The Her War Chest Progam was launched in Accra with a maiden capacity building program on June 6th, 2009 at the University of Ghana, Legon.

The program is non-partisan, national in scope with no ethnic or age bias.

The program's main goal is to build the capacity of at least 200 women aspiring for public office every year for the next four years.

Topics covered are:
1. The Local Government System - Opportunities for Women
2. Campaigning and Fundraising
3. Public Speaking
4. Managi more...

13th- 31st of October 2008. UN-INSTRAW brought together the members of its Gender, Peace and Security Research Directory and academics around the world in a virtual dialogue. The aim of this discussion series was to assess current debates in gender, peace and security research with a goal of exchanging information, identifying research gaps, and building a platform for further collaboration.

Curator's Statement. Eight extraordinarily engaged artists from Magnum Photos have ventured far from home to visualize some of the external aspects of individual lives marked by AIDS and its consequences. Supported by the Global Fund on the ground, Jonas Bendiksen, Jim Goldberg, Alex Majoli, Steve McCurry, Paolo Pellegrin, Gilles Peress, Eli Reed, and Larry Towell each embraced the responsibility to document with objectivity and compassion the role of medical intervention in the fight against a more...

This portal offers a searchable digitable library of free and full-text internet resources on women’s political participation, women’s representation, women/gender and decentralization, women’s rights and rights-based approaches, institutional mainstreaming, accountability, and women/gender in policy processes. The portal is developed and maintained by the Royal Tropical Institute, the Netherlands.

The sexual exploitation of children is not inevitable. That was the message coming out of Rio de Janeiro on November 28, where 137 governments met with children, international organizations, NGOs and private sector companies at the World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents.
While those gathered in Brazil recognize that ending child sexual exploitation is a long and difficult battle, the organizing partners of the World Congress say countries are in a better pos more...

Regional Sanitation Conclave – New Delhi, October 24, 2008. “We started in 2006 with only a handful of advocates,” says Shah Jahan, community activist, Integrated Regional Support Program (IRSP), Mardan, in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province, “slowly we began to motivate people, visited schools to win over children.
Today 7 of the 48 villages in our Union Council have become open defecation free. It’s a start. Community-Led Total Sanitation should be part of school education. Pu more...

The World Congress III against the Sexual Exploitation of Children, set for 25-28 November 2008 in Brazil, aims to promote international cooperation for more effective action on sexual exploitation. Here is one in a series of related stories. BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan: Rumilya's life changed when her mother was detained for theft. Rumilya, then 12, and her sister Lili, then 16, were sent to live with 'caregivers'. One of them, Madina, had other ideas.

Madina told Rumilya that if she went to Dubai, more...

RIO DE JANEIRO, 28 November 2008 - The sexual exploitation of children is not inevitable. That was the message coming out of Rio de Janeiro today where 137 governments have been meeting with children, international organizations, NGOs and private sector companies. While those gathered in Brazil recognize that ending child sexual exploitation is a long and difficult battle, the organizing partners say countries are in a better position now to win the fight as a result of days of work developing a more...

Leadership is the theme for World AIDS Day 2007 and 2008, promoted with the campaigning slogan, 'Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.' Leadership encourages leaders at all levels to stop AIDS. Building on the 2006 theme of accountability, leadership highlights the discrepancy between the commitments that have been made to halt the spread of AIDS, and actions taken to follow them through. Leadership empowers everyone -- individuals, organisations, governments -- to lead in the response to AIDS.

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UNESCO offices from Almaty to Yaoundé are organizing a wide range of activities, building on the theme of ‘leadership’ and the Organization's longstanding work on HIV and AIDS. UNESCO Almaty - In Kazakhstan, UNESCO is collaborating with the national in-service Teacher Training Institute and other partners to organize a national workshop on HIV prevention education. The workshop will raise awareness among teachers and key stakeholders from fifteen regions, building specific skills to deliver more...