The global financial crisis led to greater job loss and poverty among women than men while rising food prices and responsibility for social reproduction take excessive tolls on the livelihoods of women. Financial crises and austerity measures to combat crises undermine the human rights to work, education, health and nourishment and the capacity to provide […]
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The Group of 20 (G20) has declared itself the “premier global economic forum” and was created to tackle the most pressing challenges confronting the world economy today, including reducing instability and preventing future financial crises. The G20 has committed itself to a goal of shared and inclusive growth. Given this commitment, it is striking how […]
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Lisa VeneKlasen and Alia Khan. The authors present first a contextual analysis of the forces and actors shaping the reality of women’s lives today. They outline the importance of changing hearts and minds with time-tested strategies and new forms of organizing that can fuel development of and support for alternative economic arrangements that respect the rights, dignity, and […]
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Why and how is global governance relevant to women’s rights and why is it so complex and difficult to talk about in the current world reality? With contributions from key leaders and thinkers this in-depth session shared relevant characteristics of the current global context, exploring for example the connections between how growth is defined and […]
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By Jac sm Kee. Jac is the focal point for APC WNSP’s work on women’s rights. She coordinates the EROTICS research (Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet) and APC’s “Take Back The Tech!” campaign. From falling in love to falling into debt It is not an exaggeration to say that the internet has entered […]
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FRIDAY FILE: In 2011 the United Nations consolidated all four UN bodies working on gender equality – OSAGI, UNIFEM, INSTRAW, and DAW, to create one UN agency working on women’s rights. On behalf of the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign, Charlotte Bunch, founding member of the GEAR campaign reflects on the first year of […]
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By Akoko Akech. Despite the promise of a new constitution, arguably, East Africa’s most progressive or liberal constitution, Kenya still has the lowest level of women representation in key places of decision making and could face a serious constitutional crisis, if it does not find a suitable mechanism for effecting several constitutions provisions on gender […]
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In this interview Zohra Khan of UN Women provides an overview around the Gender Responsive Budgeting approach, its achievements so far and major challenges ahead as a possible strategy to face up with the crisis, in poor countries as well as in rich economies. She also reports on the key issues emerged during the AWID […]
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Elaine Zuckerman is a woman I met last month at the AWID Women’s Rights in Development conference in Istanbul, Turkey; she fights in Washington D.C. every day for women’s voices to be heard in international financial institutions (IFI). She started Gender Action 10 years ago, and it is the only organization that holds international financial institutions […]
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Jan Moolman. In 2001 while working at Agenda, a South African feminist academic journal, we produced an edition titled ‘Globalisation: challenging dominant discourses’. The journal problematised the realpolitik of a global neo-liberal economic system that was marked by developing countries’ indebtedness, the rise of the market and the devastating consequences of structural adjustment policies for […]
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World YWCA staff member Marie–Claude Julsaint, Global Programme Manager for Violence Against Women;, attended the Association for Women’s Rights in Development’s (AWID) 2012 conference on « Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice », in Istanbul, Turkey, from April 19 – 22. The forum focused on exploring issues on economic power and development from a […]
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The world’s recent financial and political upheavals have not been kind to women. In Libya’s Tripoli, female suicide rates increased tenfold during the revolution, while dismal job prospects have young Greek women abandoning their career aspirations, participants in a global forum on women’s rights said over the weekend. “Many people say this is a time for […]
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YAKIN ERTURK. Women’s human rights discourse and movements have become entangled within a culture-versus-rights dualism. Yakin Ertürk argues that this is a false dualism which serves both private patriarchy and public patriarchy of neo-liberal globalisation The 1990’s was a remarkable period in experiencing the unravelling of a world order that has characterised much of the […]
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Global geopolitics is rapidly changing. Triggered in part by systemic crises, and alongside the ever-present power of private sector actors, new powers are emerging. These new powers include the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), regional political and economic blocs and communities such as the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the […]
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