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This week, government delegates and women’s organizations from around the world are gathering at the United Nations to evaluate progress towards reaching the goals for gender equality set in Beijing 10 years ago.
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A U.N. review panel in 2006 called for the creation of a comprehensive women’s agency to oversee all U.N. efforts on behalf of women. Two years later, activists are trying to push the effort back on track.
In a warm-up meeting ahead of a major global-warming gathering in Bali in December, advocates pressed negotiators to include more women in the process and pay more attention to women’s special expertise and exposure to climate change.
In the former Yugoslav republics, dating violence is common and boys are typically reared to understand force. One organization is using educational brochures and school workshops to teach teens an alternative.
When the world’s wealthiest nations meet at the G-8 summit in Germany this week, aid workers plan to remind them that education pledges they made to children–the majority of them girls–are not being met in the world’s worst conflict zones.
A month after a booming Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization, a U.N. committee flags violations of women’s rights, especially in rural areas. Democracy activists plan to broadcast the findings in underground media and lobby Vietnam’s trade partners
The new director of the World Health Organization has made maternal and reproductive health issues a top priority for the global health agency. But critics say that U.S. policies hinder those efforts and funding still falls short of ambitions.
Two oil pipelines in Russia and the Caucasus boosted prostitution and poverty according to a recent report. Authors hope the findings will heighten awareness of gender-related development needs at this weekend’s World Social Forum in Kenya.
A U.N. report urges the creation of a single women’s agency with higher standing. The study follows another U.N. report on global violence that may spur the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign starting Nov. 25.
Around the world, 51 million girls and teens are married so young that they face special health risks and higher rates of poverty. A Senate bill asks for more funding to fight child marriage and advocates say the practice hinders development goals.