Tag Archives: women
Activists fight for the rights of HIV-positive women living in Peru
TweetThis post is a part of UN Women’s 1,000 Days for Action on the Millennium Development Goals, a countdown to the MDG deadline on 5 April 2015. Read more here about the current status of MDGs on gender equality. “I believe that, generally speaking, we tend to associate violence with manifestations of physical and sexual violence, and [...]
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Women in frontline service provision play a vital role and must be protected
TweetBy Ana Lukatela, UN Women‘s peace and security section programme specialist. This was originally posted in The Guardian. Nasima Bibi was one of the 16 female health workers murdered in co-ordinated attacks across Pakistan in December and January. And on 8 February nine, as yet unnamed, female health workers in northern Nigeria were killed in same manner – [...]
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Harassment and the law for women in Cairo
TweetThis is material from my blog Opinion Ate It The last year has been tumultuous in Egypt, for men and women. However, the recent constitution and continued protest marking the 2nd anniversary of the revolution, which ousted former ruler Hosni Mubarak have brought little reprieve to Egyptian women. Sexual harassment is so rampant that it [...]
Unmaking equality: Everyone can kill
TweetOn Thursday, January 24th Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the US military will lift the ban on women serving in combat. Many women’s groups and feminist activists saw this announcement as an unqualified victory. According to Kiki Cardenas, writing in Feministing’s Community blog in 2011, “People asked me: ‘Well, do you know what you would be [...]
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Hillary Clinton being a boss (video)