Muslim Women: Building Institutions, Creating Change

May 28, 2009

Hundreds of Muslim women activists, academics, scholars, lawyers and community leaders from around the globe will meet in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between July 16 and 20, 2009 to build the infrastructure and network for Muslim women to join together, challenge the distorted interpretations of Islam and to increase the socio-economic self-determination of Muslim women in society.
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RIGHTS: Engaging Men in Gender Equality Efforts

April 2, 2009

By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 2 (IPS) How many men work in day care centres,
looking after children? How much paternity leave are men entitled to?
How many government programmes to combat domestic violence include
violent men themselves as part of the treatment?

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Gender Wire launched on International Women’s Day

March 8, 2009

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IPS is celebrating international women’s day with the launch of a new weekly newsletter, the Gender Wire.

Only 22% of the voices we hear and read in the news today belong to women. Gender Wire will cover frontline issues such as elections, health, education, armed conflicts, corruption, the global financial crisis, food insecurity, and climate change, asking an often forgotten question: What does this mean for women and girls? More »

DailyLinks@CSW newspaper

March 2, 2009

IPS partners with Gender Links and GEMSA to contribute features and news stories to the Daily Links @ CSW newspaper publishing at the 53rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meeting in New York. More »