Inclusion of key stakeholders in text, democratic deliberation’ needed
A group of women’s rights organizations and non-governmental organizations is urging the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to postpone the adoption of the final draft version of its Political Declaration. The group is concerned that it “omits...
International Women’s Day (IWD) campaigns step up demands for the respect of women’s basic civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
This year’s IWD, March 8, 2020, calls us to raise awareness against bias and take action for equality in order to forge a gender-equal world.
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A project to establish “communication that brings us together” began with a mix of “great enthusiasm and uncertainty” over a year ago in Colombia, as the country grappled with the influx of an unprecedented number of Venezuelan migrants.
Today, that project, “Among Neighbours: Network of Colombian...
WACC Global’s quarterly journal, Media Development, has published its first issue of the year, which examines how women around the world are faring 25 years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and five years since the launch of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”
Pulitzer Prize winning American author Herman Wouk may have written that, but it certainly seems to be true of some of the major tech companies whose profits include those from dubious digital surveillance techniques.
Anna Turley
Twenty five years ago at the parallel NGO Forum of the 1995 4th World Conference on Women, 30,000 feminists and women’s rights activists from hundreds of countries placed on the global stage our shared vision for women’s rights and gender equality.
The collective action of...
