Gender

For Big Financial Institutions, Profit Trumps Women’s Rights

By Kanya D'Almeida
This year, for the first time, the World Bank dedicated its 2012 annual flagship World Development Report to women as indispensable players in the global economy and launched a media campaign to "think equal".

To Women’s Rights, Financial Institutions Pay Lip Service Only

By Kanya D'Almeida and - -
On day seven of "the 16 days of activism to end violence against women" campaign, women's rights organisations around the world are asking what the biggest international financial institutions (IFIs) are really doing to protect women's rights, which are under daily assault.

LATIN AMERICA: Female Condoms in Short Supply

By Marcela Valente and - -
In spite of the growing spread of HIV/AIDS among women in Latin America and the Caribbean, the female condom, which could put them in charge of their health, is not readily available.

Lessons from the Andes on Budgeting to Close the Gender Gap

By Milagros Salazar and - -
Three countries in South America's Andean region, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, have a great deal to teach and share with those meeting in Busan, South Korean this week to discuss, among other things, how to make sure that development aid incorporates a gender focus in order to be effective.

‘Nothing at Busan for African Women, Children’

By Miriam Gathigah and - -
Although there has been considerable progress towards reducing maternal and infant mortality, millions of women and children in Africa are still in need of better health services, food and sanitation.

Q&A: “Gender Budgets Help You Think About People”

By Estrella Gutiérrez and - -
Gender responsive budgeting (GRB), a U.N. Women tool to curb inequality, "helps you think about people...and to use resources in a more effective manner," says Lorena Barba.

Global Fund for Education Gathers Momentum

By Thalif Deen and - -
If the international community can successfully raise billions of dollars to fight deadly diseases, why not a similar fund to promote education, asks Gordon Brown, former British prime minister.

West African farmers see climate changing

By Sam Olukoya
Women in West Africa have over the years relied on fishing and farming as their traditional source of income. But as Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos, changing weather patterns caused by climate change have put their livelihood under threat.

South-South Ties Reshape Aid Paradigm

By Miriam Gathigah and - -
When the G-8 countries, comprising the world’s largest industrialised nations, decided that improving Internet access to developing countries should be a priority, scores of leaders from developing world opposed the move.

The Aid From Women No One Counts

By Miriam Gathigah
Gender responsive budgeting becomes important when seen in the background of unpaid but important care work done by women, say delegates to an international meet on aid effectiveness in this South Korean city.

Arab Women Seek a Place in the Spring

By Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau and - -
As several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) elect bodies to write new constitutions, women are looking to expand their rights through legislation.

Mobilising Men to End Violence Against Women

By Sandra Siagian and - -
Since it launched in 1997, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women has distributed more than 78 million dollars to 339 projects around the world, but even these resources fall far short, meeting less than five percent of demand.
Michelle Bachelet. Credit: Sriyantha Walpola/IPS

Q&A: Climate Talks Must Ensure That “Words Become Reality”

By Rousbeh Legatis
Involving women in decision-making and resource management is a basic necessity for any effective plan to address the multi- layered and life-threatening consequences of climate change, says the head of UN Women.

US: Battered Bodies, Broken Families: Remembering Immigrant Women

By Kanya D'Almeida and - -
Today marks the first of "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence", a campaign launched in 1991 to insist that 'women's rights are human rights'.

CUBA: Violence against Women Out of the Closet

By Patricia Grogg and - -
The story of Saúl, a violent husband, and Odalys, an abused wife, has been on Cuban TV screens for several weeks now, bringing the touchy and often silenced issue of violence against women into millions of homes. It may cause shock or repulsion, but few can escape the controversy or discussion.

PODCAST: Coffee growers feel climate change

By IPS Correspondents
Women coffee growers speak to Martha Nyambura about the impact of climate change on their production.

MEXICO: Deadly Cocktail of Sexual Violence and Impunity

By Emilio Godoy and - -
Sexual violence against women in Mexico is on the rise, alongside the escalation of violence between police and soldiers and the drug cartels, women's rights activists warn.

Coffee growers feel climate change

By IPS Correspondents
Women coffee growers speak to Martha Nyambura about the impact of climate change on their production.

ARGENTINA: Women Build New Opportunities in Cooperatives

By Marcela Valente and - -
Forged in the 2001-2002 social and economic crisis, cooperatives in Argentina are becoming a fast track to women's participation in what were traditionally regarded as male spheres.

LATIN AMERICA: How to Prevent ‘Femicide’

By Marcela Valente and - -
Vanina Alderete, an 18-year-old from Argentina, is a survivor of a particularly heinous case of domestic violence: when she was 11, her father killed her mother and her two little brothers and left her seriously injured.

Bangladesh Demands Climate Justice

By Naimul Haq
Mosammet Monwara walks more than three km every alternate day to fetch water for her family of five in a heavy earthen pitcher.
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