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Published on Tue, 2011-08-09 07:26
Source: The Jordan Times The inequity between husbands and wives regarding the custody of children and the absence of a clear penalization of violence against women are some of the concerns that Jordan civil society organizations will submit to the CEDAW committee next year, before the government presents its official assessment to the panel, reported The Jordan Times this week. |
Published on Mon, 2011-08-08 07:12
Sources: Hammarrberg's blog, Midlands Zone. The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, has urged European countries to show more political desire to combat homophobia and transphobia. He also urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to remove "gender dysphoria" from the World Health Organization's list of mental disorders, as a way to reduce prejudices and stigmatization. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-08-05 10:21
Source: The Broker The European Union (EU) needs the ACP's backing to get support in international governance, and needs its raw materials and markets. But the EU is indecisive about continuing this special relationship, according to Mirjam van Reisen, Europe external policy expert. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-08-05 07:43
Source: Helsingin Sanomat Concerns about climate change and about the future of the planet were given the most weight by the readers of Helsingin Sanomat (HS), a Finnish newspaper, when they voted on what they considered to be the most unethical product in the world. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-08-05 07:39
Source: SIAWI (Secularism is a Women’s Issue) A coalition of NGOs protested against threats against women’s rights in Egypt, made under the pretext that alleged “human rights” were in fact a throwback from Suzan Mubarak, deposed president Hosni Mubarak’s wife, and that the country should get rid of everything related to the toppled regime. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-08-05 07:35
Source: The Star of Malaysia The World Trade Organisation (WTO) could not even agree last week on a small “package” of issues to benefit the poorest countries. This crisis in the WTO is a sign of a larger impasse in international economic cooperation, according to the lastest column written by Martin Khor, Executive Director of South Centre, for The Star, one of the leading newspapers in Malaysia. |
Published on Fri, 2011-08-05 07:25
Sources: Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, The New York Times “One stubborn fact was hard to ignore” at the International AIDS Society's annual meeting in Rome last month: the syndrome “remains a metaphor for inequality,” wrote Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. His words are backed up by new studies on HIV that reveal the persistent gaps between poor and rich countries and between wealthier and marginalized communities in the United States. |
Published on Thu, 2011-08-04 08:48
Sources: O Estado de Sao Paulo; Abong. In Brazil infant mortality rates are a very clear indicator of the inequity between different ethnic and racial population sectors. According to the 2009-2010 Annual Report on Racial Inequality in Brazil from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), infant mortality among whites is 37.3 per thousand live births but among people of African descent the figure is 62.3. |
Published on Wed, 2011-08-03 07:28
Sources : Xtra!, Care2.com, Rabble.ca. Globalization has contributed to the destabilization and marginalization of women, but has also meant enhanced communications and organization and atransnational connectivity that must be united asorganizations and networks struggle to sustain themselves and maintain resilience in the face of forces that oppose equality. That became clear at Women's World, the conference in Ottawa that marked the 30th anniversary of the Women's World Congress and that brought together nearly 2,000 international activists, academics and policy makers from 92 countries over five days last month. |
Published on Tue, 2011-08-02 07:27
Sources: UN News Centre, IPS report, UNDP. The empowering of young people is becoming a key issue in the speeches of many UN high officers as the International Year of Youth is coming to an end this month. All of them agree that there is much to be done to include young men and women in the development and democratisation processes. |
