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News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 83
Breaking Barriers: Why Free & Public Education Should be Every Womans Right
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Mar 10 (IPS) - This month, government and civil society organization representatives gathered in New York for the United Nations’ 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to discuss technology as a tool to facilitate access to education for women and girls.
Women in justice: Three trailblazing World Court judges send a powerful message
- UN News
On the International Day of Women Judges, three trailblazing women judges are sharing their stories and experiences on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where though they are in the minority – just four of the 15 justices are women – they see change on the horizon and say that “not for a minute” did they see gender as a disadvantage.
Breaking the Link between Polycrisis and Poverty
- Inter Press Service
BRIGHTON, UK, Mar 09 (IPS) - This year marks the halfway point— eight years in and eight years out— of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty and reduce inequalities.
A Caribbean Writer Fights Gender-Based Violence with Lit, Protests
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Mar 08 (IPS) - For the past six years, Jamaican writer and scholar Opal Palmer Adisa has been one of the voices crying out against the prevalence of gender-based violence in the Caribbean and elsewhere. To highlight this human rights issue, she launched “Thursdays in Black” - holding public protests throughout the year and, on Thursdays, making use of social media to spread her message and raise awareness.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - World Parliaments Could Take Another 80 Years to Achieve Gender Parity Among Legislators
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) - For the first time in history, says a new report from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), not a single functioning parliament in the world is “male-only”.
Is the increasing number of women in parliaments a singular achievement for gender empowerment? Or is it the result of mandatory legislative quotas for women’s representation in world’s parliaments?
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Women and Girls: Innovation and Higher Education
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Mar 08 (IPS) - In September 2020, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for women’s rights celebrated its 25th anniversary. It was, however, a bittersweet commemoration, mixing joy for the progress in gender equality achieved since 1995, and the stark realization about the multidimensional gaps awaiting tackling and the new divides brought by the social consequences of COVID-19.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Digital Inclusion is Vital for Strengthening Women’s Rights in Africa
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 08 (IPS) - The internet has a pivotal role to play in empowering women and girls across Africa, but preexisting forms of gender discrimination and marginalization are underpinning a widening digital gender divide.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - First Ever Women Council of Elders Making In-roads in North Eastern Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Mar 08 (IPS) - Low literacy levels, a high prevalence of outlawed Female Genital Mutilation, early marriages, forced marriages, low contraceptive usage, multiple births, as well as high maternal, infant and child deaths, define the life of a woman in Kenya’s vast North Eastern region.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - The Power of Technology — & the Increased Exclusion, Inequalities & Gender Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) - Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tremendous power of technology and innovation has become clear to the world. However, it has also increased exclusion, discrimination, and inequalities -- especially for women and girls.
International Women’s Day, 2023 - Empower Her
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 08 (IPS) - On International Women’s Day, let us remind ourselves of the power of education. We have all benefited from an education that less than a century ago was not a given for a girl and which still remains a distant utopia for millions of young girls.
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