E. Women's rights and gender equity

• IFIs pay lip service only to women's rights
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (02 Dec 11)
• Battered bodies, broken families - remembering immigrant women
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (29 Nov 11)
• Mobilising men to end violence against women
  IPS/Sandra Siagian (29 Nov 11)
• How to prevent "femicide"
  IPS/Marcela Valente (28 Nov 11)
• Women build new opportunities in cooperatives
  IPS/Marcela Valente (25 Nov 11)
• Deadly cocktail of sexual violence and impunity
  IPS/Emilio Godoy (25 Nov 11)
• Mexican women demand climate justice
  IPS/Emilio Godoy (16 Nov 11)
• Women losing ground in economic, political equality
  IPS/Sandra Siagian (04 Nov 11)
• Women hung out to dry in global labour market
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (22 Sept 11)
• 'Until the day I die': A Haitian peasant woman leader speaks
  Gerta Louisama (Sept 11)
• Laws "not enough" to tackle violence against native women
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (27 Jul 11)
• Sisters in the struggle for justice
  IPS/Portia Crowe (11 Jul 11)
• Progress for women's rights more impressive on paper
  IPS/Danilo Valladares (08 Jul 11)
• So much more than just "trafficked women"
  IPS/Portia Crowe (06 Jul 11)
• Women panchayat leaders: Breaking stereotypes, bringing hope
  Bharat Dogra & Reena Mehta (Jun 11)
• Push for girls' education ahead of G8
  IPS/A. D. McKenzie (27 May 11)
• Women's issues missing from election manifestos
  Zukiswa Zimela (May 11)
• Stateless refugee mothers fall through the cracks in Bangladesh
  Misha Hussain (May 11)
• Algerian women test the 'Arab spring' winds
  Brahim Takheroubte (Apr 11)
• Shining a light on women's rights
  IPS/Andrea Lunt (07 Mar 11)
• Native women seek justice
  IPS/Haider Rizvi (04 Mar 11)
• Educate the girl, empower the woman
  IPS/Andrea Lunt (02 Mar 11)
• UN Women celebrates launch
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (28 Feb 11)
• Grassroots women agree biggest problem is gender violence
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (25 Feb 11)
• Peru: Rural girls face barriers to education
  IPS/Milagros Salazar (17 Feb 11)
• Surviving the sexist genocide
  IPS/Danilo Valladares (10 Feb 11)
• Nicaragua: Gender revolution in schools not reflected at work
  IPS/Jose Adan Silva (07 Feb 11)
• Argentina: Set on fire - new form of sexist violence
  IPS/Marcela Valente (21 Jan 11)
• Brazil: New President's first steps fuel optimism of women's movement
  IPS/Mario Osava (14 Jan 11)
• Violence against women linked to HIV risk
  IPS/Marcela Valente (26 Nov 10)
• Argentina: Click here to escape gender violence
  IPS/Marcela Valente (25 Nov 10)
• Nicaragua: Obstacle course to women's equality
  IPS/Jose Adan Silva (10 Nov 10)
• Women declare war on gender violence
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (09 Nov 10)
• Sexual violence is not "collateral damage"
  IPS/Matthew O. Berger (08 Nov 10)
• Afghan women demand liberation, not lip service
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (01 Nov 10)
• Reflections on Colombia's treatment of female prisoners
  Liliany Obando (Oct/Nov 10)
• War is hell, especially for women
  IPS/Thalif Deen (22 Oct 10)
• Latin America: Women peacekeepers have a vital role to play
  IPS/Daniela Estrada (22 Oct 10)
• Haitian women at increased risk of trafficking
  IPS/Emilio Godoy (29 Sept 10)
• Chile: Bachelet's appointment to head UN Women widely applauded
  IPS/Daniela Estrada (16 Sept 10)
• Women, children top anti-poverty agenda
  IPS/Matthew O. Berger (15 Sept 10)
• Japan: House-husbands giving birth to more gender equality
  IPS/Suvendrini Kakuchi (01 Sept 10)
• Argentina: The gender roots of labour inequality
  IPS/Sebastian Lacunza (09 Aug 10)
• Ethiopia: Empowering women to fight FGM/C
  IRIN (Aug 10)
• African women’s long walk to equality
  L. Muthoni Wanyeki (Aug 10)
• To fight AIDS, fight gender inequality
  IPS/Marcela Valente (20 Jul 10)
• Indian Ocean Islands: Women join forces for political equality
  IPS/Nasseem Ackburally (16 Jul 10)
• Uruguay: Women join forces in the Parliamentary trenches
  IPS/Silvana Silveira (07 Jul 10)
• United Nations: Gender meet ends on high note with new "UN Women"
  IPS/Hannah Rubenstein (06 Jul 10)
• South Korea: Despite gains, women still struggle for equality
