Category: Women Rights
April 1, AP – Badam Zari told The Associated Press on Monday that she will participate in the May 11 election to bring greater attention to problems facing women, which she believes the government has ignored. A 40-year-old Pakistani housewife has made history by becoming the first woman to run for parliament from the country’s […]
April 1, AP – With a comprehensive three day programme that covers general gynaecology in the morning and splits into specialized parallel sessions, the delegates will be able to pick and choose what is of interest to them The 5th Annual Obstetrics and Gynaecology Exhibition & Congress (Obs-Gyne), the Middle East and North Africa’s […]
March 31, AP – After one of the most high-profile campaigns in Kenyan history, 87 of the 416 seats in the newly-established National Assembly and Senate chambers will be held by women. Previously, just 22 women sat in the old 222-seat Parliament, which did not have a Senate. With the focus of local and international […]
March 28, LONDON (AP) — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban as she returned home from school, is writing a book about the traumatic event and her long-running campaign to promote children’s education. Publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson announced that it would release “I am Malala” in Britain and Commonwealth […]
March 28 AP- From China to Costa Rica, from Mali to Malaysia acclaimed singers and musicians, women and men, have come together to spread a message of unity and solidarity: We are “One Woman”. Launching on International Women’s Day, the song “One Woman” was written for UN Women, the global champion for women and girls […]
March 28, AP – Starting in July of 2012, as part of the Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women Campaign, eight groups of children and youth began efforts to engage their communities through a series of interactive theatre performances. In eight districts across two provinces of southern Bangladesh, community-based civil society organizations selected a […]
In Tanzania, as elsewhere in Africa, women bear the brunt of providing their communities with water, walking for miles each day to fetch water. In spite of their central role, women rarely have a voice in water supply and management schemes. Instead, they take on an unequal share of domestic tasks within their households, and […]
March 20 2013 To mark the first International Day of Happiness (20 March), we bring you the stories of change-makers whose daily efforts make many people happy, as they improve lives and help many to overcome hardships. Young Palestinian activists carry out their role in bringing about peace A journalist and a political activist in […]
New Delhi: March 20, AP – Louis, a French national, pursuing her undergraduate degree from St Stephen’s College, says sexual abuses are a global phenomenon and women are vulnerable in every society. With renewed attention on crimes against women in India, foreign nationals living in or visiting the country feel sexual abuse is a global […]
The 15-year-old joined other girls at Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham for her first day back at school on Tuesday, said Edelman, the public relations agency handling her media relations. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban, has returned to school for the first time since she was […]
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Human Rights Observers conference on Women’s rights and Environment
Human Rights Observers an organization in special status with UN ECOSOC has organized conference on Women’s rights and Environmental awareness Speaking on the occasion prominent senior advocate smt. Venkateshwari, stated that Violence against women and girls, a gross human rights violation, devastates lives, causes untold pain, suffering and illness. She has given various examples of […]
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