
WEL, Australia: The 2014-15 Federal Budget will increase the impact on women of income inequality
Budget burdens women with more work and less support

Budget burdens women with more work and less support

APWA (All Pakistan Women’s Association) Punjab Executive Committee strongly condemned the heinous stoning to death of three month pregnant Farzana Iqba

The EU supports gender equality through legislation and support for national development. European laws or directives call for equal treatment on the basis of sex and include equal pay for equal work. The Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee of the European Parliament plays a key role by sending out strong messages which determine policies in Europe.

Sexual harassment of women students in schools of higher education is often ignored or silenced

Torild Skard has retired as President of the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights. She has been an important champion of women’s and children’s rights nationally and internationally for decades.

Her new responsibility is added value to her role as UN main representative for the International Alliance of Women

The European Women’s Lobby, of which IAW is a member, is deeply concerned about a new attempt to undermine women’s rights.

Together with Scottish feminist economist Ailsa McKay, IAW board member Margunn Bjørnholt has co-edited the book Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics.
Report from CSW by Regina Smit, the Netherlands.