E. Women's rights and gender equity

• By girls, for girls - teenagers say 'no' to child marriage
  IPS/Naresh Newar (06 Mar 15)
• Call for mainstreaming gender equality in post-2015 agenda
  IPS/Marianela Jarroud (06 Mar 15)
• It's time to step it up for gender equality
  IPS/Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (05 Mar 15)
• Goals for gender equality are a 'to do list'
  IPS/Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (03 Mar 15)
• By girls, for girls - Nepal's teenagers say no to child marriage
  Naresh Newar (Mar 15)
• The precarious situation of women in touris
  Albertina Almeida & Anita Pleumarom (Mar 15)
• Debating foreign policy - where are the women?
  IPS/Jasmin Ramsey (11 Feb 15)
• Illiteracy wears a woman's face
  IPS/Edgardo Ayala (28 Jan 15)
• Brides for bachelors
  Brennan O’ Connor (Jan/Feb 15)
• Georgia: Confronts domestic violence
  EurasiaNet/Giorgi Lomsadze (17 Dec 14)
• Child sex crimes: Uruguay's ugly hidden face
  Diana Cariboni (Dec 14)
• Survivors of sexual violence face increased risks
  IPS/Lyndal Rowlands (27 Nov 14)
• More women managers, but they're still doing the chores
  IPS/Fabiana Frayssinet (10 Nov 14)
• Women challenged by rising extremism and militarism
  IPS/Thalif Deen (10 Nov 14)
• United Nations: Ending violence against women - a global responsibility
  IPS/Lakshmi Puri (06 Nov 14)
• Another women's treaty? Implement existing one, say NGOs
  IPS/Thalif Deen (04 Nov 14)
• Boosting incomes and empowering rural women
  IPS/Patricia Grogg (03 Oct 14)
• Where women don't work
  IPS/Ashfaq Yusufzai (29 Sept 14)
• Human rights and gender equality vague in post-2015 agenda
  IPS/Ida Karlsson (08 Sept 14)
• Raw deal for African women traders
  Nirit Ben-Ari (Aug 14)
• Activists, government push forward bill to prevent gender violence in Burma
  Nyein Nyein (Jul/Aug 14)
• Miles apart, sisters in pain
  Damilola Oyedele (Jul 14)
• First decolonisation, now 'depatriarchilisation'
  Lakshmi Puri (Jun 14)
• Aborted girls, trafficked women
  Nilanjana Ray (Jul 14)
• UN releases guidelines on reparations for victims of sexual violence
  IPS/Thalif Deen (17 Jun 14)
• United Nations: Empowering women, empowering humanity
  IPS/Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (22 May 14)
• Climate laws ignore women
  IPS/Emilio Godoy (13 May 14)
• On the street that's home
  Rachel Williamson (May 14)
• Rwanda: On 20th anniversary of genocide, women lead
  IPS/Fabiola Ortiz (09 Apr 14)
• Taking stock
  (Mar/Apr 14)
• Women still walk two steps behind in Arab world
  IPS/Thalif Deen (10 Mar 14)
• US aid and violence against women
  Just Associates (Mar 14)
• Growing inequality mars 20 years of women's progress
  IPS/Jonathan Rozen (19 Feb 14)
• Dalit women face multiplied discrimination
  Mallika Aryal (Jan/Feb 14)
• United States: Urged to change policy on support to victims of sexual violence
  IPS/Ramy Srour (16 Dec 13)
• Under fire over women's rights bill
  IPS/Al Jazeera (09 Dec 13)
• Bill commits diplomacy to ending abuse of women
  IPS/Carey L. Biron (09 Dec 13)
• Femicides hit civil war proportions
  Fibula Ortiz (Nov/Dec 13)
• Women don monks' robes
  IPS/Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau (05 Nov 13)
• How women's rights are linked to US-Iran negotiations
  IPS/Fariba Parsa (05 Nov 13)
• Women's empowerment builds peace and security
  IPS/Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (22 Oct 13)
• Men learning wisely to respect women
