The College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies at NUI Galway is pleased to offer a CONNECT Doctoral Research Scholarship in Global Women's Studies commencing in the autumn of 2010, renewable for up to three years.
Every day, women and girls around the world are raped, beaten, and even killed, simply because of their gender. We can help stop this—change begins with us.
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) is pleased to announce the launching of a three-week virtual dialogue “Reintegrating Female Ex-Combatants: Good practices and lessons learned in the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of women and girl” to strengthen the analysis and replication of good practices and to foster the dynamic exchange of experiences and inf
Statement by Dr. Nurgul Djanaeva, Forum of women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, at the Informal Interactive Hearings of the General Assembly with Nongovernmental organizations, Civil society organizations and the Private sector at the United Nations Headquarters.
In the aftermath of the deadly violence that rocked Kyrgyzstan earlier this month, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has issued a call for US$670,000 to provide urgently needed services. Specifically, UNIFEM seeks to provide psychological and rehabilitation to women survivors of sexual violence affected by the conflict.
Donald Steinberg, Deputy President for Policy of International Crisis Group, is a board member of the Women's Refugee Commission and served on the UNIFEM executive director's advisory council. The opinions expressed are his own. -
Hanin Zoabi was aboard the Mavi Marmara, the lead ship in the flotilla where all nine activists were killed, and she witnessed some of them bleed to death. When she returned to Israel to speak in the Knesset, she was verbally assaulted by parliament members for her participation in the flotilla.
