Preventing violence against women and girls, as Expert Group Meeting takes place in Bangkok Experts on preventing violence against women and girls are meeting this week in Bangkok to examine promising practices on prevention and present recommendations to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). CSW is the principal global policy-making body on gender equality and the advancement of women. During its next session in March 2013, UN Member States will share experiences and adopt … [Read more...]
India, 77 Year Widow Mohini Kamwani was Jailed when she Complained to Police about Violence
September 13, 2012 by
I need Legal Help in India - Good Honest Advocate to Help me Fight my Case in Hon. Bombay High Court... 23 August 2012 To Hon. CVC Commissioner SRI PRADEEP KUMAR ji, SRI R SRI KUMAR ji & SRI J M GARG ji & all Central Vigilance Commission Dept. Personnel God Bless all @Hon CVC...for Registering my 2nd Complaint of a Poor & Helpless 77 yr Freedom Fighter's Widow...facing Corruption Injustice from Police Govt. Mohini Kamwani ►►►2nd CVC Mail to me: portal-cvc@nic.in via … [Read more...]
Maria da Penha – WOMAN of ACTION™
September 7, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is honored to Celebrate the Life of this powerhouse that rose above extraordinary circumstances involving unheard of levels of violence, domestically. Today, this powerhouse works to help other women to regain dignity, safety and rise of domestic violence. Because her experience and sufferings, an actual law was enacted in Brazil under the symbolic name “Maria da Penha Law on Domestic and Family Violence.” WOMAN of … [Read more...]
JOBS: The UN Women Training Centre (CoP), Training for Gender Equality!
August 12, 2012 by
The UN Women Training Centre would like to invite you to join the recently renewed and updated Community of Practice, previously managed by UN INSTRAW (now UN Women). This online community and platform aims to support the informed discussion and reflection on the current trends of training and capacity development for gender equality, the collection and dissemination of good practices and the identification of institutions, opportunities and resources for training for gender equality at the … [Read more...]
Meena Seshu, founder of India’s SANGRAM: HIV,VIOLENCE & SEX WORK
July 25, 2012 by
As the founder of SANGRAM, an Indian non-governmental organisation that works with sex workers to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, Meena Seshu has strongly lobbied against the image of sex workers as powerless, irresponsible or even deserving of harm. Based in rural Maharashtra, the group seeks to empower the workers – most of whom are women – to form collectives and lobby for their rights. Here Seshu explains that in order to help reduce their vulnerability to HIV, any efforts must first help … [Read more...]
RACHAEL TENGBOM – WOMAN of ACTION™
July 25, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is excited to Celebrate the Life of an Amazing Maasai Woman. WOMAN of ACTION™ Rachael Tengbom RachaelTengbom is a native of the Maasai tribe and founder of ‘Voices of Hope’, an organization that rescues girls in Kaljiado, Kenya, Rachael’s home town. Voices of Hope is based in Kennewick and provides Maasai girls with education and a safe place to live. Her MISSION "As a teacher in Kenya, Rachael … [Read more...]
WOMAN of ACTION – Ms. Michelle Bachelet
July 11, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women is honored to Celebrate the Life of this powerhouse of a woman. Taking on a whole new department of the United Nations, catering to the gender equity of all the women of our world, this lady is to be watched closely and supported endlessly. Join us to Celebrate this day that her UN WOMEN CELEBRATED finally getting their own logo, as we review the day she accepted this placement below. WOMAN of ACTION Michelle Bachelet The former … [Read more...]
“Equality of Women Among Women”
July 8, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ Let us begin by saying that our vision includes the following solution to all gender issues: "Equality of Women Among Women" . A Celebration of Women™ is the first global forum where Women Leaders are being 'celebrated’ for spearheading positive action that betters the live of all women. Through the creation of our Alumni of WOMEN of ACTION™, a butterfly effect has begun, creating positive change for the Women of our World. We are advocating for, centralizing, … [Read more...]
Guatemala, Mayan language used to promote gender equality
July 7, 2012 by
Mam is a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and Mexico by about 500,000 people. The Guatemala Ministry of Education and WFP have been trained in this language to more than 300 teachers of bilingual schools in the use of textbooks in Mam among students to promote gender equality, food security and nutrition, and other topics. Radio host Rosario Sul González gets set for a show on Radio Ixchel, a pirate radio station in Guatemala that provides content for local indigenous Mayan residents. … [Read more...]
Susanna Vardanyan – WOMAN of ACTION™
June 29, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this trail blazing powerhouse, a pioneer in the women's movement. This woman is an obstetrician-gynecologist by training and working for a long time in the State University Center of Family Planning and Sexual Health, in Yerevan. After the collapse of the Soviet Union I got actively involved in women's movement, once the chance for that appeared, becoming one of the pioneers of the movement in Armenia. WOMAN of … [Read more...]
Zainab Hawa Bangura, Sierra Leone – Sexual Violence in Conflict
June 26, 2012 by
Secretary-General Appoints Zainab Hawa Bangura of Sierra Leone Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Zainab Hawa Bangura of Sierra Leone as his 'Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict' at the level of Under-Secretary-General. Ms. Bangura will replace Margot Wallström, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her dedicated service and able leadership in achieving milestones within a challenging … [Read more...]