  IPS/Catherine Wilson (22 Oct 13)
• Trading women for profit
  Graham Peebles (Oct 13)
• Mideast and Africa still holdouts on women's rights
  IPS/Ramy Srour (27 Sept 13)
• Focus on women's rights at Montevideo conference
  IPS/Thalif Deen (13 Aug 13)
• New law guarantees protocol for rape victims
  IPS/Fabiana Frayssinet (06 Aug 13)
• 'Femicide' courts hold out new hope for justice
  IPS/Danilo Valladares (06 Aug 13)
• United Nations: Deploys women protection advisers to curb sexual violence
  IPS/Thalif Deen (18 Jul 13)
• Guatemala: 'Femicide' courts hold out new hope for justice
  Danilo Valladares (Jul 13)
• Sri Lanka: War or peace, women struggle to survive
  IPS/Amantha Perera (12 Jul 13)
• Moving forward to end violence against women
  IPS/Lakshmi Puri (05 Jul 13)
• Gender equality, women's rights and empowerment
  IPS/Lakshmi Puri (27 May 13)
• Serbia: Austerity leaves domestic violence victims stranded
  IPS/Claudia Ciobanu (02 May 13)
• UN meet on women wrangles consensus to address violence
  George Gao (Mar/Apr 13)
• 24 nails dug into body, luckily
  Amantha Perera (Mar/Apr 13)
• Latin American women and their fight against fear
  Benjamin Serra (Mar/Apr 13)
• Femicide in Mexico: The Cotton Field case and its sequels
  Olivia Kirkpatrick (Mar/Apr 13)
• Focus on rape in India ignores gender violence as a global tragedy
  Poulami Roychowdhury (Mar/Apr 13)
• Sexual violence not just a weapon of war in DRC
  Richard Lee (Mar/Apr 13)
• The scourge of gender-based violence in South Africa
  Azwifaneli Managa & Bertha Chiroro (Mar/Apr 13)
• Reflections on the Chinese women's movement in the new era
  Cai Yiping (Mar/Apr 13)
• Another China, other inequalities
  Mai Corlin (Mar/Apr 13)
• Left-behind women seek more support
  (Mar/Apr 13)
• Notes on violence against women in the neoliberal age
  V Geetha (Mar/Apr 13)
• Naming femicide to fight violence against women
  IPS/Angela Melendez (27 Mar 13)
• United Nations: Declares zero tolerance for violence against women
  IPS/Marzieh Goudarzi (08 Mar 13)
• Stronger protections for women against abuse
  IPS/Carey L. Biron (04 Mar 13)
• Rights expert highlights threats to women's right to food
  Kanaga Raja (13 Feb 13)
• Armenia: Domestic violence taking high toll
  IPS-EurasiaNet/Gayane Abrahamyan (07 Feb 13)
• Senegal growing up over marriage
  Issa Sikiti da Silva (Jan/Feb 13)
• Ending ban on women, military hopes to reduce sexual assaults
  IPS/Carey L. Biron (28 Jan 13)
• Palestine: Law makes it honourable to kill
  IPS/Mel Frykberg (24 Jan 13)
• Challenges of women's empowerment and equality
  IPS/Julia Kallas (14 Dec 12)
• Longer lives, lower incomes for women
  IPS/Suvendrini Kakuchi (12 Dec 12)
• Endangering women human rights defenders
  Christine Ahn & Erika Guevara-Rosas (Dec 12)
• South Africa: Increase in gender-based violence
  Gender Links (Dec 12)
• The persistent battle against rampant sexual harassment in Egypt
  Alessandra Bajec (Oct/Nov 12)
• Adultery laws unfairly target women
  IPS/Thalif Deen (29 Oct 12)
• Peru: Rural women cope "where life is very sad"
  IPS/Mariela Jara (16 Oct 12)
• Women are the new "emerging market"
  IPS/Zofeen Ebrahim (16 Oct 12)
• Pacific nations women promised a better deal
  IPS/Catherine Wilson (05 Sept 12)
• Women spend 40 billion hours collecting water
  IPS/Thalif Deen (05 Sept 12)
• Girls determined to fight guns with books
  Ashfaq Yusufzai (Aug/Sept 12)
• Mexico: Women secure a third of parliament
