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As a graduate student searching for a job in the humanitarian sector, it has been suggested to me that employers look for key words in cover letters and on CVs - words that imply that the ...
Cynthia Enloe puts women at the heart of politics and international affairs In the midst of war or at the end of one as a shattered society begins to pick up the pieces, women’s ...
On The Frontlines: Gender, War, And The Post-Conflict Process, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Dina Francesca Haynes and Naomi Cahn, Oxford University Press, £18.99, $29.95 In On The Frontlines: Gender, War, And The Post-Conflict ...
Lessons from the So-Called ‘Powerless’ Women of the North. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced last month it was closing down operations in Sri Lanka, where in 2009 it had run the world ...
The Favored Daughter: One Woman’s Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future, Fawzia Koofi with Nadene Ghouri, Palgrave Macmillan, £16.99/$26.00 Fawzia Koofi’s new book gives a rare and gripping insight ...
The 2011 UNDP Human Development Report presents evidence that power imbalances and gender inequalities are linked to reduced access to improved water and sanitation, land degradation and deaths from air pollution. The report states that ...
A new UN-commissioned report warns that unless checked, environmental hazards could curb or even halt the good progress being made to raise developing nations out of poverty. The UNDP (UN Development Program) released its 2011 ...
While US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met privately with members of the Syrian National Council at a hotel in Geneva (December 6), journalists were diverted to the nearby UN headquarters to await what was ...
Confronting Equality, Gender, Knowledge and Global Change Raewyn Connell, Polity Books, 19.20 € Want to have a vastly different perspective on the meaning of social justice? Raewyn Connell’s new book gathers her more recent ...
The End of Straight Supremacy, Realizing Gay Liberation, Shannon Gilreath, Cambridge University Press, $26.95/£18.99 Shannon Gilreath writes his new book with a certain fire that is at first sight off-putting. Throughout, Gilreath ...
Humanitarian action inadequately takes into account gender issues. According to the 2011 Humanitarian Response Index released by DARA (March 7, 2012), there is a significant gap in understanding of the importance of gender concerns by ...
The proliferation of sexual violence and female oppression in India is truly disturbing. The Times of India recently reported that 95% of women in Delhi and the surrounding areas feel unsafe outdoors. While the recent ...
We know that the United States is currently engaged in two wars - one in Afghanistan and one in Iraq - and yet war’s impact on women goes unacknowledged. Now for the first time a series ...
The World Bank’s recently released 2012 World Development Report on gender equality and development has some encouraging news and some not-so-encouraging news. First, for the glass-half-full perspective: The report found that in all developed ...
A long overdue global advocacy campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been launched (December 12) in Geneva by the newly-created Global Alliance against Female Genital Mutilation. With an estimated 100 to 140 million girls ...
Check out if Femmes Africa Solidarité is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! African women building peace. 15 years of expertise and impact. The result of a brainstorming session held in Geneva amongst a ...
Flavia Bustreo and Mario Merialdi both have long experience linked to the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality worldwide. Within the World Health Organization they have already carried out several projects addressing issues related to ...
Leading the fight against global poverty. HQ: Switzerland In the world of emergency relief and international development, there are a handful of organizations that have transcended their inter-war or post-war roots and built a global ...
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