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Women and Migration

While migration used to be a very South-North phenomenon, today the situation is very different, as a lot of migration flows remain in the South hemisphere. Also, while men used to make the majority of migrants, women increasingly migrate as well; this has both positive and negative effects on women and on their families. In […]

  • January 25, 2012
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Progress on MDG3

This article is the fourth in a series of articles related to Wikiprogress. With 4 years to go, there is very little time to achieve the (MDGs). In particular, the outcome document of the 2010 MDG Summit recognised the many interlinkages between the MDGs and identified a number of cross-cutting interventions in order to drive […]

Migration: a gender perspective

This article is the seventh in a series of articles related to Wikiprogress. The benefits of migration in terms of economic development and country progress have been widely recognised both for sending and receiving countries, and at individual level mobility is an essential part of our lives today. This article tries to look at migration […]

Constitutional Provisions regarding Women in India

Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Specific Provisions 3 See also 4 External links Introduction The Constitution of India not only grants equality to women but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favour of women for neutralizing the cumulative socio-economic, education and political disadvantages faced by them. Fundamental Rights, among […]

  • January 29, 2012
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Empowering Rural Women

SUMMARY REPORT PRESENTED AT CSW. The online discussion is now closed. You can access the full transcript of the online discuss here. Summary Report Table of Contents 1 Online Discussion on Rural Women 1.1 About 1.2 Context 1.3 Guiding questions 1.4 Contribute! 2 CSW side event: Empowering women through the transformation of discriminatory social institutions […]

  • February 1, 2012
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“Young women and political participation: institutional and informal mobilization paving the way to future actions”

File:Logo_cawtar.JPG|Cawtar logo File:Logo_IDRC.JPG|IDRC logo Table of Contents 1 « Young women and political participation: institutional and informal mobilization paving the way to future actions» 1.1 1/ The Research / knowledge production aspect 1.2 2/ Participation/ appropriation aspect 1.3 3/ Action aspect 2 « Jeunes femmes et participation politique en Tunisie: mobilisation informelle et participation institutionnelle […]

OECD Gender Browser

Press Release: OECD – Paris, 5 March 2012 According to the , only one in ten board members of top companies are women. Women are still under-represented in top corporate jobs, despite efforts in many countries to promote their participation on boards, according to new OECD data. The OECD’s new Gender Browser reveals that women […]

United Nations Rio+20 Conference

Table of Contents 1 About 2 Gender and the Rio+20 Conference 3 See also 4 References 5 External links About The United Nations Conference on Sustainable development will take place in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de […]

World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education

To mark International Women’s Day 2012, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics have jointly released the World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education, which includes over 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators. The vivid presentation of information and analysis calls attention to persistent gender […]

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