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7 Oct 2011, 12:42 pm
Like all three figures honored by the Nobel Committee today, untold scores of women around the world are organizing for peace and justice. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 9:30 am
(NIWRC) is a Native nonprofit organization that was created specifically to serve as the National Indian Resource Center (NIRC) Addressing Domestic Violence and Safety for Indian Women. [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 4:01 am
Credit: UN Photo/DN (http://www.un.org/en/sc/about/) The most recent and very controversial resolution of the United Nations Security Council(UNSC) Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, Resolution 2242 of 2015, has started to be implemented by the member states: a very recent example is Bosnia and Herzegovina. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 2:45 pm
The new organization already boasts 700 members. [read post]
9 Mar 2018, 12:01 am
Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS) is a nonprofit, public interest organization based in Boston, Mass., that develops and promotes evidence-based information on girls’ and women’s reproductive health and sexuality. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 9:10 am
Human rights organizations, including the UN, have urged countries to end FGM practices for years. [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 2:45 pm
Instead, it was a quaint fiction crafted by convention organizer Frances Dana Gage and other white feminists who depicted Truth to white audiences as a genuine albeit primitive ally in the fight for women’s rights. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 5:06 am
The Librarians' Index to the Internet (2/8/2007)points us to The White House Project: AdvancingWomen's Leadership, a web collection of reportson women's leadership roles in areas such aspolitics and the media.The White House Project is "a national, nonpartisan,not-for-profit organization, [that] aims to advancewomen's leadership in all communities and sectors. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 8:42 am
In 2003, NCAI created the NCAI Task Force on Violence Against Women to address and coordinate an organized response to national policy issues regarding violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 7:04 am
I’ve just returned from sunny Brisbane, Australia, where I had the pleasure of participating in a two-day expert workshop hosted by IntLawGrrl Susan Harris Rimmer of Griffith University Law School (pictured left) and co-organized by Kate Ogg of the Australian National University College of Law (pictured below right). [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 8:04 am
”She also challenged the audience to ask whether women in their organizations are playing roles of equal importance to the men and if not, why? [read post]
28 Aug 2023, 2:00 am
When organizations support their persuasive efforts, women can exercise influence far beyond what they imagine today. [read post]
28 Aug 2023, 2:00 am
When organizations support their persuasive efforts, women can exercise influence far beyond what they imagine today. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 1:00 pm
Reviewer Jason McCollom (University of Arkansas) offers this concise summary:The author claims that DeVoe's career demonstrates how local and state suffrage organizations in the West related to the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and how these organizations raised and spent money, as well as showing how suffragists actually accomplished the hard work of long-distance travel, persuasion, and politicking. [read post]
28 Feb 2005, 2:43 pm
[JURIST] Ten years after the world's nations pledged to achieve equality for women in the Beijing Declaration [text], the progress meeting organized by the UN Commission on the Status of Women [official website] started Monday with controversy over American insistence that abortion should not be recognized as a human right. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 4:51 am
” Like any other community, it has its own impenetrable jargon (“gender mainstreaming”) and its own Scripture–most notably UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which created both official UN language affirming women’s roles in conflict prevention and resolution and a structure (National Action Plans) for nation-states and international organizations to plan and report on their progress in integrating gender perspectives in… [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 6:32 am
In today’s innovation based economy, an organization can’t afford to overlook the unique talent and ingenuity that women bring to the workplace. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 9:30 am
It is sponsored by the Arizona Women Lawyers Association and the Native American Bar Association of Arizona; and co-sponsored by the Arizona Women Lawyers Association, the State Bar’s Committee on Minorities and Women in the Law and Young Lawyers Division and National Bank of Arizona. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 8:18 pm
NIOSH contributed to this Action Plan, specifically related to reducing exposures to occupational agents that can harm reproductive health and fertility in women and men.Environmental and occupational hazards account for an unknown proportion of infertility cases, but are known to affect reproductive health and fertility in women and men, and suspected of causing declining human sperm quality in industrialized countries.[2], [3], [4] An evaluation conducted in developed… [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 6:39 am
On June 14, 2019, Swiss women organized a strike to highlight the gender inequalities in Swiss society and particularly disparities in wages. [read post]
