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Access and participation of women and girls in education, training and science and technology, including for the promotion - Draft agreed conclusions

UN Comission on the Status of Women
UN Comission on the Status of Women on 15 March, 2011 - 20:32
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The outcome of the Commission’s consideration of the priority theme takes the form of agreed conclusions, negotiated by all Stateis. These identify gaps and challenges in the implementation of previous commitments. They also provide action-oriented recommendations for all States, relevant non-governmential bodies, mechanisms and entities of the UN System and other relevant stakeholders, in order to accelerate implementation.

 
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Finding a difficult balance: Human rights, law enforcement and cyber violence against women

Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
Mavic Cabrera-Balleza on 20 August, 2008
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GenderIT writer Mavic Cabrera-Balleza probed on new analytical frameworks of violence against womeni taking into account cyber violence and the challenges and dilemmas women activists confront as they struggle to address this relatively new dimension of gender iinjustice. She spoke with two women activists who are at the forefront of advocacyi on violence against women at the national and international levels - Lesley Ann Foster, founder and Executive Director of Masimanye Women’s Support Network in South Africa and Charlotte Bunch, founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA.

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Where is Women´s “J” Spot?

María Suárez Toro
María Suárez Toro on 9 December, 2009
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As the international community prepares to join the United Nation’s 49th Session of the Commission on the Status on Women (CSW), women media practitioners are asking: where is women’s “J” spot? Commonly known as “Beijing +10,” the role of the official UN session is to evaluate what governments have done to implement the Platform for Action (PFA) of the Fourth World Conference on Women 10 years ago in Beijing, China. The review and appraisal process will take place from February 28 to March 11, 2005 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Despite the fact that the PFA contemplates Section “J” in Chapter 3, about Women and Media, the issue is hardly found in the provisional agenda for the evaluationi process.
 
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