  IPS (18 Jul 12)
• Parliamentarians seek to deliver sexual rights
  IPS/Jacques N. Couvas (04 Jun 12)
• The battle over women's rights in Tunisia
  Mischa Benoit-Lavelle (Jun 12)
• South Africa's 'Traditional Courts Bill' impairs rights of 12 million rural women
  Sabine Clappaert (May 12)
• 'War on drugs' leaves Latin American women's lives in ruins
  Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente (Apr 12)
• Women of the world unite for rights
  IPS/Jennifer Hattam (25 Apr 12)
• Only four-fifths of men's pay for women
  IPS/Charundi Panagoda (23 Apr 12)
• Cuts maternal deaths with affordability
  IPS/Naimul Haq (23 Apr 12)
• Europe: Urges more development aid for women
  IPS/A. D. McKenzie (11 Apr 12)
• African women’s long walk to freedom
  L. Muthoni Wanyeki (Apr 12)
• Remembering Domitila: Making Bolivian history
  Emily Achtenberg (Mar 12)
• Reinforce strategies to uphold women's right to housing
  Kanaga Raja (08 Mar 12)
• United Nations: Holds governments to account on women's equality
  IPS/Mathilde Bagneres (06 Mar 12)
• Women still trapped below glass ceiling of party politics
  IPS/Thalif Deen (05 Mar 12)
• Rural women face myriad hurdles
  IPS/Estrella Gutierrez (28 Feb 12)
• Argentina: Trial sheds light on trafficking of women
  IPS/Marcela Valente (20 Feb 12)
• Heeds the cries of femicide victims
  IPS/Danilo Valladares (06 Feb 12)
• A quiet resistance
  Sokari Ekine (Jan/Feb 12)
• Armed societies, another tragedy for women
  IPS/Humberto Marquez (13 Dec 11)
• For many women, a prison sentence also means abuse
  IPS/Amanda Wilson (08 Dec 11)
• Giving up guns for motherhood
  Sudeshna Sarkar (Nov/Dec 11)
• Women reject normalisation of gender violence
  Melanie Haider (Oct 11)
• IFIs pay lip service only to women's rights
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (02 Dec 11)
• Battered bodies, broken families - remembering immigrant women
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (29 Nov 11)
• Mobilising men to end violence against women
  IPS/Sandra Siagian (29 Nov 11)
• How to prevent "femicide"
  IPS/Marcela Valente (28 Nov 11)
• Women build new opportunities in cooperatives
  IPS/Marcela Valente (25 Nov 11)
• Deadly cocktail of sexual violence and impunity
  IPS/Emilio Godoy (25 Nov 11)
• Mexican women demand climate justice
  IPS/Emilio Godoy (16 Nov 11)
• Women losing ground in economic, political equality
  IPS/Sandra Siagian (04 Nov 11)
• Women hung out to dry in global labour market
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (22 Sept 11)
• 'Until the day I die': A Haitian peasant woman leader speaks
  Gerta Louisama (Sept 11)
• Laws "not enough" to tackle violence against native women
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (27 Jul 11)
• Sisters in the struggle for justice
  IPS/Portia Crowe (11 Jul 11)
• Progress for women's rights more impressive on paper
  IPS/Danilo Valladares (08 Jul 11)
• So much more than just "trafficked women"
  IPS/Portia Crowe (06 Jul 11)
• Women panchayat leaders: Breaking stereotypes, bringing hope
  Bharat Dogra & Reena Mehta (Jun 11)
• Push for girls' education ahead of G8
  IPS/A. D. McKenzie (27 May 11)
• Women's issues missing from election manifestos
  Zukiswa Zimela (May 11)
• Stateless refugee mothers fall through the cracks in Bangladesh
  Misha Hussain (May 11)
• Algerian women test the 'Arab spring' winds
  Brahim Takheroubte (Apr 11)
• Shining a light on women's rights
  IPS/Andrea Lunt (07 Mar 11)
