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March 19, 2009 by Isis International with the reports from the Asia Pacific Women's Watch argaiv1565 After lengthy and tense negotiations, the 53rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women came to an end last 13 March 2009 in New York, United States, leaving most feminists satisfied. With the theme, "The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including care-giving in the context of HIV/AIDS," CSW affirmed the need to put in place responses that will recognise and encourage the equal roles between women and men in caring for people with HIV-AIDS beginning at the community level. The Agreed Conclusions noted the important international agreements such as the International Labour Organisation's Convention 156 which calls for a reconciliation between work and family responsibilities. As they recognise the care-giving work in households, which are mostly assumed by women and girls, the document asked that such usually unpaid contribution be measured. It stressed that results from such metrics can better inform future policies and programmes on HIV-AIDS and care-givers especially women and girls. |
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March 5, 2009
By Isis International The 53rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) opened last 2 March 2009, with the theme, "The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS." Over 3,000 women are expected to attend the session which will last until 13 March 2009. |
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“The attainment of the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) depends on women’s empowerment and gender equality as spelled out in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discmrination Against Women (CEDAW).” |
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July 12 2005 By Mavic Cabrera-Balleza Gender and ICT advocates from all world regions joined some 2,000 other women activists at the Women's Worlds Congress 2005, -the 9TH International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women-, held at Ewha University in Seoul, Korea, June 19-24. The congress was a cooperative effort between 5 of Korea's universities for women, Sogang University, Yonsei University, Sookmyung Women's University, the Korean Women's Development Institute and Ewha University. Sixteen panel discussions and workshops on gender and the new information and communication technologies (ICT) were organized by the Asia-Pacific Women's Information Network Centre (APWINC). |
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Sexual and reproductive rights, democracy/civil society/women as a global force, peace/security/violence and macro-economics/neo-liberal agenda: these were the four areas focused on at the NGO Global Strategy Meeting for Beijing+10. |
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