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"Please make sure we are no longer killed for political reasons"
Author: Ismael Saadat, June 11 2014 - "Sir, I have a request. As a future president of Afghanistan, please make sure we are no longer killed for political reasons. Let us die our natural deaths.”read more
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Looking beyond the minimum: The case of justice for women domestic workers
Author: Ranjani K. Murthy, June 17 2014 - It is three years since the ILO [International Labour Organization] Domestic Workers Convention (C 189) was adopted on June 16, 2011 (ILO, n.da). The...
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School-girl pregnancies: Elephant in the room for Zambian schools
Author: Elias Banda, June 23 2014 - The large number of Zambian school girls under the age of 16-years-old falling pregnant within the school system is a serious cause for concern that should make all...
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PEI Campaign for Scientific Independence of Africa
Author: Mehta Garima, June 28 2014 - The Millennium Development Goals for Africa are due to run out in 2015 and this has led to some of the best minds on the continent and the UN [United Nations]...
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Positioning Women's Land Rights in the Context of Right to Land
Author: Ranjani K. Murthy, July 1 2014 - Sex-disaggregated data on ownership of agricultural land is scarce. The Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO] provides data on share of women amongst...
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AIDS 2014 discusses media: a tool to end stigma
Author: Lucy Maroncha, July 23 2014 - Activists at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne [Australia] this week have urged journalists to be more creative and to use less stigmatizing...
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EU-UNODC Support Enhances Justice Sector Reforms in Benue State
Author: James Ayodele, August 1 2014 - The technical support being provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) under the Project "Support to the Justice Sector in Nigeria", funded...
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Independent Judiciary: Key to a Better Performing Judicial System
Author: James Ayodele, August 1 2014 - Under the European Union (EU) funded project “Support to the Justice Sector in Nigeria,” the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in collaboration...
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Why the poor linkage of women in STEM careers?
Author: Soraya Carvajal B., August 4 2014 - Can you mention some of the women who have played a decisive role in engineering, technologies of information or computer (ICT), participating in the...
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Lifting the lid on dowry-related violence in Nepal
Author: Bidhya Chapagain, August 4 2014 - Stories about violence against women in Nepal are, sadly, not rare. Since my schooldays, I’ve heard of women beaten by in-laws or taking their own lives...
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Women: The Voiceless or the Unheard Gender?
Author: Suchi Gaur, August 18 2014 - As I walked down the narrow road in a village in Butwal region of Nepal, I looked around and all I could see were mud houses and women trying to finish one or the...
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Education through Film: Traditional Views in Modern Society
Author: Allison Tunnoch, August 19 2014 - "Honor killings are acts of vengeance, usually death, committed by male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought dishonor...
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Are Gender-Sensitive Evaluations and Feminist Evaluations Different?
Author: Ranjani K. Murthy, cross-posted from the Gender and Evaluation website, August 22 2014 - In evaluation conferences, at times I hear "I do feminist evaluations, and not gender evaluations....
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EU, UNODC Partner to Strengthen IT Capacity of Justice Sector Officials in...
Author: James Ayodele, September 8 2014 - The computer and other information technology (IT) equipment are becoming commonplace across the justice sector in Nigeria. However, the lack of, or...
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Beijing Platform for Action: Progress and Challenges Twenty Years On
Author: Ranjani K. Murthy, September 8 2014 - At the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women held at Beijing in 1995, the UN, national governments and civil society called for action on eleven...
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Towards gender and socially just alcohol policy in India
Author: Ranjani K. Murthy,September 23 2014 - The other day, I was asked a question: “These days women in the corporate sector and elite colleges in Chennai, India want to visit pubs and drink just...
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Open Jirga: one man’s amazing Afghan journey
Author: Zabiullah Faizy, September 26 2014 - Abdurrasul Pamiri stunned the studio audience of our discussion programme Open Jirga when he revealed he had travelled eight days from the Pamir Mountains...
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Bringing hope after disaster in Nepal
Author: Bidhya Chapagain, September 26 2014 - Man Bahadur Lama was sitting in a relief centre when I first met him. Visibly shocked and heavy with grief, he told me he was desperately awaiting...
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'I now know my rights': preventing bonded labour in rural India
Author: Aashish Yadav, October 2 2014 - After a two year journey and countless stories of success, our bonded labour project is coming to an end.read more
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Human Rights for All
Author: Gillies C. Kasongo, October 20 2014 - People, the world over, are entitled to universal, inalienable and indivisible rights, by virtue of their common humanity.Everyone is entitled to live and...
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