• Native women seek justice
  IPS/Haider Rizvi (04 Mar 11)
• Educate the girl, empower the woman
  IPS/Andrea Lunt (02 Mar 11)
• UN Women celebrates launch
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (28 Feb 11)
• Grassroots women agree biggest problem is gender violence
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (25 Feb 11)
• Peru: Rural girls face barriers to education
  IPS/Milagros Salazar (17 Feb 11)
• Surviving the sexist genocide
  IPS/Danilo Valladares (10 Feb 11)
• Nicaragua: Gender revolution in schools not reflected at work
  IPS/Jose Adan Silva (07 Feb 11)
• Argentina: Set on fire - new form of sexist violence
  IPS/Marcela Valente (21 Jan 11)
• Brazil: New President's first steps fuel optimism of women's movement
  IPS/Mario Osava (14 Jan 11)
• Violence against women linked to HIV risk
  IPS/Marcela Valente (26 Nov 10)
• Argentina: Click here to escape gender violence
  IPS/Marcela Valente (25 Nov 10)
• Nicaragua: Obstacle course to women's equality
  IPS/Jose Adan Silva (10 Nov 10)
• Women declare war on gender violence
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (09 Nov 10)
• Sexual violence is not "collateral damage"
  IPS/Matthew O. Berger (08 Nov 10)
• Afghan women demand liberation, not lip service
  IPS/Kanya D'Almeida (01 Nov 10)
• Reflections on Colombia's treatment of female prisoners
  Liliany Obando (Oct/Nov 10)
• War is hell, especially for women
  IPS/Thalif Deen (22 Oct 10)
• Latin America: Women peacekeepers have a vital role to play
  IPS/Daniela Estrada (22 Oct 10)
• Haitian women at increased risk of trafficking
  IPS/Emilio Godoy (29 Sept 10)
• Chile: Bachelet's appointment to head UN Women widely applauded
  IPS/Daniela Estrada (16 Sept 10)
• Women, children top anti-poverty agenda
  IPS/Matthew O. Berger (15 Sept 10)
• Japan: House-husbands giving birth to more gender equality
  IPS/Suvendrini Kakuchi (01 Sept 10)
• Argentina: The gender roots of labour inequality
  IPS/Sebastian Lacunza (09 Aug 10)
• Ethiopia: Empowering women to fight FGM/C
  IRIN (Aug 10)
• African women’s long walk to equality
  L. Muthoni Wanyeki (Aug 10)
• To fight AIDS, fight gender inequality
  IPS/Marcela Valente (20 Jul 10)
• Indian Ocean Islands: Women join forces for political equality
  IPS/Nasseem Ackburally (16 Jul 10)
• Uruguay: Women join forces in the Parliamentary trenches
  IPS/Silvana Silveira (07 Jul 10)
• United Nations: Gender meet ends on high note with new "UN Women"
  IPS/Hannah Rubenstein (06 Jul 10)
• South Korea: Despite gains, women still struggle for equality
  IPS/Suvendrini Kakuchi (01 Jul 10)
• African women's long walk to equality
  L Muthoni Wanyeki (Jun/July 10)
• United Nations: Wrangling continues over new women's entity
  IPS/Beatrice Paez (29 Jun 10)
• Chile: Gender equity progress blocked by hard-core "machismo"
  IPS/Daniela Estrada (18 May 10)
• Imprisoning Palestinian women
  Stephen Lendman (Apr 10)
• Arab women caught between extremes
  IPS/Thalif Deen (08 Mar 10)
• United States: Detained migrant women shackled during childbirth
  IPS/Valeria Fernandez (08 Mar 10)
• Egypt: Battle for women judges half won
  Ursula Lindsey (Mar 10)
• To focus on global epidemic of gender abuse
  IPS/Thalif Deen (22 Feb 10)
• Women eke out a living in informal economy
  IPS/Danilo Valladares (18 Feb 10)
• North African women at forefront of legal reform
  Fatima Sadiqi (11 Feb 10)
• Women's treaty weakened by slew of reservations
  IPS/Thalif Deen (11 Dec 09)
