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Event (DC): Enhancing Access to Justice for Women–Indonesia’s Experiences
ABSTRACT :The Justice for the Poor program in Indonesia has considerable experience of working in the area of women’s legal empowerment and access to justice. Its work with women-headed households and women paralegals show that enhancing legal knowledge is critical to securing basic rights and one’s economic livelihood. The speaker will provide a brief overview of >> Read more
Event (DC): Ensuring Vulnerable Women’s Autonomy Through Economic Independence and Professional Integration:Morocco’s Accomplishments of the Millennium Development Goals
ABSTRACT: In recent years the Kingdom of Morocco has made important strides in achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set out by the United Nations. One of the MDGs is the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women. Aicha Ech-Channa will discuss her 25-year experience as a social activist defending the rights of women and >> Read more
Resource: Rural Women in the Developing World by Khushi Kabir
The Bangladeshi campaigner for lifting women out of poverty says village life has been wrongly idealised. It is not a harmonious whole with the elders looking after the interests of all the villagers alike, without prejudices of class or gender. Things are improving for women and girls, she says, but there is a long way >> Read more
News: United Nations Report Focuses on Global Lot of Women
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR (NYT) Women have made progress in areas like health and education, but they still lag over all, according to the U.N. report, World’s Women 2010. read more
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Publication: Farmers in a changing climate–does gender matter?
This report presents the findings of research undertaken in six villages in two drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh, India, Mahbubnagar and Anantapur. The study, carried out by an international team led by FAO, used gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document the trends in more...
Event (DC): World Bank Africa’s Chief Economist, Shanta Devarajan, launches “Gender Disparities in Africa’s Labor Markets”
Monday, November 1 at 12pm in J1-050 To RSVP, email infoshopevents@worldbank.org or click here. MODERATOR: Shanta Devarajan Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in >> Read more
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