The post 2015 development agenda: what's at stake for the world's women?

Valeria Costa-Kostritsky 6 March 2013

"We want to be included. We are still invisible in the process of consultation. We are the key stakeholders. Inequality is part of discrimination. We want inequality to be included in the goals"- Jhocas Castillo, community organiser in Manila. Valeria Costa-Kostritsky reports from the UN CSW

Mazí Mas, “with us”

Nikandre Kopcke 4 March 2013

Women have played a seminal role in keeping food cultures all over the world alive. Nikandre Kopcke discusses her inspiration for setting up a pop-up restaurant which showcases the culinary talents and diverse cultural heritages of migrant women in London.

Beyond a war of words: will the UN agree to act to end violence against women?

Valeria Costa-Kostritsky 4 March 2013

The 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women opens today with member States - and thousands of women's rights advocates and organisations - set to debate how to end violence against women. Valeria Costa-Kostritsky reports from New York

Gender violence in the media: elusive reality

Heather McRobie 1 March 2013

The death of Reeva Steenkamp has highlighted the problematic way in which the media treat the issue of domestic violence.  We need a better way to transmit and therefore tackle the reality – how violence is built into our lives and how space is gendered, says Heather McRobie.

Banning nuclear weapons: this time lip service will not be enough

Rebecca Johnson 26 February 2013

A new grassroots network  launches this week with the twin aims of scrapping Trident and persuading the UK to join other governments in multilateral negotiations to achieve a global treaty banning nuclear weapons. If we get our strategies right, the peace movement can win this one, says Rebecca Johnson. 

A transformative strategy: the true value of investing in women’s rights

Srilatha Batliwala 25 February 2013

What happened to the largest pot of money ever made available for advancing gender equality and human rights? Srilatha Batliwala reports on the results of AWID's aggregate analysis of the impact of the MDG 3 Fund.

Philanthropy towards asylum seekers: friend or foe?

Emily Bowerman 25 February 2013

Due attention must be given to the decision-making processes and rationales that underpin and politicise philanthropy towards asylum seekers in the UK. There is a danger that philanthropy may become complicit in sealing the borders of the state of exception in which asylum seekers are already positioned, says Emily Bowerman.

Beyond individual stories: women have moved mountains

Srilatha Batliwala 18 February 2013

Among all the social movements of the past century, the struggle for women’s rights and gender equality has been the most transformative in terms of the deep tectonic shifts it has created in the social terrain, yet skepticism about the value of funding women's rights work persists

'Traditional values' vs human rights at the UN

Maggie Murphy 18 February 2013

A dangerous process is taking place in the UN system that threatens the universality of human rights by seeking to make them contingent on subjective ‘traditional values’ such as ‘responsible behaviour’.

Togo: a country of strangers?

Mawusse Domefaa Atimasso 18 February 2013

Making peace in Togo is not a numbers game. Nor is it about searching to find out who was wrong in the past. As the next election approaches it is time to recreate our country’s history and invest in unity and peace, says Mawusse Domefaa  Atimasso.

Togo : un pays d’étrangers?

Mawusse Domefaa Atimasso 18 February 2013

Pour établir la paix au Togo, il ne faut pas faire de bilan ni chercher à savoir qui a eu tort dans le passé. A l’approche des élections il convient de réécrire l’histoire de notre pays et d’investir dans l’unité et dans la paix, dit Mawusse Domefaa Atimasso.

Vaginal obsessions in Turkey: an Islamic perspective

Sertaç Sehlikoğlu 18 February 2013

Recent controversies over women's sexuality, abortion and reproductive rights in Turkey reveal unacceptable violations of women’s sexual privacy by male politicians, says Sertaç Sehlikoglu

The February 15, 2003 protest ten years on: reflections on a decade

Samir Jeraj and Heather McRobie 17 February 2013

The demonstration on February 15, 2003 was the largest protest march in British history, but failed to stop the invasion of Iraq.  A reflection on how the protest, and the war, shaped a decade of politics and culture.

The youth of Shahbagh: A Bengali spring?

Ansar Ahmed Ullah 15 February 2013

Dhaka has been witnessing a youth uprising against Islamism in Bangladesh. The UK is also witnessing daily events in solidarity with demands to end to Islamist politics, and punishment for those responsible for war crimes committed during the Bangladesh War of Liberation in 1971

Violence, gender and HIV in the UK

Nell Osborne 14 February 2013

Internationally, the reciprocal links between HIV and gender based violence are well documented. Yet in the UK NHS guidelines about violence against women do not contain any reference to HIV. Today marks the launch of a report by the Sophia Forum calling for a national investigation

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