• Women's treaty a powerful force for equality
  IPS/Liza Jansen (08 Dec 09)
• Recruits men to help end violence against women
  IPS/Liza Jansen (30 Nov 09)
• United Nations: Approves long-awaited new women's agency
  IPS/Thalif Deen (14 Sept 09)
• GA Adopts Resolution to Establish a New Women's Entity
  (14 Sept 09)
• Chile: Activists press candidates to take a stance on women's rights
  Daniela Estrada (Aug/Sept 09)
• Seasonal widows
  Mario Osava (Jun 09)
• Silenced by euphemism
  Eileen Pittaway (Jun 09)
• The gender agenda in Venezuela
  Nandi Mgijima (May 09)
• Women's equality in theory, but not in practice
  IRIN (May 09)
• The rights of women as casualties of war
  Ramzy Baroud (Nov/Dec 08)
• Destroying the social order
  Rita Schafer (Aug 08)
• Breaking the code
  Tobias Jackson (Jun 08)
• The real victims
  T K Rajalakshmi (Jun 08)
• Guatemala approves law against femicide
  Central America Report (May 08)
• Women, commitments and inaction
  Roberto Bissio (Mar 08)
• African women and domestic violence
  Takyiwaa Manuh (Nov/Dec 07)
• Small family norm aggravates female foeticide
  Kalyan Singh Kothari (Oct 07)
• The plight of Iraqi women: The epitome of American arrogance
  Lucinda Marshall (Oct 07)
• Women demand a fairer share of political power
  Central America Report (Sept 07)
• Women's intervention efforts in Gulu, Northern Uganda
  Women's World (Sept 07)
• Indigenous, black women face 'triple glass ceiling'
  Kintto Lucas (Jul/Aug 07)
• Latin America: Political parity for women still a long way off
  Kintto Lucas (Jul/Aug 07)
• Women group wins legal battle against Japan NHK
  Tomoko Kashiwazaki (Jun 07)
• Swaziland: Empowering women to beat abuse
  IRIN news service (Jun 07)
• Women victims of 1965 speak out
  Carmel Budiardjo (May 07)
• Unheard voices: Dalit women
  Tamil Nadu Women's Forum (Apr 07)
• Femicide reaches epidemic proportions
  Central American Report (Jan 07)
• Many to blame for war crimes against Congo's women
  Judy Amunga Ndibo (Jan 07)
• Juarez femicides just a drop in the ocean of blood
  Diego Cevallos (Dec 06)
• 'Rent-a-womb': The latest Indian export
  Jayati Ghosh (Oct/Nov 06)
• Domestic violence: Justice for women?
  Ratna Mataramunti (Jul 06)
• Justice for women in conflict – A view from amnesty international
  Irene Khan (May 06)
• South African trial brings rape into public view
  Carolyn Dempster (Apr 06)
• Hasta siempre Gladys
  Rosemary Barbera (Oct/Nov 05)
• Hope in a violent land
  Brad Miller (Jun 05)
• Impunity: A prelude to violence against women
  Laura Becerra Pozos (Mar 05)
• Latin American women: At least half a century needed to reach gender-equality goals
  Maria Cecilia Espinosa (Mar 05)
• The sex-for-sale trap
  Yeni (Jan/Feb 05)
• Foe of 'radical feminism' to train Iraqi women
  Jim Lobe (Nov/Dec 04)
• The politics of women's suffrage in Kuwait
  Mary Ann Tétreault (Sept/Oct 04)
• Rwanda leads the world in parliamentary gender parity
  Helen Vesperini (Aug 04)
• 11300 women murdered in just over three years
  Diego Cevallos (Jul/Aug 04)
• Job equality still elusive for women, says ILO
  Kanaga Raja (Mar/Apr 04)
• Women in Indonesia's trade unions
  Sarah Gardner (Jan/Feb 04)
• U.S. accused of paying lip service to women’s rights
  Ushani Agalawatta (Nov 03)
• Trafficking of women and children in South-East Asia
  Mikel Flamm (Sept 03)
• Families of murdered Mexican women organise for justice
  Michael Seifert (Aug 03)
• Millennium progress for the world’s women?
