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PUBLICATION: Women and Landed Property in Urban India
This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place in these settlements and analyses their implications for women. She proceeds to raise >> Read more
Event (DC): What Did the 2010 International AIDS Conference Mean for Women?
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 2-4 pm 122 Cannon House Office Building Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Join the Women and Gender Working Group of the Global AIDS Roundtable in conjunction with the Office of Congresswoman Barbara Lee for a review and discussion of the 2010 International AIDS Conference (IAC) in Vienna. Recognizing that women have unique >> Read more
Opinion: “Three Early Moves for Michelle Bachelet’s UN “Start-Up” for Women”
Interesting commentary from Nandini OOmman on the CGD website, see the link below: http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/09/three-early-moves-for-michelle-bachelet%E2%80%99s-un-%E2%80%9Cstart-up%E2%80%9D-for-women.php?utm_source=nl_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_weekly_09202010
News: UN Foundation Commits $400 Million to Support Maternal, Child Health
UN Foundation Commits $400 Million to Support Maternal, Child Health Together with UN agencies and partner organizations, the UN Foundation will seek to address global health priorities, including childhood immunizations, malaria prevention, clean cooking solutions, and access to reproductive health services.... More»
Funding: Call for Proposals for the Fund for Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS
UNIFEM (part of UN Women), with the generous contribution of the Canadian International Development Agency, today launches a Call for Proposals for the Fund for Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS. The Fund will provide small, catalytic grants totalling US$700,000 in 2010 to grassroots and community-based organizations or networks in sub-Saharan >> Read more
Publication: “Gender Inequality and the MDGs: What are the Missing Dimensions?”
In view of the MDG summit in New York next week, this paper sheds light on the bottlenecks that continue to hinder progress across all the MDG targets. Using the OECD Development Centre’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), our research finds that the countries with the highest levels of discrimination against women are also >> Read more
Resource: MDG +10 Summit IPS Newsletter on ‘8 Goals through a Gender Lens’
http://www.ipsnews.net/genderwire/ipsmdg3terraviva.pdf
News: Educating Women Saves Children, Study Finds
LONDON (AP) — Giving young women an education resulted in saving the lives of more than four million children worldwide in 2009, according to a new study published Friday. American researchers analyzed 915 censuses and surveys from 175 countries tracking education, economic growth, H.I.V. infection rates and child deaths from 1970 to 2009. By using >> Read more
Event: 2011 IREX/WWC Regional Policy Symposium GENDER IN THE 21st CENTURY EASTERN EUROPE AND EURASIA
Application Deadline: December 10, 2010 IREX, in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Kennan Institute (WWC), is pleased to announce its 2011 Regional Policy Symposium, “Gender in the 21st Century Eastern Europe and Eurasia.” The research symposium, supported by the United States Department of State (Title VIII Program), will bring American >> Read more
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