Bojana Stoparic, Author at Women's eNews

U.N. Takes Measure of Women’s Equality

By Bojana Stoparic ● Employment ● October 2, 2009

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.

New-Improved Women’s Agency Vies for U.N. Priority

By Bojana Stoparic ● Politics ● March 6, 2008

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.

Women Turn Up Gender-Equity Heat at Climate Talks

By Bojana Stoparic ● Crime & Law ● September 25, 2007

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.

Dating Violence Warnings Candy-Wrapped in Croatia

By Bojana Stoparic ● Politics ● September 6, 2007

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.

G-8 Faces Lesson on School Girls in Battle Zones

By Bojana Stoparic ● Politics ● June 5, 2007

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.

Vietnam’s Boom Found Backfiring on Women

By Bojana Stoparic ● Politics ● February 15, 2007

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