Within the framework of the project “Gender and remittances: Strengthening the capacities of Colombian women migrants as development agents from a human rights perspective,” UN-INSTRAW provides technical assistance to Sisma Mujer, an organization that monitors the situation of women’s human rights in Colombia.

UN-INSTRAW congratulates Dr. Inés Alberdi, the new Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and former member of the UN-INSTRAW Executive Board from 1989 until 1998, wishing her success in her endeavours.

Fahmida Mirza, representative of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was elected Speaker of the National Assembly. She is the first woman to occupy this post in Pakistan’s history. With 249 of a possible 342 votes from lower house of the National Assembly, Miza is the sixteenth Parliamentary, taking over from Chaudhry Amir Hussain of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid. [Photo: EFE]