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  • Michelle Bachelet: ’To end Violence against Women, we must all UNiTE!’

    Michelle Bachelet: 'To end Violence against Women, we must all UNiTE!'

    [Brussels, 25 November 2010] On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet delivered a statement calling on governments, private enterprises, civil society groups, communities - including cultural and religious communities - and individual citizens, men and women, to join together to end violence agsint women. Bachelet also highlighted the lack of sufficient resources (...) Read more

  • UN Elects Executive Board of New UN Women

    UN Elects Executive Board of New UN Women

    [New York, 10 November 2010] UN Member States today took the next step in enabling the newly-created United Nations agency on gender equality and women’s empowerment to begin its work by electing countries to serve on its Executive Board.
    The elections, held in the 54-member Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), will enable the new Board to come together prior to the official establishment on 1 January 2011 of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). The (...) Read more

  • Pay gap: the need for a European strategy and national action plans

    Pay gap: the need for a European strategy and national action plans

    The average hourly pay gap between women and men remains at 18% within the European Union and, on an annual basis at 24%, according to the European Report released by the Belgian Presidency; in real terms the difference ranges between 6% and 34%. These figures have led Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment and Equal Opportunities, Joëlle Milquet to make the struggle against unequal pay one of three priorities for her equal opportunities programme during the Belgian Presidency of (...) Read more

  • UN prepares for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

    UN prepares for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

    Violence against women is widespread in every corner of the globe: from the bedroom to the battlefield. Women and girls suffer many forms of violence, including genital mutilation, rape, beatings by their partners, families or killings in the name of honour. It is shocking that in women’s lifetime, up to 76 per cent are subject to physical and/or sexual violence within intimate relationships. Discrimination in law, social practice and attitude, impunity and apathy are the underlying (...) Read more

  • FEMM Committee says quotas for boards of private companies necessary

    FEMM Committee says quotas for boards of private companies necessary

    [European Parliament, Brussels, 29 October 2010] "If we want to achieve our objectives, we have to take measures such as introducing quotas, however it has to be part of an overall policy", said Greek MEP Rodi KRATSA-TSAGAROPOULOU (EPP) during in a public hearing of the Women’s Rights Committee issuing "Women and business leadership". It is also important that women have to be prepared to assume the role we are hoisting on them, concluded Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou.
    The output of the public (...) Read more

  • UN Peacekeepers to Receive Special Training on Sexual Violence

    UN Peacekeepers to Receive Special Training on Sexual Violence

    By Amy Lieberman, WeNews correspondent
    [New York, 22 October 2010] Margot Wallstrom, the U.N. special representative on sexual violence in conflict, returned last week from the scene of a recent mass rape attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo sounding resolved to change the way U.N. peacekeepers are trained.
    Following the attacks, U.N. authorities have faulted peacekeepers for not investigating warning signs, such as village roadways that perpetrators had blocked off to entrap the (...) Read more

  • Endangered species summits - challenge the culture that teaches women and girls to hate their own bodies

    Endangered species summits - challenge the culture that teaches women and girls to hate their own bodies

    Endangered Species is an international summit planned for March 2011. The aim is to save future generations of girls from the misery that turns women against their own bodies. The challenge – to make people understand how and why this is an emergency, to show them how they can do something about it, and to inspire them to embrace change.
    At the London Summit, individuals and groups from the UK and Ireland will be joined by initiatives throughout Europe to showcase the work they are already (...) Read more

  • CEDAW adopts Recommendation on implementation of article 2 against discrimination

    CEDAW adopts Recommendation on implementation of article 2 against discrimination

    [New York, 27 October 2010] The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has adopted General Recommendation No. 28: on Article 2 of the Convention:
    "The Committee adopted a detailed general recommendation on Article 2 of the Convention in which it reaffirmed that discrimination of women based on sex and gender was inextricably linked with other factors that affected women, such as race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation and gender (...) Read more

  • Maternity rights: European Parliament votes for more equality between women and men and a more sustainable future!

    Maternity rights: European Parliament votes for more equality between women and men and a more sustainable future!

    [Brussels, 20 October 2010] The European Parliament today by a large majority passed a Resolution in favour of substantially increasing European minimum standards for maternity and paternity leave provisions. In what supporters are lauding a great victory for the women and men living in Europe, the Parliament approved an increase of maternity leave provisions from 14 weeks to 20 weeks and the introduction of two weeks leave for new fathers, both fully paid.
    ‘This is an incredibly important (...) Read more

  • Violence against women widespread across the world, says UN

    Violence against women widespread across the world, says UN

    [New York, 20 October 2010] Violence against women remains widespread across the world, exacerbated by traditions and customary practices that determine the way women are treated in families, places of work and communities, according to a United Nations report unveiled today.
    The scourge “is an obstacle to the achievement of the objectives of equality, development and peace,” according to The World’s Women 2010: Trend and Statistics, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social (...) Read more

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