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Women’s Rights in the Arab World Poll – Thomson Reuters

The Women’s Rights in the Arab World Poll refers to the November 2013 survey by the Thomson Reuters Foundation that assessed and ranked 22 Arab states on the following indicators: violence against women, reproductive rights, treatment of women within the family, women’s integration into society, and attitudes towards a woman’s role in politics and the […]

Women’s Shelters

A women’s shelter is a place of temporary refuge and support for women escaping violent situations, such as , and . Shelters provide a safe place of refuge for battered women. Women who have experienced physical and / or psychological abuse may seek support and refuge at a shelter. Women seeking help may decide themselves, […]

Women’s Suffrage

The term women’s suffrage refers to the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage, that is, the right to vote, to women. The right to women’s suffrage was enshrined in the 1948 and the 1979 . Table of Contents 1 Early history – 19th century movements 2 Suffrage in the 20th century 3 […]

Women’s WORLD

Women’s WORLD, a global free speech network of feminist writers, was founded in 1994 to defend women writers under attack and to develop programs to enable them to have a stronger public voice. Table of Contents 1 Mission 2 Activities 3 History 4 Sources Mission Women’s World Organization for Rights, Literature, and Development, or Women’s […]

Workplace Gender Equality Agency

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) is an Australian Government statutory agency charged with promoting and improving gender equality in Australian workplaces. The Agency is responsible for administering the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Act). The Workplace Gender Equality Agency was formerly known as the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency. WGEA work […]

Workshop: Diversity, inclusiveness and non discrimination in the world of work

In this ITC-ILO workshop (23-27 February 2015) we will analyze exclusion and indirect and intersectional discrimination mechanism and how they can be prevented. The workshop will particularly tackle discriminatory grounds related to gender, persons with disability and LGBTI and will look at national and organization level policies and practices using the Human Rights Based approach […]

World AIDS day

World AIDS Day is held on 1 December each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day and the first one was held […]

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 […]

World Conference of Women’s Shelters

The Global Network of Women’s Shelters (GNWS), the Dutch Foundation of Women’s Shelters and its partners organise the 3rd World Conference of Women’s Shelters from 3-6 November 2015 in The Hague – the Netherlands. Previous conferences were successful but continuous action is crucial: violence against women and children still occurs on a large scale and […]

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