|
|
Press Releases
|
Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
|
The search for sanctions to penalize non-compliance with quota laws, the promotion of a greater participation of indigenous peoples, afro-descendants and young persons, and the impulse given to Women’s Ministries and to gender-sensitive budgets were the most important lines of action identified by the participants in the Virtual Forum of Gender Specialists.
|
|
|
Tuesday, 21 April 2009 |
|
Multilateral institutions and members of academia will hold a meeting on migration with a special focus on women’s migration from the Caribbean. The event is entitled “Women and Migration: a view from the Caribbean,” and will be held on 22 April in Santo Domingo.
|
|
|
Monday, 20 April 2009 |
|
The new UN-INSTRAW virtual community aims to bring together academic experts, practitioners and other stakeholders from all over the world to discuss the issues of migration, remittances and development from a gender perspective, share information and learn from each other. The Gender and Migration Virtual Community was launched on 20 April 2009.
|
|
|
Friday, 06 March 2009 |
|
For the first time in a post-conflict country, national governmental institutions, the United Nations, and civil society organizations have worked together to build an inclusive policy document for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. On International Women’s Day 2009, the Government of the Republic of Liberia, headed by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, launches its national action plan on women, peace and security.
|
|
|
Thursday, 12 February 2009 |
|
The project "Strengthening Governance with a Gender Perspective
and the Political Participation of Women at the Local Level in Latin
America", has contributed to greater debate around the issue of women’s political participation at the local level in the political, academic and media fields. This was one of the conclusions at the conference with representatives from 13 Latin American countries in Santo Domingo on 13 February.
|
|
|
Wednesday, 04 February 2009 |
|
In an effort to better understand current trends in women’s migration and their impact on policy, UN-INSTRAW released the results of two Virtual Dialogues held in September and November 2008. The two Dialogues brought together experts from around the globe to examine migration and development from a gender perspective.
|
| |
|
|
Wednesday, 21 January 2009 |
|
“Often the gender training audience consists of staff in lower management positions and it is crucial that more senior management attend trainings to ensure gender sensitivity within institutions.” This is one of the main results of the Virtual Dialogue on the Current Situation in Gender Training, hosted by UN-INSTRAW in October 2008.
|
|
|
Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
|
UN-INSTRAW launched the results of “Filling the Gaps: A Virtual Discussion of Gender, Peace and Security Research” which took place in October 2008. The discussion was an opportunity for over 90 academics and researchers from universities, NGOs, research institutes and international organizations around the world to fortify existing networks and build a platform for more participatory and dynamic research.
|
|
|
Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
|
UN-INSTRAW and the Center for Arab Women Training and Research (CAWTAR) organized a National- Round Table on the Political Participation of Women in the Maghreb, on Wednesday, 26 November 2008, at CAWTAR headquarters in Tunisia.
|
|
|
Monday, 19 January 2009 |
|
Municipal women from 15 countries in Latin America met on 7 November 2008 in Quito (Ecuador) to formally establish the “Latin American Network of Associations of Elected Women Leaders in Local Governments”. Among the countries signing the agreement were Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
|
|
|
Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
|
UN-INSTRAW and ACSUR-Madrid opened the international meeting “Migrant women, women caregivers: new sexual division of labour,” which will take place at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), from 1 to 3 December 2008.
|
|
| | << Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >>
| | Results 1 - 16 of 45 |
|
