7/19/2000
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Burundian Women Convene, Denounce War Crimes Against Women
More than 50 Burundian women delegates convened in the four-day All-Party Women's Conference to discuss ways of promoting peace in their country and securing women's rights... |
7/19/2000
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Nigerian Government Will Establish Women Committee for Peace
The Nigerian government will soon create a national committee, Women For Peace, that seeks to unify women in efforts to eradicate gender discrimination and enlarge their roles in the decision-making process concerning national and international conflicts... |
7/19/2000
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Nearly 2500 Irish Women Traveled To England For Abortions Last Year
According to a report released by the British Pregnancy Service (BPAS), 2,460 Irish women a year travel to England for abortions - or twenty women a week... |
7/18/2000
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UNICEF Commends Nigeria's Women Empowerment Program
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) praised Nigeria's efforts to improve conditions for women there... |
7/18/2000
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Tokyo Trial Will Address War Crimes Against Women
The first trials that focus specifically on war crimes committed against women during World War II will be held by the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal in Tokyo in December... |
7/17/2000
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Tamil Rebels Force Girls to Serve As Child Soldiers
Tamil rebels invade schools, homes, and orphanages to seize hundreds of children, some as young as 9 and 10 and many of them girls, and send them into battle against the Sri Lankan Army, reported the University Teachers for Human Rights... |
7/17/2000
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U.N. Urges Taliban to Reverse Ban on Women Aid Workers
The United Nations has begun formal talks with the Taliban to convince them to reverse their ban on Afghan women working for international relief agencies... |
7/17/2000
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Thousands of Rape Survivors in Thailand Are Silent; Abortion Laws Remain Stringent
Women's groups are fighting to help rape survivors in Thailand, where the stigma and shame associated with rape has pushed thousands of young women into muted suffering and suicide... |
7/14/2000
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Vancouver RU 486 Doctor Receives Death Threat
The day after Dr... |
7/14/2000
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Women's Rights Groups Use Internet to Fight Taliban Oppression of Women
Cyberspace is crucial to uniting Afghan women against the Taliban oppression and heightening public awareness of the regime's atrocities... |
7/14/2000
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Women in Ghana Protest Serial Murders
On July 10th hundreds of women demonstrated in front of the police headquarters in Accra, Ghana, demanding resolution to the serial murders of 25 women... |
7/13/2000
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HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Millions Projected to be Orphans by 2010
The 13th International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa has helped to raise international attention to the HIV/AIDS epidemic... |
7/13/2000
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Taliban Accuses Relief Worker of Spying and Anti-Taliban Propaganda
International relief agencies have been working in an renewed climate of danger to their well-being since last week's Taliban edict ordering all aid agencies and the United Nations to dismiss all Afghan women staff... |
7/13/2000
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New Laws in Britain Would Increase Number of Women And Black MPs
If Britain's Labor Party succeeds in passing new laws that mandate quotas, every political party will be legally required to select women and black members of Parliament (MPs) in parliamentary seats... |
7/13/2000
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Reproductive Rights Key to Empowering Women, UN Reports
The United Nations' commemoration of World Population Day on July 11th emphasized the crucial link between reproductive rights and women's empowerment... |
7/13/2000
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Egyptian Throws His Wife From Window Over Chicken Dispute
An Egyptian oil ministry official flung his wife from a third-floor window after she refused to give him a larger helping of chicken than his sons... |
7/12/2000
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Taliban Orders Relief Worker to Leave Afghanistan
With the arrest of relief worker Mary MacMakin on July 11 and her deportation ordered by the Taliban on July 12, non-governmential aid organizations in Afghanistan are working in a tense atmosphere... |
7/12/2000
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U.S. and Others Could Have Prevented Rwanda Genocide, Report Says
The United States and other nations and institutions should pay a "significant level of reparations" for their failure to stop genocide in Rwanda in 1994, reported an independent international panel... |
7/12/2000
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U.S. Military Crimes Against Women Continue in Okinawa
The Okinawa Women Against Military Violence says that more than 4,700 crimes have been committed by U.S... |
7/12/2000
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UNIFEM Cites Gender Digital Divide As Global Issue
Unless information and communications technologies (ICTs) are equally shared between women and men, the economic and social gap between sexes will worsen, warns Noeleen Heyzer, the head of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)... |
