IPS wants to redress a huge imbalance that exists today: only 22% of the voices you hear and read in the news today are women's. Elections, health, education, armed conflicts, corruption, laws, trade, climate change, the global financial and food crises, and natural disasters. IPS covers these frontline issues asking an often forgotten question: what does it mean for women and girls?

In December 2009 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW, celebrates its 30th anniversary. In partnership with UNIFEM IPS is looking at where and how this international bill of rights has helped to realise equality between men and women.