Ali Abdullah Saleh, the beleaguered president of Yemen, should have known better. Fighting for his political life (and perhaps for his physical life too), he played the woman card. After last Friday's prayers, he tried to dampen down the escalating protests against his rule by admonishing women to stay home. He claimed that their presence in the streets, “mingling with men,” was against Islam. His ploy backfired.
Women's education around the world has become an objective for many organizations across the globe. From UNICEF to the Nike Foundation, organizations are committed to the education and future well-being of girls in the world's most war-torn and impoverished regions, the breeding ground of extremism.
Having a job allows us to treat our family with tasty food, enjoy friendships with our colleagues and most importantly see our personal contribution in helping the country prosper. Employment and creation of new jobs is one of government priorities.
Considering the scope and complexity of this task, partnerships of state organizations, private business and civil society institutions are crucial.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a film documenting how the hopes and dreams of women, indigenous and disadvantaged groups in Nepal were fused into the country's new constitution.
The Ethnographic and Art Museum at Birzeit University announces a call for participation in a future exhibition planned for September 2011.
The exhibition is a critical exploration of the transformations in representations of women in Palestinian visual arts within a changing political context since the 70s.
THE result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up; family size is stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India's already skewed infant sex ratio is getting worse. India counted only 914 girls aged six and under for every 1,000 boys or 75.8m girls and 82.9m boys. This sex ratio is the worst in the recorded history of the modern Indian.
