Gender Stereotyping is a major problem that has gone unnoticed and unrealized over the years up to this day in the Solomon Islands.
A workshop on Gender facilitated by Peer Educators of the Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) Solomon Islands for members of the local media, NGO's, community and youth leaders revealed this yesterday.
The Women's League of Burma (WLB), a coalition of 13 women's organizations representing Burma's main ethnic groups, called on Wednesday for the inclusion of women in the country's ongoing efforts to end decades of ethnic conflict.
The Papua New Guinea parliament failed to pass a proposed Women's Bill to set aside seats for female candidates in time for this month's national elections.
But one candidate is still keen to increase female participation.
She's standing for the NCD regional seat and says she will focus on women's issues if she wins a seat in parliament.
Egyptian activists declared Wednesday, 13 June as the day to write about sexual harassment on social websites and blogs in an effort to combat the rising level of sexual violence in the country. The same event took place last year with large success that saw it spread to neighboring countries like Lebanon, Tunisia and Morocco.
It can be difficult to identify the exact moment that we are touched by change. But Ali Raad, a secondary school teacher from the Lebanese village of Baalbek, can trace one such moment to a community discussion, arranged by a local NGO. “I didn't know what gender was really about until I attended the training,” he recalled, referring to the work of the NGO, KAFA (Enough) Violence and Exploitation.
When the UK and USA entered Afghanistan in 2001 they made a promise to improve the lives of Afghan women. In the last ten years there has been some progress in terms of education, the right to work and the freedom of movement. However much remains to be done as Afghan women continue to face gendered discrimination and violence.
The Fiji National Council of Women says groups like it should be involved in a new government scheme that aims to teach business skills to women.
The NGO's comments are in response to the Ministry of Social Welfare's Women and Poverty Alleviation plan which is focussing on individuals rather than groups.
It will partner with Indonesia to empower Fiji women in new income generating projects, such as seaweed processing.
In a few hours a large group of Egyptian women will gather in Talaat Harb Sqaure in Cairo to protest against sexual harassment. Activists say the new wave of sexual violence seems more coordinated than ever before. Last week a group of demonstrators calling for an end to the sexual harassment of women were attacked by a group of men who reportedly ripped women's clothes off, groping and punching them as they marched across Tahrir Square.
This weekly update provides a snapshot of the United Nations and its partners' response to the influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey.
Razan Zaitouneh, a 34-year-old human rights lawyer from Syria, established SHRIL in 2005, the same year she co-founded the Human Rights Association in Syria (HRAS). Since Bashar al-Assad's regime imposed a ban on access for foreign journalists and human rights advocates, SHRIL has become one of the main sources of information abroad on the atrocities committed by army and police forces.
