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Gender Action's new case study, Haiti's National Housing Policy: Will it Work for Women? demonstrates that the Haitian government's World Bank-supported draft National Housing Policy risks burdening the poor, especially women, with expensive and unobtainable housing by relying on private solutions. The case study concludes with recommendations for strengthening the Policy to ensure that projects are affordable and accessible to all, especially the 1.5 million Haitians that remain displaced, almost three years after the January 2010 earthquake. This case study is also available in French: La Politique Nationale du Logement: Aidera-t-elle les Haitiennes?

Malawi President Joyce Banda and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf delivered blunt advice Monday to those seeking ways to translate the principle of gender equality into practice: “Listen to the women.”

Today the United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign announced its partnership with the organization Girls on the Run International, which will provide girls with opportunities to stand up for themselves and for girls across the globe and increase awareness of issues that adolescent girls everywhere face.

Over the past 25 years only one in 40 peace treaty signatories have been women. A new report shows women are significantly missing from peace negotiations. How do countries compare for female participation?

With the emergence of conflicts following the 2007 post election violence, it is unlikely that Kenya will attain the cherished vision 2030. But with the involvement of women countrywide, cases of insecurity could be minimized as happened in northern Kenya recently, since women understand what peace is all about than men counterparts.

When South African women marched against the discriminatory laws of Apartheid in 1956, their rally cry

HAVE you heard the latest news? Iliesa Delana, our very own Fijian home-grown athlete won a gold medal at the Paralympic Games in London recently.

VISITING newly elected Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has called upon women here to push back the frontiers of sexism by strengthening their participation in decision making in their countries and in the continent.

MONGOLIA: Thanks to the vast mineral wealth inside the region, Mongolia is now showing progress toward the reduction of poverty nationwide. Men, as well as women and their children, throughout Mongolia are now inline to receive a boost from the Mongolian economy because of this, but other sectors inside the nation still need improvement.

Security forces in Iraq have arrested Eman ”Dakhiliya”, who run one of the worse trafficking chains in Baghdad. Her criminal network, involved in sexual slavery, has also been dispersed. This is a huge victory for the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq, OWFI, who has campained against her for a long time.