European Women’s Lobby launch gender equality campaign
Category: Gender in the world
2009-02-03
The Campaign seeks to ensure the equal representation of women and men in the European Parliament to be elected in June 2009 and the upcoming European Commission |
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Thailand to recruit first women police officers
Category: Gender in the world
2009-01-28
Thailand's Royal Police Academy is admitting female cadets for the first time in its 107 year history, but it will be four years before they graduate and start work |
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UNICEF seeks $1 billion for children in protracted emergencies
Category: Gender in the world
2009-01-28
The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is looking to raise one billion dollars to assist children and women facing hunger, disease and poverty |
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Charity Helping Women of Moldova
Category: Trafficking
2009-01-23
A Peterhead-based charity has built two centres in Moldova to stop teenage orphan girls being trafficked into the sex trade |
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Women essential to success of regional polls in Iraq, insists UN envoy
Category: Gender in the world
2009-01-23
In the run-up to provincial polling across Iraq at the end of the month, the top United Nations official to the war-torn country today stressed that the full participation of women is imperative for the success of the elections |
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Progress on gender equality will mean improvements for all in society
Category: Gender in the world
2009-01-22
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon encouraged top government officials from around the world gathered in Guatemala City to push for greater progress on gender equality, stressing that women’s empowerment is key to realizing other major international development targets |
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Pregnancy 300 times deadlier in world’s poorest nations, says UNICEF
Category: Gender in the world
2009-01-16
Having a child remains one of the biggest health risks for women worldwide, and this is especially true for women in least developed countries who are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in developed countries |
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Exhibition of Children’s Works
Category: Announcements
2009-01-15
,, We Build Peace”
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