News

6/3/2003
A national advocacy initiative targets the public, government officials, civic authorities, junior high and high school students, NGOs, and girls and young women at risk.
6/3/2003
The CSW focused on: the participation and access of women to the media, and information and communication technologies; and women’s human rights and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls.
6/3/2003
The Gulf state of Oman has appointed a woman minister for the first time.
5/3/2003
One year after the Gujarat genocide, a petition was delivered to the British Charity Commission, because the organisations which financed the massacres and the continuing communal violence are still enjoying charity status in Britain.
4/3/2003
The independent experts' assessment on the impact of armed conflict on women and women's role in peace-building.
4/3/2003
On International Women's Day women in over 70 countries will take Strike action to strengthen the hidden struggle of women all over the world for survival, against military budgets and killing economic priorities.
3/3/2003
Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future. By Tamim Ansary (salon.com).
27/2/2003
Indonesia's troubled Aceh province is to establish the country's first criminal court based on Sharia law.
27/2/2003
One year after the Gujarat genocide, we are holding this vigil outside the offices of the British Charity Commission, because the organisations which financed the massacres and the continuing communal violence are still enjoying charity status in Britain.
27/2/2003
In recent years there have been a number of highly publicised murders of women among the Asian migrant community in the UK related to choice in marriage.