  IPS/Suvendrini Kakuchi (01 Jul 10)
• African women's long walk to equality
  L Muthoni Wanyeki (Jun/July 10)
• United Nations: Wrangling continues over new women's entity
  IPS/Beatrice Paez (29 Jun 10)
• Chile: Gender equity progress blocked by hard-core "machismo"
  IPS/Daniela Estrada (18 May 10)
• Imprisoning Palestinian women
  Stephen Lendman (Apr 10)
• Arab women caught between extremes
  IPS/Thalif Deen (08 Mar 10)
• United States: Detained migrant women shackled during childbirth
  IPS/Valeria Fernandez (08 Mar 10)
• Egypt: Battle for women judges half won
  Ursula Lindsey (Mar 10)
• To focus on global epidemic of gender abuse
  IPS/Thalif Deen (22 Feb 10)
• Women eke out a living in informal economy
  IPS/Danilo Valladares (18 Feb 10)
• North African women at forefront of legal reform
  Fatima Sadiqi (11 Feb 10)
• Women's treaty weakened by slew of reservations
  IPS/Thalif Deen (11 Dec 09)
• Women's treaty a powerful force for equality
  IPS/Liza Jansen (08 Dec 09)
• Recruits men to help end violence against women
  IPS/Liza Jansen (30 Nov 09)
• United Nations: Approves long-awaited new women's agency
  IPS/Thalif Deen (14 Sept 09)
• GA Adopts Resolution to Establish a New Women's Entity
  (14 Sept 09)
• Chile: Activists press candidates to take a stance on women's rights
  Daniela Estrada (Aug/Sept 09)
• Seasonal widows
  Mario Osava (Jun 09)
• Silenced by euphemism
  Eileen Pittaway (Jun 09)
• The gender agenda in Venezuela
  Nandi Mgijima (May 09)
• Women's equality in theory, but not in practice
  IRIN (May 09)
• The rights of women as casualties of war
  Ramzy Baroud (Nov/Dec 08)
• Destroying the social order
  Rita Schafer (Aug 08)
• Breaking the code
  Tobias Jackson (Jun 08)
• The real victims
  T K Rajalakshmi (Jun 08)
• Guatemala approves law against femicide
  Central America Report (May 08)
• Women, commitments and inaction
  Roberto Bissio (Mar 08)
• African women and domestic violence
  Takyiwaa Manuh (Nov/Dec 07)
• Small family norm aggravates female foeticide
  Kalyan Singh Kothari (Oct 07)
• The plight of Iraqi women: The epitome of American arrogance
  Lucinda Marshall (Oct 07)
• Women demand a fairer share of political power
  Central America Report (Sept 07)
• Women's intervention efforts in Gulu, Northern Uganda
  Women's World (Sept 07)
• Indigenous, black women face 'triple glass ceiling'
  Kintto Lucas (Jul/Aug 07)
• Latin America: Political parity for women still a long way off
  Kintto Lucas (Jul/Aug 07)
• Women group wins legal battle against Japan NHK
  Tomoko Kashiwazaki (Jun 07)
• Swaziland: Empowering women to beat abuse
  IRIN news service (Jun 07)
• Women victims of 1965 speak out
  Carmel Budiardjo (May 07)
• Unheard voices: Dalit women
  Tamil Nadu Women's Forum (Apr 07)
• Femicide reaches epidemic proportions
  Central American Report (Jan 07)
• Many to blame for war crimes against Congo's women
  Judy Amunga Ndibo (Jan 07)
• Juarez femicides just a drop in the ocean of blood
  Diego Cevallos (Dec 06)
• 'Rent-a-womb': The latest Indian export
  Jayati Ghosh (Oct/Nov 06)
• Domestic violence: Justice for women?
  Ratna Mataramunti (Jul 06)
• Justice for women in conflict – A view from amnesty international
  Irene Khan (May 06)
• South African trial brings rape into public view
  Carolyn Dempster (Apr 06)
• Hasta siempre Gladys
  Rosemary Barbera (Oct/Nov 05)
• Hope in a violent land
  Brad Miller (Jun 05)
• Impunity: A prelude to violence against women
  Laura Becerra Pozos (Mar 05)
• Latin American women: At least half a century needed to reach gender-equality goals
  Maria Cecilia Espinosa (Mar 05)
• The sex-for-sale trap
  Yeni (Jan/Feb 05)
• Foe of 'radical feminism' to train Iraqi women
  Jim Lobe (Nov/Dec 04)
• The politics of women's suffrage in Kuwait
  Mary Ann Tétreault (Sept/Oct 04)
• Rwanda leads the world in parliamentary gender parity
  Helen Vesperini (Aug 04)
• 11300 women murdered in just over three years
  Diego Cevallos (Jul/Aug 04)
• Job equality still elusive for women, says ILO
  Kanaga Raja (Mar/Apr 04)
• Women in Indonesia's trade unions
  Sarah Gardner (Jan/Feb 04)
• U.S. accused of paying lip service to women’s rights
  Ushani Agalawatta (Nov 03)
• Trafficking of women and children in South-East Asia
  Mikel Flamm (Sept 03)
• Families of murdered Mexican women organise for justice
  Michael Seifert (Aug 03)
• Millennium progress for the world’s women?
