Gender equality

International Women’s Day (IWD) each year is an opportunity for global women to raise their voices, raise awareness of injustice, and to note the achievements that have passed and those that are yet to come. Yet some that have raised their voices on IWD 2007 have ceremoniously announced that Northern feminism is dead, and that IWD has been ’hijacked’ by spice workshops, yoga and capitalism. Author: Rochelle Jones, AWID (continue)

A review of the report by the United Nations Special Representative for Human Rights Defenders submitted to the UN Human Rights Council. Author: Kathambi Kinoti, AWID (continue)

How do countries measure up in comparison to one another when it comes to addressing the gap between men and women in terms of economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. With data from 115 countries, and using a new methodology based on relative measures of empowerment to capture the size of the gap, the Gender Gap report provides a comprehensive guide to he current global situation. (continue)