Acknowledging and recognizing the hard work and struggles of many women who have walked with us to this point and paying tribute to those who have passed on, we, close to 700 women and girls representing women’s movements from the Asia and Pacific Region, reaffirm the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) as a strategic document for women and girls empowerment, human rights, peace, human security and gender-inclusive development and as a key tool for advancing government’s commitments to the Millennium Development Goals. (MDGs)
The Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms (RCRF) team is currently documenting a broad spectrum of feminist strategies to counter fundamentalist politics.
Advocates in eleven countries gather for milestone in history of sexual and reproductive rights movement. On November 9, 2009, a diverse group of nongovernmental organizations will stage bold actions in 11 countries to promote human rights. As part of the historic international campaign “One Day One Struggle” organized by the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR), over 20 organizations will hold simultaneous public demonstrations and events to assert that sexual and reproductive rights are universal human rights based on the inherent freedom, dignity and equality of all human beings.
This paper authored by Ann Phillips and José Casanova addresses the relationship between religion, politics and gender equality through four aspects: (i) what authority, if any, states can cede to religious communities or groups without beginning to threaten gender equality; (ii) the informal impact of religions on attitudes and lives, beyond any institutionalized power; (iii) the possibilities and limits of internal reform; and (iv) the possibilities and difficulties of alliances between religious and secular groups.
La Convention sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination à l’égard des femmes a été adoptée le 18 décembre 1979 par l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies. Elle est entrée en vigueur en tant que traits international le 3 septembre 1981 après avoir été ratifiée par 20 pays. Dix ans après son adoption, en 1989, c'est presque une centaine de pays qui se sont engagés à respecter ses clauses.
L'Assemblée générale proclame la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme comme l'idéal commun à atteindre par tous les peuples et toutes les nations afin que tous les individus et tous les organes de la société, ayant cette Déclaration constamment à l'esprit, s'efforcent, par l'enseignement et l'éducation, de développer le respect de ces droits et libertés et d'en assurer, par des mesures progressives d'ordre national et international, la reconnaissance et l'application universelles et effective
Réunis à Beijing en septembre 1995, année du cinquantième anniversaire de la fondation de l’Organisation des Nations Unies, les gouvernements participant à la quatrième Conférence mondiale sur les femmes, résolus à faire progresser les objectifs d’égalité, de développement et de paix pour toutes les femmes dans le monde entier, dans l’intérêt de l’humanité tout entière.
The world is waking up to the fact that the greatest force for global change is growing up before our very eyes. It’s a simple concept whose time has finally arrived. Study after study shows that girls—more than 600 million strong in the developing world—hold the key to their communities’ successful future when they’re schooled and mentored in leadership.
Three Iranian women human rights campaigners, including human rights lawyer and WLUML Council member, Shadi Sadr, received the Lech Walesa Prize, in Gdansk, Poland on Monday.
The world is waking up to the fact that the greatest force for global change is growing up before our very eyes. It’s a simple concept whose time has finally arrived. Study after study shows that girls—more than 600 million strong in the developing world—hold the key to their communities’ successful future when they’re schooled and mentored in leadership.