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by Isis International

The 53rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) opened last 2 March 2009, with the theme, “The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS.” Over 3,000 women are expected to attend the session which will last until 13 March 2009.

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Statement of the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign* disseminated during the 54th Commission on the Status of Women Meeting

The global campaign for Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR Campaign) welcomes the priority theme for the fifty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women on “the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS” as well as the review theme on “equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels" adopted at the fiftieth session of Commission on the Status of Women.

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by Nina Somera

Feminists and human rights activists in Iran and beyond are calling for the immediate release of Iranian women's human rights defender Alieh Eghdam-Doust from the Evin prison in Tehran.

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by Nina Somera

The proposed Philippine Magna Carta of Women is now in the process of being finalised in a bicameral conference. The two houses of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate are reconciling their respective versions of the bill, which has been met with stiff opposition from the Catholic church and critiques among women's groups.

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by the Women's Assembly

The world is currently experiencing various crises that demonstrate that this system is not viable. Financial, food, climate and energetic crises are not isolated phenomena, but represent a crisis of the model itself, driven by the super exploitation of work and the environment, and financial speculation of the economy.

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by Nina Somera

The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44^th President of the United States is not only the world's most televised event. His first 100 days have likewise kept people attuned, especially those from the global South who are counting on his pronouncements on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other thorny issues.