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Women and the conflict in Colombia

Women have been at the center of every stage of unrest in , despite their pronounced absence from formal peace negotiations. Colombia has a relatively high number of women in elected positions.  Colombia also boasts a strong, vibrant and diverse women’s movement. Despite repeated attack, disappearances, kidnappings and threats perpetrated against women leaders, women’s groups […]

Sustainable development? Not without family planning!

This article is the 10th in a series of articles related to Wikiprogress. “The lack of recognition of reproductive rights as essential to sustainable development was especially disappointing.” Anita Nayar, Executive Committee Member of Development Alternatives with Women for A New Era (DAWN) – on the outcomes of Rio+20The Zimbabwean (2012), Women outraged at Rio+20 […]

Women’s legal empowerment

The ability to and to claim, use, and defend land and other natural resource tenure rights – of individuals and groups – is contingent on processes of empowerment. Women face additional hurdles to empowerment, ranging from their status within the household and community to their status under customary and/or statutory law. While many countries make […]

“Auntie Stella”: A Best Practice Sexual & Reproductive Health Education and HIV Prevention Resource for Adolescents

Table of Contents 1 Overview 2 Getting to Know “Auntie Stella” 2.1 Including Adolescents’ Voices in Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2.2 Analysing AS 2.2.1 AS in Zimbabwe and the Southern Africa Region 3 See Also 4 Conclusion 5 References 6 Feedback Overview The importance of investing in adolescent girls’ is well documented, especially in […]

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Moremi Initiative: investing in women and girls’ leadership in Africa

Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Moremi Initiative: Training Young Women to Lead Change 1.1.1 The Moremi Initiative’s Leadership and Empowerment Development (MILEAD) Fellowship 2 See also 3 External links 4 References 5 Feedback Introduction Young women have long been identified as agents of change. As articulated by the World YWCA in their training manual […]

CLADEM

Type NGO Founded 1987 Location Oficina Regional CLADEM, Jr. Estados Unidos 1295, Dpto. 702, Lima 11, Peru Area served Latin America and the Caribbean Focus Human rights and legal and judicial development Method Education, advocacy, lobbying, monitoring, litigation Website http://www.cladem.org/ The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (Portuguese: Comitê Latino-americano […]

  • September 3, 2012
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World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development stories

Education and Health “Globally, over a third of women die in their reproductive years”(Page 105 of the report). “Girls now outnumber boys in secondary schools in 45 developing countries” (see World Bank website on WDR 2012). “Despite progress in female education, around 40 percent of men in Amman ages 15–44 think women should not work […]

Dinamicas de genero en el aula

Table of Contents 1 Dinámicas de género en el aula: 1.1 Pautas para la inclusión en el ámbito educativo. 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Dinámicas de género en el aula: Pautas para la inclusión en el ámbito educativo. Las niñas y los niños desarrollan sus propias percepciones de género a muy temprana […]

  • September 15, 2012
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Oppression of female labour in Thailand

This article was written by Group 3 in , as part of the . In the past, employment in Thailand was mostly concentrated in the agricultural sector due to the main mode of production. Later, industries progressively reduced the role of agriculture, which was coupled with an increasing number of young women entering the labour […]

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