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Women’s History Month

Women’s History Month is an annual declared month in the which honours and celebrates women’s contribution to the arts, sciences, politics and society. Throughout March, events and activities take place throughout schools and public institutions in the United States; a specific theme is chosen each year. In 2009, Women’s History Month has honoured women who […]

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Women’s Information Technology Transfer (WITT)

WITT is a European network working in the field of Gender, Transformation, and Information and Communication Technologies. WITT envisions Europe as a place of real democracy in power where genders are completely equal, and women are recognised as driving force of the continent and their inputs to the society are highlighted. Goals Raising the awareness […]

Women’s Initiatives For Gender Justice

Table of Contents 1 History 2 Mission 3 Objectives 4 Projects 5 Publications 6 More Information History From 1997 until March 2003 the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice brought together women’s human rights advocates from around the world to the negotiations towards the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to firmly ingrain the principles […]

Women’s International Center (WIC)

Women’s International Center [WIC] was founded in 1982 as a non-profit education and service foundation with the mission  to ‘acknowledge, honor, encourage and educate women’. Living Legacy Awards Since its inception WIC has fulfilled its purpose in many ways. Beginning in 1983 the Living Legacy Awards (LLA) began to acknowledge and honour women. For twenty-four […]

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an international non government organization with national sections, covering all continents with an international secretariat based in Geneva, and a New York office focused on the work of the . Since its establishment in 1915, WILPF has worked to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, […]

Women’s legal empowerment

The ability to and to claim, use, and defend land and other natural resource tenure rights – of individuals and groups – is contingent on processes of empowerment. Women face additional hurdles to empowerment, ranging from their status within the household and community to their status under customary and/or statutory law. While many countries make […]

Women’s Parliament (Israel)

Table of Contents 1 Women’s Parliament:  Platform for politics from another perspective 2 The impact of the Parliament 3 See also 4 References Women’s Parliament:  Platform for politics from another perspective Israel’s Women’s Parliament is a platform for critical and feminist debates on the prevailing policies and discourse in Israel. The Women’s Parliament was founded in […]

Women’s participation in the labour market in Thailand

Table of Contents 1 Female Labour in Thailand 2 Participation of women in labour market divided into economic sectors 2.1 Measures to help SMEs 3 Aid of Thai government 3.1 Chapter3: Employment of Female Labour 4 CEDAW and MDGs with Women Participation 5 Conclusion 6 See also 7 References 8 Group 1 9 Feedback Female […]

Women’s Political Empowerment

Although most women around the world have the right to vote, there is still a big disparity between the number of women and men who are actively involved in politics. Table of Contents 1 Women as Elected Officials 2 Suffrage 3 Sources 4 See also Women as Elected Officials There is minimal correlation between women […]

Women’s political participation in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia

The (UN-INSTRAW) and the Centre for Arab Women Training and Research (CAWTAR) have initiated a project on “Strengthening women’s leadership and participation in politics and decision-making in , and “, financed by the Government of Spain. Table of Contents 1 Participation of women in politics  2 Project priorities 3 Women politicians heading electoral lists in […]

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