María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco nació en la Ciudad de México en 1778. Hija de una familia aristócrata, fue conocida por su belleza e inteligencia, pero sobre todo haber sido una mujer que actuó de manera poco común para su época, ya que se casó tres veces y apoyó la causa de la Independencia de […]

Table of Contents 1 “Undocuqueer” 2 Intersecting Discrimination 3 Solidarity between LGBTQ and Immigration Rights Movements 4 Art of the Undocuqueer Project 5 See also 6 References 7 External links “Undocuqueer” In March 2013, the Williams Institute at UCLA released a report on the number of immigrants in the . LGBT collectively refers to the […]

On 1 February 2009, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, ‘s longest serving MP, became ‘s first prime minister and the first openly gay prime minister in the world. She takes the leadership of government in the midst of a financial crisis that sparked protests in the streets of Iceland after the collapse of their banking system and the […]

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל‎, Tzva HaHagana LeYisra’el (help·info), lit. Defense Army for Israel), commonly known in by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal (צה”ל), are Israel’s military forces, comprising the ground forces, air force and navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, and has no civilian jurisdiction […]

Irène Joliot-Curie (12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a scientist, the daughter of and Pierre Curie. Jointly with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, she was awarded the for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. This made the Curies the family with most Nobel laureates to date. Table of Contents 1 Early […]

Irina Gueorguieva Bokova (Born on 12 July, 1952 in Sofia, ) is the Ambassador of Bulgaria to and a Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. On 22 September 2009, she was elected Director-General of , which made her the first woman and the first Eastern European to take this role. Table of Contents 1 Early Life 2 […]

This article is the 11th in a series of articles related to Wikiprogress. Wikigender has organised an online discussion on “” together with , (Män för Jämställdhet) and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It is the first time that Wikigender hosted a discussion on such a topic and from the very diverse range of […]

Intersectionality (also referred to as intersectional analysis or intersectionality theory) is an analytical tool for understanding and responding to the ways gender identity intersects with and is constituted by other social factors such as race, age, ethnicity and sexual orientation. Theory and Feminist Thought Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw of UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, […]

This article was written by Group 12 in , as part of the . Table of Contents 1 Informal workers in Thailand 2 Problems facing informal workers 3 The Japan International Labor Foundation 4 Women informal workersIsis International,(2006).Thailand’s Working Class WomenRetrieve 2 October 2006 5 References 6 See also 7 Group 12 Informal workers in […]

Table of Contents 1 Constitutional Provisions and Privileges 2 Laws relating to women 3 Laws relating to working women 4 Laws relating to marriage & divorce 5 Laws relating to maintenance 6 Laws relating to abortion 7 Laws relating to property, succession, inheritance, guardianship & adoption 8 Laws relating to children 9 Offences against women […]