  Global Future (Jun 03)
• Women representatives blaze a new trail in India's villages
  Bharat Dogra (May/Jun 03)
• Half a million girls work as domestic ‘slaves’ in Brazil
  Mario Osava (May 03)
• The ongoing war on women in Iraq
  Nadje Al-Ali (Jan/Feb 03)
• Pakistan’s fiery shame: Women die in stove deaths
  Juliette Terzieff (Jan 03)
• Ludu Daw Amar: Speaking truth to power
  Min Zin (Nov/Dec 2002)
• Chinese women face discrimination in the job market
  Yu Huaiqing (Sept/Oct 2002)
• 'We're not from Mars,' Nicaraguan men against violence assert
  Gareth Richards (Nov-Dec 2001)
• A profile of courage
  S Viswanathan (Sept-Oct 2001)
• Latin America: Women immigrants, the target of xenophobia
  M.Valente (23 Jul 2001)
• Japan: Steps in gender equality come too slowly for women
  S.Kakuchi (04 Jul 2001)
• EU action plan brings gender to the fore
  G.Hopkins (24 Jun 2001)
• Asia: Women far from critical mass to change political scene
  J.Son (19 Jun 2001)
• Latin America: Scant progress in status of women, says UNIFEM
  G.Gonzalez (10 Apr 2001)
• Women demand political will in disarmament negotiations
  G.Capdevila (08 Mar 2001)
• Europe pledges harsher penalties for 'sex slave' traffickers
  B.Kennety (08 Mar 2001)
• Poor protection for victims of sex trade
  L.Delong (Nov 2000)
• The truth behind Sri Lanka's gender development statistics
  N.de Soysa (Sept 2000)
• The Indigenous Women's International Forum and reflections on Beijing Plus Five
  Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Aug/Sept 2000)
• The long march towards gender equity in SADC
  Diana Mavunduse (Jun/Jul 2000)
• Only 8 states close gender gap, says UNIFEM
  T.Deen (05 Jun 2000)
• Zambian women demand gender policy
  Wilcliff Sakala (May 2000)
• The woman's place
  Parvathi Menon (Apr 2000)
• US: Falls short of UN goals on gender parity
  T.Deen (30 Mar 2000)
• Modern slavery -forcing millions of women into the sex trade
  Marwaan Macan-Markar (Feb/Mar 2000)
• Girl power
  Naunidhi Kaur (Dec 1999/Jan 2000)
• Towards a SAARC Convention against trafficking in women and children
  Farida Akhter (Oct/Nov 1999)
• Modern slavery - forcing millions of women into sex trade
  Marwaan Macan-Markar (Sept 1999)
• Sita and her daughters: Women workers at an Indian export-processing zone
  T K Rajalakshmi/PANOS (Jul 1999)
• Seeking a fair deal to working women for maternity
  Someshwar Singh/SUNS (18 Jun 1999)
• Who will wipe away the tears of Indian rape victims?
  Svati Chakravarty-Bhatkal (Jun 1999)
• Pushing the Women's Agenda Forward
  Padmaja Padman (16 May 1999)
• Women in US prisons face widespread abuse
  Amnesty International (Apr/May 1999)
• Pushing the Women's Agenda Forward - Strategies to tackle concerns
  Padmaja Padman (16 May 1999)
• Twilight zone for women red-light workers along Indian highways
  M.Menon (Mar 1999)
• Redefining the role of women in Indonesia
  Abdul Razak Ahmad (Mar 1999)
• Surgical strike: Peru's sterilisation campaign and the US' hidden agenda
  Elizabeth Liagin (Nov 1998)
• The women workers of Dhaka
  Jeremy Seabrook (Oct 1998)
• Mixed findings on progress for women
  Murtaza Mandli-Yadav (Sept 1998)
• Women's resistance in Chiapas
  Robin Flinchum (Jul 1998)
• The women's movement in India: Action and reflection
  Urvashi Butalia (Jun 1998)
• The contending discourses on women in Iran
  Farideh Farhi (Jun 1998)
• Women and rural finance
  Jayati Ghosh (Jun 1998)
• Manzini fronts women's fight
  Muharyani Othman (May 1998)
• Women in India's trafficking belt
  Meena Menon (Feb/Mar 1998)
• Ghezali's dangerous beat
  Julie Wheelwright (Jan 1998)
• Who is Ramona?
  Terry Wolfwood (Aug 1997)
• Sexual exploitation in Cambodia
  Dr Wendy Freed (May/Jun 1997)
• Gender violence in Guatemala
  Victoria Rich (Oct 1996)
• The plight of Sri Lankan women
  Kalinga Seneviratne (Jan/Feb 1996)