-2015 Development Agenda Contains Gaps on Key Feminist Issues

Press Release, June 17, 2015 Post 2015 Women Coalition Next week the Zero Draft of the Outcome Document of the Post-2015 Development Agenda 'Transforming Our World,' will be...

Actualization and implementation of the 'Two-Thirds Gender Principle' in Kenya

Representation of women in Kenya’s Parliament has been and remains minimal. Only 9.8% of the tenth Parliament was comprised of women, and only 20.7% of the eleventh (sitting)...

What did (not) change this year at CSW59

The 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59, 9-20 March 2015) concluded its work on Friday March 20th after two weeks of negotiations accompanied by high...

CSW59: Post 2015 Women Coalition Press Release

Thursday March 12th the Post 2015 Women's Coalition launched their Vision Statement for feminist alternative approaches to sustainable development.  The Coalition made up of...

Statement on the Political Declaration on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women

There has been tremendous progress toward gender equality and the realization of the human rights of women and girls. However, many of the gains that women and girls have made are...

Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA): Challenges and ways forward for the African countries

Brief history on BPfA processes The 1999 (Beijing +5) review noted that progress had been made since the 1995 world conference, although more needed to be done to tackle poverty...

SID/ISS session at CSW59 on 'Global knowledge, power and social change: The contribution of transnational feminist movements'

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Governments must rededicate to women's and girls' rights commitments

Civil Society Organizations were discussing the progress made in the field of women's and girls' rights 20 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BDPfA) was...

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