Posted by sabina on December 1, 2009
First day of "Women at Work, Women as Leaders" seminar. Credit:Luis Gamero/IPS
By Ángel Páez
LIMA, Nov 30 (IPS) - “The press will change when they cease to report exclusively from a masculine point of view,” Peru’s deputy Minister for Women, Norma Añaños, told participants at an international seminar for journalists on “Women at Work, Women as Leaders”, held in the Peruvian capital.
Añaños’ reproach referred especially to the way the media reported the 116 femicides (gender-based murders of women) perpetrated by the victims’ partners in Peru between January and October, mostly within the home setting.
“Nearly all the murders were reported in the crime sections, which is in itself a form of discrimination,” said Añaños. “It gives the impression that, for the press, women are only important and make the front page when they are killed. This must change,” she insisted.
The Nov. 26-28 seminar was organised by the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency, the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women’s Rights (CLADEM) and the Calandria Association of Social Communicators, and was sponsored by the Dutch government’s Third Millennium Development Goal Fund (MDG3 Fund).
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Posted by sabina on November 28, 2009
Bolivian Quechua leader in meeting on women's access to land. Credit: Franz Chavez/IPS
Franz Chávez
LA PAZ, Nov 27 (IPS) - Despite major advances in land distribution in Bolivia, single, widowed and undocumented women in this South American country have little chances of owning rural lands due to the patriarchal traditions and customary practices of indigenous peoples, in violation of international instruments and conventions protecting women’s rights.
The struggle of Bolivian women to own productive land is only just beginning, representatives from such diverse geographical areas as the Andean highlands, the Amazon jungle and the dry Chaco lowlands said to IPS at a women’s movement meeting in La Paz earlier this month. More »
Posted by admin on November 11, 2009
Four prominent human rights advocates, including two members of Honduran Feminists in Resistance, testified before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission on Monday November 2nd on the precise nature and scope of human rights violations that women have experienced at the hands of the police, military and other security agents of the defacto regime. Violence against women has increased in the past four months as women’s leadership in the resistance to the coup has grown.
As part of the testimony, the Honduran Feminists in Resistance presented a summary of a report compiled from a fact-finding mission and from the Observatorio de Trangresión Feminista (Feminist Transformation Watch) organized by the Petateras, Radio Feminista, JASS, and other allies.
The advocates also met with members of Congress and the US State Department on Tuesday November 3rd to caution them that elections held in a context of repression and without the reinstatement of constitutional order will not be legitimate and could only lead to further unrest.
For further information visit: http://www.justassociates.org/actions/honduras_action_coup.html.
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IPS América Latina will hold its first seminar about the Third Millennium Development Goal, on November 26-28 in Lima, Peru. The seminar is about “Equidad de género, objetivo esencial del milenio - igualdad laboral y participación política, dos de sus prioridades” (Gender Equality, a key goal of the Millennium – Job equality and political participation, two priorities).
Calandria and Cladem NGOs, both partners of IPS MDG3 project, will co-organise the meeting, which also has the support of a key Peruvian women’s rights organization, the Asociación de Desarrollo Comunal (to support women in the informal economy), Demus, and the 9000-memberAsociación Nacional de Periodistas de Perú, which actively promotes gender perspective within the media. More »
Posted by admin on November 6, 2009
IPS América Latina desarrollará su primer seminario nacional sobre el Tercer Objetivo de Desarrollo del Milenio entre los días 26 y 28 de noviembre en Lima. El título del seminario es “Equidad de género, objetivo esencial del milenio” y tiene como subtítulo “igualdad laboral y participación política, dos de sus prioridades”. More »
Posted by sabina on October 19, 2009
La Casa de la Mujer es una organización de derechos humanos feminista que desde 1982 se ha dedicado a la promoción, protección y defensa de los derechos humanos de las mujeres, con el propósito de contribuir al ejercicio de su ciudadanía plena.
La Casa trabaja en diferentes regiones del país con mujeres víctimas de violencias dentro y fuera del conflicto armado.
En el desarrollo de sus acciones La Casa ha consolidado alianzas nacionales e internacionales y ha contribuido a la creación y fortalecimiento de espacios y organizaciones de mujeres.
En este proceso ha contado con el apoyo político y financiero de agencias internacionales, en esta oportunidad, con el Fondo Holandés MDG3, creado por el Ministerio de Cooperación para el desarrollo, Bert Koenders, que busca, a través del Proyecto Estrategia Nacional de Lucha por una Vida Libre de Violencias para las Mujeres en Medio del Conflicto en Colombia, financiar actividades que promuevan el Tercer Objetivo de Desarrollo del Milenio, el de equidad de género y el empoderamiento de la mujer.
En el marco de este proyecto, la Casa de la Mujer adelanta a través de estrategias de formación y asesoría, acciones para la exigibilidad de derechos a la verdad, la justicia y la reparación de 800 mujeres víctimas de violencias en el marco del conflicto armado en Colombia que contribuyen a su reconocimiento como sujetas de derechos y el fortalecimiento de sus organizaciones.
El objetivo de estas acciones es contribuir en la disminución de las desigualdades basadas en las diferencias de género en un marco de promoción, respeto y protección integral de los derechos humanos de las mujeres en Colombia que permita avanzar en la realización del objetivo No. 3 de los objetivos del Mileno.
Este proceso se adelanta en las regiones de Putumayo, Cauca, Bolívar, Chocó, Antioquia y Bogotá.
La propuesta, es desarrollada por La Casa de La Mujer en alianza con 25 organizaciones de mujeres y mixtas, y además con la Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres, el Comité de América Latina y Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer, CLADEM, y la Red Feminista Latinoamericana y del Caribe por una Vida Libre de Violencias para las Mujeres.
Hasta el momento aproximadamente 600 mujeres, representantes de más de 50 organizaciones sociales han participado como beneficiarias del proyecto.
Posted by sabina on October 14, 2009
Six journalists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela win the second edition of the “Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals” Journalism Award. Four of the winners are women, and three of the awarded stories deal extensively with gender issues.
The competition, run by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Inter Press Service (IPS), awards the best reporting on the Millennium Development Goals in the region. More »
Posted by sabina on June 4, 2009
Peter Mollema, Deputy Amb.Royal Embassy of the Netherlands, Ferial Haffajee, Editor City Press newspaper, Govin Reddy, IPS Africa Board Member and Dr Kerrin Myres, WITS Business School.
Gender equality was critical to improving progress on delivery of the Millennium Development Goals, deputy ambassador of the Royal Embassy of Netherlands, Peter Mollema told participants at an Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa public forum to mark Africa Day.
The May 25, 2009 event also marked the launch of the IPS Gender Wire which is one of the organisation’s MDG3 “Communicating for Change: Voice, Visibility and impact for Gender Equality” project funded by the Dutch Government’s MDG3 fund.
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Posted by admin on April 23, 2009
By Elizabeth Eames Roebling
SANTO DOMINGO, Apr 23 (IPS) A truck full of female police officers,
dressed in black riot protection gear, pulled up in front of the General
Assembly building here to confront and control the crowd of women who had
gathered on Tuesday to protest a "right to life" amendment to
the Dominican constitution.
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Posted by admin on April 22, 2009
Daniela Estrada interviews MARCELA RÍOS, editor of a book on gender
quotas
SANTIAGO, Apr 22 (IPS) Electoral quota laws that set a minimum threshold
for women on candidate lists have enabled more women to be elected,
contributed to gender empowerment and driven cultural changes, says
Marcela Ríos, the Chilean editor of a book that carries out an
in-depth analysis of the impact of such laws.
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