Source: New VisionUK Equalities Minister and Champion for Tackling Violence against Women and Girls Overseas, Lynne Featherstone visited a women’s protection centre for victims of domestic violence in Mubende District.
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Source: IPSWorldwide, women are largely responsible for managing family budgets, controlling 65 percent of global spending. But, women’s needs are often ignored when it comes to government budgeting, delegates at an international meet in the Turkish capital observed.
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Source: IPSKristin Palitza interviews NICKY NEWTON-KING, the first female chief executive officer of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.More than three years after the start of the global economic crisis, which has had a considerable impact on African trade, investments and gross domestic product, investment prospects on the continent are increasing.
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Source: UN News CentreThe UN Security Council today held a meeting at which it heard of the need to strengthen the role of women in the area of peace and security, such as through increased participation in politics.
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Source: University World NewsGraça Machel, the renowned humanitarian and activist, is to be the new president of the School of Oriental and African Studie at the University of London.
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Source: UN RadioEconomic policies should be more responsive to the needs of women and more instrumental to achieving inclusive development.
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Source: IPSIncreasing numbers of Malian women are being raped by Tuareg rebels and armed groups that have swept across the north of Mali since the beginning of year, expelling all government troops from the region.
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Source: UN WOMENWomen from across Zimbabwe have celebrated the launch of a strategic high-level women’s coalition. The voluntary group will lobby to ensure that the new constitution, currently being drafted, will deliver on gender equality and empowerment for women in the country.
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Source: UNFPA
Since this story was initially published in early 2010, the contraceptive prevalence rate for long-acting family planning methods has already increased -- from 1.3 per cent to 4.3 per cent according to the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey, 2011. This has helped boost the overall increase in CPR in the country from 14 to 29 percent between 2005 and 2011. Hormonal implants are one of three contraceptives given priority under the newly formed United Nations Commission on Commodities for Women and Children’s Health .
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Source: New VisionPolice has sanctioned an internal investigation of its officers who were involved in FDC's Ingrid Turinawe's arrest last Friday over alleged sexual assault.
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Source: Daily SunAda Agina-Udeh's life revolves around women because her aim is to be a change agent for our society. As the Executive Director of Gender and Development Action (GADA), she is not only a frontline gender activist but also a force to reckon with when it comes to female political participation. She told Daily Sun recently that ignorance is the worst enemy of women in all sphere of life.
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Source: IRINInter-communal disputes over land and the allocation of land to private investors for cultivation, could threaten peace in parts of northern Uganda, warn officials.
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Source: Public AgendaThe United Nations Entity on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has described the violence which has been experienced at certain polling stations over the biometric registration as a manifestation of intolerance.
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Source: Latina Lista
Thousands of women gathering to make the world a better place ― you got a problem with that? You might think some people do if you look at the timeline for the UN-sponsored World Conferences on Women: 1975 (Mexico), 1980 (Copenhagen), 1985 (Nairobi) . . . 1995 (Beijing) . . . and then?? No wonder the crescendo is swelling for a 2015 conference, 5WCW to its friends. Be one! Our founder Patricia Smith Melton explains why and how.
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Source: IPSThe 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.
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Source: ReutersThe head of the African Development Bank said on Sunday he is willing to provide $45 million in budget financing for Malawi to help new President Joyce Banda revive the struggling economy.
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Source: Today's ZamanMore than 2,000 women's rights activists in town for the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) 2012 forum marched down a well-known street on Sunday in İstanbul's Beyoğlu district.
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Source: Public ServiceFemale figures have taken pivotal roles during Middle East uprisings. But with women failing to be taken seriously in coming elections, human rights are under threat. Zahid Mahmood reports from the Youth Professionals Summit at the Brussels Forum.
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Source: UNFPAAs the father of four daughters and as the Executive Director for UNFPA, a leading UN agency working on maternal health, it warms my heart to see that safe motherhood and women's reproductive health are finally being recognized as important development issues.
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