March 8th: International Women's Day
Are you surprised that the poster is written in Spanish? That’s fully intentional. It has the colors of the old IAW website.
At the moment we don’t want to reminisce, but to focus on the present and the future.
On the occasion of today’s International Women’s Day, we have short reports from four of our members about their countries and some facets of the lives of the women there.
Read the reports about
- the celebration of women in Cameroon by Anne Pélagie Yotchou Tzudjom
- the social situation of women in Guinea Bissau by Munira Jauad Ribeiro
- the digital divide based on gender and financial means in India by Anjana Basu
- the demand to give girls with disabilities unhindered access to digital opportunities by Dr. Ernestine Ngo Melha (linked to the website of AAEEH, please choose the language)four
OPINIONS
Women of rural India are left behind
March 8th 2023, International Women’s Day as an Occasion for Reflection on the Digital Female Future in India At a time when the UN has
February 27 – World NGO Day
As we celebrate the World NGO Day, … … I thank those who worked tirelessly to promote women’s human rights, gender equality, and the empowerment
Housekeeping from a Feminist Perspective
As this letter addresses my statement as IAW President, I first must say that I consider the accusation made against my metaphor far-fetched. However, Hon.
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Mon09Mar2015Fri20Mar2015All dayNew YorkShow content
CSW59/Beijing+20 (2015)
The fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York, tentatively scheduled for 9-20 March 2015.
Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world attend the session. The Commission will undertake a review of progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 20 years after its adoption at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. The review (Beijing+20) will also include the outcomes of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly, the first five-year assessment conducted after the adoption of the Platform for Action
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Tue10Mar20154:30 pmCC UN, New York – Boss RoomShow content
Lessons Learnt from Women Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide
Senior Researcher Torild Skard, , IAW, Norway, presents her new book
“Women of power – half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide” (Bristol: Policy Press).
Skard analyses the careers of 73 women in 53 countries to find out how women managed to go to the top, and if their role as top leaders made a difference to women?
Discussion:
The findings of the book and policies to increase the number of women in the top leadership worldwide will be discussed by
Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Administrator of the UN Development Programme, UNDP, (tbc)
Mona Lena Krook, Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, US,
Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica (tbc)
Moderator: Joanna Manganara, President, International Alliance of Women (IAW)
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Wed11Mar20156:15 pmCC UN, New York – 10th FloorShow content
DEEDS – NO WORDS
IMPLEMENTING CEDAW & UN SC RESOLUTION 1325WOMEN – PEACE – SECURITY
Keynote speaker:
Prof. Marilou McPhedran, Director Institute for Internat. Women’s Rights,Winnipeg
Legal Framework CEDAW & UN SC Res.1325Discussants:
Mavic Cabrera Balleza, Philippines, Global Coordinator of Global Network of Women Peacebuilders:
Sexual and Gender-based Violence as a weapon of warHibaaq Osman, Cairo, CEO El-Karama
Women as agents in conflict prevention, conflict resolution, peace building and reconstruction of societiesEva Nagy, Norway, International Institute for Peace Education (tbc)
Educating for conflict prevention and resolutionMs Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, Deputy Secretary General Council of Europe (tbc)
Council of Europe / EU South ProgrammeModerator. Rosy Weiss, Honorable President of IAW
Co-chairs: Joanna Manganara, President IAW
Hibaaq Osman, Founder and CEO El-Karama
Co-sponsor:
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Fri13Mar201510:30 amCC UN, New YorkShow content
Why the future of economics and economic development must be feminist.
Objective
This side-event will gather a panel of feminist economists to reflect on how can insights from feminist economics inform policies and contribute to the realization of women’s social and economic rights?
Background/motivation
The distribution of resources remains gendered and processes of change, including economic crises, neoliberal reforms, welfare state retrenchment and globalization, have huge gendered impacts.Today feminist economics has become an academic field of its own, which is an important source of theory, methods, tools and empirical evidence, necessary for policies and models to assure ending the economic discrimination against women.
Speakers
Edith Kuiper, Economics Department & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
State University of New York at New Paltz:
Women and Gender are Core to the FieldMarilyn Power, Sarah Lawrence University
Social provisioning as a starting point for feminist economicsJennifer Olmsted, Dept of Economics and Director of Middle East studies, Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA.
Challenging the Humanitarian/Development Divide Through a Feminist Economics LensTulay Atay Avsar-Ana, Anadolu University, Turkey
-Title: To be confirmedMargunn Bjørnholt, Policy and Social Research AS:
New advances, new policies: theory, activism and policynaking -
Wed30Sep201512.00 – 13.30Room XX111, Palais des Nations , Geneva
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Tue06Oct2015Sun11Oct2015All dayParisShow content
Much to the regret of the Union of Kuwaiti Women and IAW as a whole the International Meeting cannot be held in Kuwait. The situation in the region is too unstable.
Instead the meeting will be held in Paris
The International Meeting is the meeting where Presidents of the member organizations of IAW meet with members of the Board to exchange views, plan policies and make decisions for Congress in 2016.
This International Meeting will also include a seminar
All members of IAW are welcome to attend the meeting. We look forward to getting the advice and input from any member who wishes to contribute.
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Fri13Nov20151.15 – 2.45 p.mPalais des Nations, UN, Geneva, outside conference room XVI