Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Explaining the Principle of Substantive Equality

IWRAW Asia Pacific presents CEDAW Quick & Concise video series to explain the  CEDAW principles. This video explains the principle of Substantive Equality. ...
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Monday, September 29, 2014

The story of an undocumented journey in the Sonora- Arizona desert.

My book by Ilka Oliva Corado It´s not easy to sit here, in front of this computer, and try to write about my book. I´ve been avoiding this moment because I expected it to be this way, and I wasn´t wrong. It´s a challenge because, again, I have to face my memory which is surely unconsciously keeping away memories of experiences that marked my life and which emerge when I least expect it. These memories...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Child Marriage - Global Problem

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Sustainable Human Rights Cities

Sustainable Human Rights Cities – Cities of Dignity - Cities of Freedom in The Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals – pdhre@igc.org PDHRE, People’s Movement of Human Rights Learning, an NGO In consultative status with the UN, has been for the last 25 years a champion of introducing at the community level, in many forms, an ongoing process of learning human rights, to be understood by...
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Friday, September 5, 2014

Abortion Stigma, Human Rights & the Post-2015 Development Agenda

In 1994 at the ICPD, governments from around the world recognized unsafe abortion as a major public health concern,[1] and affirmed that reproductive rights include the right to make decisions concerning reproduction free from discrimination, coercion and violence, which were reaffirmed again in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.Yet...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

CALL FOR MORE WOMEN REPRESENTATIVES AT THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

[Brussels, 28 August 2014] The composition of the new European Commission is going to be confirmed at the meeting of the EU Heads of States this weekend. Almost all Member States have however already proposed their candidates for Commisioner and at the moment only 4 women have been designated out of 28. This means that not even 15% of the Commission would be women, less than half as many as in the...
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