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Cabinet ministers can no longer continue burying their heads in the sand when it comes to gender equality issues as pressure amounts from the EU to establish gender quotas in the boardroom and politics, said MP Marianne Mikko.

On Thursday March 2, an IsraAID delegation of Israeli experts will fly to Juba, South Sudan, with the support of a private family foundation and the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and in cooperation with FIRST and the Israel-based NGO Operation Blessing Israel, to conduct the first ever Gende

28 February 2012- Having already testified to a government commission, victims of sexual violence eschew new process based on traditional justice

1 March, 2012- For the past twenty years Moroccan women, from the liberal camp to the Islamist, have campaigned for equal rights for women. Their struggle has borne many triumphs and is gradually beginning to change the lives of women throughout the country.

Women’s involvement in high public administration and government positions is again becoming an issue for discussions ahead of the upcoming parliamentary and local elections in Armenia. 

1 Mar, 2012 - The African National Congress (ANC) Women's League has set out bold equity targets in its gender paper, prepared ahead of the party's policy conference, targeting unemployment among women while boosting economic empowerment.

1 Mar, 2012 - Natural disasters are not neutral in the way that they impact people. They compound social exclusion and existing vulnerabilities, disproportionately impacting the poor, women, children, the elderly, the disabled, minority groups and those marginalized in other ways.