  Global Future (Jun 03)
• Women representatives blaze a new trail in India's villages
  Bharat Dogra (May/Jun 03)
• Half a million girls work as domestic ‘slaves’ in Brazil
  Mario Osava (May 03)
• The ongoing war on women in Iraq
  Nadje Al-Ali (Jan/Feb 03)
• Pakistan’s fiery shame: Women die in stove deaths
  Juliette Terzieff (Jan 03)
• Ludu Daw Amar: Speaking truth to power
  Min Zin (Nov/Dec 2002)
• Chinese women face discrimination in the job market
  Yu Huaiqing (Sept/Oct 2002)
• 'We're not from Mars,' Nicaraguan men against violence assert
  Gareth Richards (Nov-Dec 2001)
• A profile of courage
  S Viswanathan (Sept-Oct 2001)
• Latin America: Women immigrants, the target of xenophobia
  M.Valente (23 Jul 2001)
• Japan: Steps in gender equality come too slowly for women
  S.Kakuchi (04 Jul 2001)
• EU action plan brings gender to the fore
  G.Hopkins (24 Jun 2001)
• Asia: Women far from critical mass to change political scene
  J.Son (19 Jun 2001)
• Latin America: Scant progress in status of women, says UNIFEM
  G.Gonzalez (10 Apr 2001)
• Women demand political will in disarmament negotiations
  G.Capdevila (08 Mar 2001)
• Europe pledges harsher penalties for 'sex slave' traffickers
  B.Kennety (08 Mar 2001)
• Poor protection for victims of sex trade
  L.Delong (Nov 2000)
• The truth behind Sri Lanka's gender development statistics
  N.de Soysa (Sept 2000)
• The Indigenous Women's International Forum and reflections on Beijing Plus Five
  Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Aug/Sept 2000)
• The long march towards gender equity in SADC
  Diana Mavunduse (Jun/Jul 2000)
• Only 8 states close gender gap, says UNIFEM
  T.Deen (05 Jun 2000)
• Zambian women demand gender policy
  Wilcliff Sakala (May 2000)
• The woman's place
  Parvathi Menon (Apr 2000)
• US: Falls short of UN goals on gender parity
  T.Deen (30 Mar 2000)
• Modern slavery -forcing millions of women into the sex trade
  Marwaan Macan-Markar (Feb/Mar 2000)
• Girl power
  Naunidhi Kaur (Dec 1999/Jan 2000)
• Towards a SAARC Convention against trafficking in women and children
  Farida Akhter (Oct/Nov 1999)
• Modern slavery - forcing millions of women into sex trade
  Marwaan Macan-Markar (Sept 1999)
• Sita and her daughters: Women workers at an Indian export-processing zone
  T K Rajalakshmi/PANOS (Jul 1999)
• Seeking a fair deal to working women for maternity
  Someshwar Singh/SUNS (18 Jun 1999)
• Who will wipe away the tears of Indian rape victims?
  Svati Chakravarty-Bhatkal (Jun 1999)
• Pushing the Women's Agenda Forward
  Padmaja Padman (16 May 1999)
• Women in US prisons face widespread abuse
  Amnesty International (Apr/May 1999)
• Pushing the Women's Agenda Forward - Strategies to tackle concerns
  Padmaja Padman (16 May 1999)
• Twilight zone for women red-light workers along Indian highways
  M.Menon (Mar 1999)
• Redefining the role of women in Indonesia
  Abdul Razak Ahmad (Mar 1999)
• Surgical strike: Peru's sterilisation campaign and the US' hidden agenda
  Elizabeth Liagin (Nov 1998)
• The women workers of Dhaka
  Jeremy Seabrook (Oct 1998)
• Mixed findings on progress for women
  Murtaza Mandli-Yadav (Sept 1998)
• Women's resistance in Chiapas
  Robin Flinchum (Jul 1998)
• The women's movement in India: Action and reflection
  Urvashi Butalia (Jun 1998)
• The contending discourses on women in Iran
  Farideh Farhi (Jun 1998)
• Women and rural finance
  Jayati Ghosh (Jun 1998)
• Manzini fronts women's fight
  Muharyani Othman (May 1998)
• Women in India's trafficking belt
  Meena Menon (Feb/Mar 1998)
• Ghezali's dangerous beat
  Julie Wheelwright (Jan 1998)
• Who is Ramona?
  Terry Wolfwood (Aug 1997)
• Sexual exploitation in Cambodia
  Dr Wendy Freed (May/Jun 1997)
• Gender violence in Guatemala
  Victoria Rich (Oct 1996)
• The plight of Sri Lankan women
  Kalinga Seneviratne (Jan/Feb 1996)