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Gendering HIV and AIDS
Last month VSO’s Rachael Stokes and Makena Mwobobia attended the 56th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Rachel’s comment on the session: “The underlying message appears to be that we simply cannot afford to wait” captures the spirit of our new position paper on Gender… Read more »
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Where women have a voice and representation, change will follow
The first thing that strikes me about the 56th session of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) is how strange it seems to be discussing the empowerment of rural women in the big urban metropolis that is New York, a city synonymous with wealth and power, skyscrapers and Starbucks.
The second… Read more »
Give rural women more opportunities and more rights
It almost goes without saying that rural women have a vital role to play in the development of their communities and efforts to tackle poverty. They make up the majority of small holder farmers worldwide and are responsible for 80% of global food production. Rural women also undertake the majority of unpaid labour intensive household… Read more »
How can we improve aid effectiveness?
Active citizenship and gender equality are key factors to improving aid effectiveness.
VSO will take this message to the Busan Aid Effectiveness Forum in Korea next week. We’ll be joining thousands of other delegates from around the world, including many of our local and international partners.
The Paris Declaration (2005) established… Read more »
Happy International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day VSO offices and partners around the world will be celebrating the achievements, remembering set-backs and making plans for the continuing struggles.
To support disadvantaged women around the world and UN Women, VSO will be launching a new global advocacy campaign on gender inequality in summer 2011. This… Read more »
VSO at the Commission on the Status of Women
In February, VSO sent a small delegation to the United Nations 55th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, as part of our commitment to increase our work on gender over the next two years.
NGOs from around the world gathered on Monday 21 February for… Read more »
