Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is an annual campaign to raise public awareness about sexual assault and educate communities and individuals on how to prevent sexual violence. It is observed in April. Each year during the month of April, state, territory, tribal and community-based organizations, rape crisis centers, government agencies, businesses, campuses and individuals plan events and activities to highlight sexual violence as a public health, human rights and social justice issue … [Read more...]
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, (ECLAC) – Care of Dependents
August 23, 2012 by
Care of Dependents Must Be Shared between State and Families Currently, most of this work falls to women only. Poll of opinion makers stresses the need for public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. (August 2012) According to a study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, (ECLAC), responsibility for the care of dependents (particularly children, the disabled, older adults and the sick) must be shared between the State and families, rather than … [Read more...]
Malleus Maleficarum – indoctrinated the world to “the dangers of free-thinking women"
January 3, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ has been motivated into Taking Action! With our world in such a state of crisis due to excessive Violence Against Women, we decided to share some research and opinions on the History of this Act Against Women; some of the beginnings, reasons, and sources of the origin of this fear or threat of women by men, state and church. Understanding some of the original motives may assist with a re-birth of attitude, positive change creating a new respect for the role of a … [Read more...]
Religion, Politics and Gender Equality
May 20, 2011 by
Religion, Politics and Gender Equality Research and Policy Brief: 11 Code: RPB 11 Contrary to modernist predictions that religion would retreat into a private zone of worship and practice, recent decades have seen religion become increasingly salient on the political stage worldwide. Does this matter? From the point of view of women’s rights and gender equality, much is at stake. UNRISD research shows that politicized religion impinges on women’s rights in problematic ways. The … [Read more...]
Celebrate HHS: Approaching 30 Years of HIV/AIDS in the United States
April 8, 2011 by
Approaching 30 Years of HIV/AIDS in the United States In less than two months, we will mark the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of what we now know as AIDS. In June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a rare form of pneumonia diagnosed in five, previously healthy, gay men from Los Angeles. The report raised concerns that these five men had been exposed to something that caused their profound immune suppression. Now we know that their … [Read more...]
