This event (23 November 2005) will explore the challenges facing those seeking to promote greater gender equality and set out the next steps to enable men and women to work together on the issues facing society as a whole.
Continue reading Sex equality fit for the 21st Century: a keynote speech by Jenny Watson, Acting Chair, EOC
The new Government of Albania has improved the legal framework necessary to reduce the flow of trafficked children, but it must develop a national child protection system aimed at combating the poverty that drives exploitation, a United Nations human rights expert said after completing his visit to the Balkan country yesterday.
Continue reading UN expert fighting sex trafficking calls for child protection system in Albania
Stephen Lewis, the United Nations Secretary-General's special envoy to Africa for HIV/AIDS, has been an outspoken critic of the United States administration as well as a number of Western and African governments. He has also condemned the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for their failure to alleviate the AIDS pandemic in Africa. His views on HIV/AIDS can now be read in his new book, 'Race Against Time,' which has just been launched. In this extract from the new book, Lewis criticises the way women have been left out of the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, and blasts the governments that often applaud themselves for their "gender sensitivity."
Continue reading How the other half dies
