UN officials at the International AIDS conference in Mexico this week said that the current world food crisis and increasing food costs will have a negative impact on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as poor women are driven to engage in transactional sex.
The Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters (ACWS) will host the “First World Conference of Women’s Shelters: Discovering the Common Core – Practical Frameworks for Change” on 8-11 September 2008 at the Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The MDG3action.org website has been created by the Danish Government with the objective of promoting its campaign entitled MDG3 Global Call to Action. The campaign focuses on the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3), and aims at securing commitment from governments to making gender equality and women’s empowerment a key issue.
Ms Eva-Britt Svensson, from the GUE/NGL-Group (Gauche Unitaire Européenne/Nordic Green Left), Vice Chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) and Member of the European Parliament (MEP), in co-operation with Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), invites you to a conference on "Violence Against Women with Disabilities," to be held on 28 August 2008 in the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium.
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Tibotec (Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Limited) invite you to the pre-conference session entitled Women in HIV Trials: Building Bridges in Clinical and Social Science Research, to be held on 2 August 2008, at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
