07 March 2010 - More than thirty female police officers have today begun training in Gender, Child Protection and Community Policing courses before their deployment for field duty assignments in all three Darfur states. The officers, who form UNAMID’s first-ever all female police contingent, had arrived in El Fasher late last month from Namibia and >> Read more
News: Land investments are wholesale sell-outs for women farmers
“Uncertainty around food and fuel supply globally has sparked investor interest in the acquisition of large parcels of productive land around the world, for commercial production or long-term investment, writes Nidhi Tandon. But these developments, which effectively take land away from local farmers and in many cases perpetuate ‘environmentally damaging farming methods’, threaten to have >> Read more
News: Women and Power
By: Helen Clark Source: Huffington Post As Prime Minister of my country for nine years and the first woman to lead the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), I believe that achieving gender equality is not only morally right, but also catalytic to development as a whole, creating political, economic, and social opportunities for women which >> Read more
News: Port-au-Prince Earthquake: Responses must address Gender
FRIDAY FILE: The impact of natural disasters is gendered and therefore responses to these disasters must be gender responsive. Six months after the earthquake in Haiti MADRE's Yifat Susskind spoke with AWID about the gendered impact of the earthquake, and described what a gender responsive approach to addressing the crisis would look like. AWID: What >> Read more
News: For the Love of Soccer and a Lasting Sisterhood
By WILLIAM C. RHODEN NY TIMES About 1:45 p.m. Sunday afternoon, a caravan of luxury cars and sport utility vehicles roared into the park where hundreds of supporters had been waiting. President Jacob Zuma had arrived. The president was in this town, about 260 miles northeast of Johannesburg, to commemorate the life of Peter Mokaba, >> Read more
News: U.N. Biodiversity Plan Demands Voice for Women
By Stephen Leahy IPS Genderwire NAIROBI, May 27, 2010 (IPS) - Women provide up to 90 percent of the rural poor's food and produce up to 80 percent of food in most developing countries, and yet they are almost completely ignored when policy decisions are made about agriculture and biodiversity. That's about to change thanks >> Read more
News: Giving Women Farmers a Boost in Nicaragua
By José Adán Silva Source: IPS Genderwire MANAGUA, Jun 1, 2010 (IPS) - Josefina Rodríguez very nearly lost her life trying to protect the small plot of farmland in rural Nicaragua that allows her to support her family. Twelve years ago her husband wanted to sell the land, and when she stood up to him, >> Read more
News: ICRW launches new Website
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) publicly launched new “broadband channel to the world.” Visit www.ICRW.org to see how ICRW makes women a central focus in alleviating and ultimately ending global poverty. Through the new site, you also can become more deeply connected to our work: Learn about ICRW’s work in more than 30 >> Read more
News: Rekha Mehra and David Kauck, ICRW, on issues facing women’s farmers
Rekha Mehra, director economic development, and David Kauck, senior gender and agriculture specialist, provide an insightful analysis on practical measures needed to address critical issues facing women farmers (particularly given the release of the new US govt. hunger and food security initiative) at the Katrine Chronicals Blog. Go to the post or read the text >> Read more
News: Better Data Key to Supporting Women Farmers
Source: IPS Genderwire By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE, May 20, 2010 (IPS) - An accomplished farmer who won the coveted Woman Farmer of the Year Award in 2008, Thabile Dlamini-Gooday wants to uplift the standard of other women in agriculture. She believes that if women farmers were to work together they could fight hunger and significantly >> Read more
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