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  • KENYA: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
    March 11, 2010

    The Kenyan Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) has been castigated by various women’s rights organisations for diluting the language in the draft document
  • Africa's Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
    March 10, 2010

    Whenever gender empowerment is a topic of international discussion, countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as...
  • Haiti's Rape Crisis
    March 9, 2010

    The aftershocks of the Port-au-Prince earthquake are hitting especially hard among displaced women, who face an outbreak of sexual violence.

     
  • Climate Change Excacerbates Gender Inequality
    March 9, 2010

    The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens.
  • SRI LANKA: Water Woes Fall on Women’s Shoulders
    March 9, 2010

    A water crisis has a grim impact on Sri Lanka’s women, whose long list of household chores includes securing and managing the family’s water supply. In rural areas, that can include ensuring a steady source for the...

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Blog Posts

Women 2012: Good News on Health and Education Bad News on Pay and Clout
vivhdem
By Natasha Cline-Thomas*Each year, NCRW hosts an expert roundtable on the afternoon of its Awards Dinner. This year’s program Women 2012: Taking a Worldwide Reading was enlightening. It...
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 4:02pm
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Women, Peace, and Security - US Policy Should Support UNSC Resolution 1325
vivhdem
By Shyama Venkateswar, Ph.D.*The National Council for Research on Women participates in the US Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security. We are currently disseminating a statement...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 3:36pm
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A Feminist Approach to UN Women
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Margot Baruch, an NCRW AMEX Fellow, recently posted a blog analyzing the newly established UN Women program. She writes that in order “for UN Women to be effective, it needs to incorporate a...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 12:02pm
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Celebrating Unsung Heroines: “The Dressmaker of Khair Khana”
vivhdem
By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon In 2005 I traveled to Afghanistan to write a newspaper story about women entrepreneurs, women who turned to business to create jobs and hope for their families. I wanted to...
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 4:12pm
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Our Opportunity for International Women’s Day
Kyla Bender-Baird
By Tiffany Dufu*I took the helm at The White House Project at an interesting moment for women. Last week’s report from the White House, which Kate Meyer mentioned in yesterday’s post,...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 5:13pm
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Reports & Publications

WOMEN GO GLOBAL CD-ROM
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:31am
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:22am
Gains and Gaps: A Look at the World's Women
Friday, April 10, 2009 - 11:46pm
MISSING Information About Women's Lives
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:25am