Women

With some electoral gains in Iraq, women candidates work towards change

UN Women published an interesting article on women candidates in Iraq: To run as a political candidate in Iraq demands courage and determination – even more so for a woman. Fourteen candidates, including one woman, were murdered in the run-up to local elections held in April – the...

Sheryl Sandberg ‘Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead’

Our next Reading Group will be about Sheryl Sandberg‘s book:  ‘Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead‘. The book of COO of Facebook published on March 11, 2013, has already been translated in 24 languages and is on the top of the US bestseller lists since its...

#FreeKordofanWomen: Campaign to Release South Kordofan Women

Girifna, which translates from Arabic as “we are fed up” (with war, corruption, dictatorship, injustice, and discrimination against minorities), is a grassroots movement founded by a group of university students in October of 2009 to create a pro-democracy movement that could unite...

Morocco’s Gender-Equality Laws, Massive Rape Crisis in Syria, Ban pesticides

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: The economic integration of women has actually declined in Morocco; In Syria, regime soldiers are said to be sexually violating women and men from the opposition; Bee numbers have declined significantly in...

Egypt opposition forms permanent women rights committee

Egypt’s National Salvation Front (NSF) announced on Sunday that it has formed a permanent committee to defend women’s rights and address the attack on their entitlement to these rights. “The targeting of women is in fact an attack on the identity of the nation. It aborts the...

Taliban victim Malala Yousafzai starts school in UK

Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan while advocating girls’ education, attended her first day of school in the UK, weeks after being released from hospital. The 15-year-old, who is among nominees for this year’s Nobel peace...

Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art & Voices

Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art & Voices is an online exhibition featuring the art, voices, and stories of Muslim women around the globe. It’s a global online exhibition from the International Museum of Women (IMOW). Muslima presents a groundbreaking collection of thought pieces...

One Woman: A Song for UN Women

Launched on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2013, the song is a rallying cry that inspires listeners to join the drive for women’s rights and gender equality. “One Woman” was written for UN Women, the global champion for women and girls worldwide, to celebrate...

Advocacy Training, International Women’s Day, Kenya’s election results

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Enough Project hosted an advocacy, media, and development training in Washington, D.C., Reporters Without Borders sends an open letter to the authorities in Tunisia, International Women’s Day...

Half the Sky Movement: The Game now on Facebook

Last month we published a news: Half the Sky Movement: The Game and other cause games. Since yesterday you can play Half the Sky Movement: The Game on Facebook. We have played the game and it’s great. Critics so far have been very good and enthusiastic: The Los Angeles Times writes:...