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Statement: International Women's Day 2013
08 March 2013
It was Socialist International Women’s founder Clara Zetkin and her Social Democratic Party colleague Luise Zeite who first suggested that one day a year is marked as International Women's Day. It was adopted as a resolution at the 1910 Second International Socialist Women’s conference in Copenhagen in an act of international solidarity with US delegates who’d honored the 1910 women garment workers strike with a US women’s day...
Event: Empowering Women and Girls to Protect them from Violence
Fifty-seventh Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), United Nations, New York, from 04 to 15 March 2013
Panel discussion hosted by the Permanent Mission of Niger to the United Nations and the Socialist International Women
Date: Thursday 07 March 2013
Place: African Union building, 305 E 47th Street, 5th Floor, New York
Time: 13.00hrs - 14.45hrs
SPEAKERS:
• BOUBACAR BOUREIMA, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Niger to the United Nations
• OUAFA HAJJI, President, Socialist International Women, Morocco
• HADIZATOU YACUBA OUSSEINI, President, Tarayya Women's Organisation, OFT, Party for Democracy and Socialism of Niger, PNDS, Niger
• JESSIE EWALD BENOIT, Vice-President, Union of Haitian Social Democrats Party, Haiti
• ALWATA ICHATA SAHI, Minister of Family, Women and Child Promotion, Mali
• MAIKIBI KADIDIATOU DAN-DOBI, Minister of Population, Women's Promotion and Child Protection, Niger
Event: Ending all Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls
Fifty-seventh Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), United Nations, New York, from 04 to 15 March 2013
Panel discussion hosted by the Socialist International Women
Date: Thursday 07 March 2013
Place: Room V-Hall, Armenian Convention Center, 630 2nd Avenue (at 35th Street), New York, NY 10017
Time: 08.30hrs - 10.00hrs
SPEAKERS:
• OUAFA HAJJI, President, Socialist International Women, Morocco
• CHANTAL KAMBIWA, Vice-President, Socialist International, Cameroon
• JANET CAMILO, President, Dominican Federation of Social Democratic Women, FEDOMUSDE, Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD, Dominican Republic
• SAYRAN SHARAFI, Senior Representative in the United States, Women's Union, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, PDKI, Iran
• MIJA JAVORNIK, Project Manager, Central and Eastern European Network for Gender Issues, Slovenia
Article: Ending the War against Women
02 February 2013
On Valentine’s Day, countless couples will celebrate romance by candlelight. On the same day, one billion women and men worldwide will stand up to shine a light on the darker side of gender relations.
According to the United Nations, one in three women worldwide will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. In some countries, up to seven in ten women will be beaten, raped, abused, or mutilated. Often, the victims of such abuses are treated as criminals – dishonored, brutalized, ostracized, imprisoned, and even executed – while perpetrators remain free. Millions of women suffer in this way, but their stories remain untold...
Council Meeting
Lisbon, Portugal, 01 and 02 February 2013
The International Financial Crisis and the Impact on Women
- Programme
- Resolution: The International Financial Crisis and the Impact on Women
- Resolution: Gender-Based Violence in India – A Human Rights Issue
- List of Participants
Statement: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
25 November 2012
A day for the elimination of violence against women first began in 1981 when women activist started commemorating 25 November as the day that three sisters, from the Dominican Republic, were brutally assassinated for their political activism in 1960. It was formally designated the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by the UN General Assembly in 1999. It is a day for governments, international organisations and NGOs to raise awareness of the fact that up to three quarters of women worldwide will still experience violence in their lifetime. UN country data shows the global incidence of physical and sexual violence against women ranges from between 15 and 76 percent of women depending on where they live. Most violence is within intimate relationships, and from 9 to 70 percent of women their husband or partner is the perpetrator...
Executive Meeting
Rabat, Morocco, 02 November 2012