Bachelet Appointment To U.N. Women Lends 'Star Power' To Gender Equality Agenda
The appointment of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to head U.N. Women is an "excellent choice" that "adds stature and star power to the agenda for gender equality," according to a Los Angeles Times editorial.
Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority continued this week with little progress made. Essentially, the talks are between two men, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, who are ideologically aligned in very different directions.
In an attempt to protect the vulnerable women in Kirkuk a number of organizations announced in a press conference on Saturday a camping for defending women rights in the province.
Many women have so far been killed under various social pretexts, the most notable one incentive for the murders is "honor".
Palestinian women hold photos of relatives being held in Israeli jails during a protest in front of the Red Cross office in the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Ramallah, on September 19, 2010.
Hawa went into labour on the evening of March 18, 2008 in a rural village in Koinadugu District in northern Sierra Leone. She went to the local health clinic to give birth, but there were serious complications. The local health worker advised her to go to Kabala Hospital, a little more than 10 miles away, where more advanced care was available.
The following summary incorporates the perspectives and recommendations of Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director at UNIFEM and Ambassador Donald Steinberg, Principal Deputy Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State.
If anyone still doubted, or hadn't noticed, that misogyny is the fundamental pillar on which radical Islam is based, the news that poison gas was pumped into girls' schools in Afghanistan, likely by the Taliban, ought to confirm it.
Next week a small group of Utah women will travel to Iraq to take supplies to the women and children of the war torn country. And the women going to Iraq have one thing in common - they have lost sons in the war there.
ABC 4's Don Hudson recently caught up with one of the mom's at a humanitarian workshop. That's where Colleen Parkin not only helped pack supplies, but also tried her hand at a few of the projects.
