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Pop Culture with a Purpose: Edutainment media for social change
Oxfam Novib - Knowledge Infrastructure for and between Counterparts portal, 2010What is ‘Edutainment’? It is an abbreviation for ‘Entertainment-Education’, which is a communication-centred strategy to bring about positive social change.DocumentGender Accountability: Services Fail Poor Women
Gender Diversiteit Annette Evertzen, 2008What role can donors play in ensuring that women and girls are able to claim their right to equal access to basic services? How can donors help ensure these services are gender-sensitive? This paper considers what is needed in order to make public services - mainly health and education - work for poor women. It argues that services often fail poor women and girls in three key respects:DocumentUNIFEM Afganistan Fact Sheet 2007
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007What is women's situation in Afghanistan in 2007? This factsheet presents key statistics in a number of key areas, including political participation, labour force participation, health, education, marriage and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world, and a low female life expectancy of just 44 years.DocumentIraq: The Status of Women in Iraq: An Assessment of Iraq's De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International Legal Standards
Iraq Legal Development Project, 2005Although women in Iraq have a 25 percent quota in political representation, they still face considerable obstacles in their quest to secure their human rights. This paper assesses the degree to which Iraqi women in law (de jure) and in practice (de facto) enjoy the protection of their rights as guaranteed under international agreements.DocumentAny Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?
2005Contrary to reports from Burma's ruling military regime on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) (the plan to come out of the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women), women in Myanmar do not enjoy equal rights with men.DocumentGender, HIV/AIDS and Stigma: Understanding Prejudice Against Women Living with HIV/AIDS
BRIDGE, 200662 men and women between the ages of 18 and 55 from the Khayelitsha Township in the Western Cape participated in six focus groups in this study about the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. They reported that HIV/AIDS is seen as a woman's disease. This is not simply because most women die from it but also because positive women experience stigma more than men. Norms of ?township masculinity?DocumentInformation Leaflets for People with Sexual Problems
Outsiders, 2006This series of 15 short leaflets provides clear information and practical advice for people with disabilities in the UK.DocumentGender Politics: Citizenship, Activism and Sexual Diversity
Pluto Press, 2005Is it possible to move beyond the male-female gender binary system?' This book begins with this question.DocumentWorking with the media on gender and education: a guide for training and planning
Oxfam, 2006How can education and gender campaigners, and organisations and coalitions, work more effectively with the media to promote gender-equitable education? This guide was developed following two workshops which were held in Nairobi, Kenya and Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2005 and 2006. Gender equality issues in education are explored and practical advice on working with the media is given.DocumentCommittee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Thirty-first session: Consideration of Fifth Periodic Report of Bangladesh. Summary records of the 653rd and 654th meetings
2004Resources allocated to the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs in Bangladesh have increased fivefold in the last three years. This was one of the achievements flagged up by the delegation from Bangladesh as they presented their Fifth Periodic Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.Pages