Participation

Kamindanawan, a celebratory gathering of Mindanao women leaders, is set to honor tomorrow some 11 Mindanawon women and one man who have “broken silences, barriers and new ground for women.”

The Mindanao Commission on Women (MCW) will give honor and recognition to the Mindanawon achievers in time for MCW's 10th anniversary on December 8 when the Kamindanawan event will take place.

Earlier this week, through the promotion its Gender Unit, the Minustah held at the Hotel Montana, workshops with eleven women leaders from nine departments. On this occasion, Mr. Mariano Fernandez, the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Haiti, and Mr.

Back in March, when I visited Tunisia and Egypt, I met some remarkable women, who told me that for the first time, they really felt Tunisian or Egyptian, and that they were so proud of what women and men had achieved together. It was a phenomenal time to be in Cairo and Tunis.

On December 5, the international community will gather with Afghan leaders in Bonn, Germany's picturesque Cold War-era capital, for the latest stock-taking of Afghanistan. While some are tempering expectations for the second major conference in Bonn in ten years, Afghan women leaders see an opportunity -- and they're doing everything they can to seize it.

Leaders attending the Bonn Conference on the future of Afghanistan must make an explicit declaration that women's rights will not be negotiated away in any peace deal with insurgent groups, ActionAid said today.

To say they're excited about the downfall of the Gaddafi regime would be an understatement.From the moment Newsbeat meets them they talk about the revolution with big smiles on their faces. Even sitting at this coffee shop isn't something they could have done before.

Noor Toshani, 16, describes the situation before things changed: "We would probably do it, but we would be upstairs in the women and family area.

On Egypt's first day of elections, women's participation was visibly large in the country's first post-revolution elections to choose “the revolution parliament.” The high female turn-out comes despite the low numbers of women who are running for the Parliament.

If and when Sri Lanka's Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) releases its report later this month, as scheduled, it will do so amid wide scepticism on many critical fronts – except, it seems, for one. The credibility, independence and the ethnic balance of the post-war commission have been well-challenged internationally, since it was established by the President last year to ostensibly help reconcile the nation.

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UN Women born: can it meet the policy gap challenge?

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.