This video showcases UNIFEM’s work on gender-responsive budgeting (GRB). The film is set in Mysore, India, where an elected woman representative used the skills gained from a UNIFEM-supported GRB training to facilitate dialogue between women and municipal government and mobilize women to articulate their priorities and demand action from local leaders. As a result, budget [...]
Entries from July 2007
UNIFEM in India
July 31st, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: gender roles and division of labour · leadership
Good news
July 31st, 2007 · No Comments
India’s National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) revised its estimate of the number of Indians infected with HIV from 5.2m to 2.5m. But look at West Bengal, where only 0.3% of people are HIV positive, but over 6% of the state’s prostitutes. Most money given by donors will go to prevention and not relatively for [...]
Tags: sex and sexuality
She’s in the news again
July 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Renuka Chowdhury is requesting that female army officers be allowed to do combat duty. She also makes a good point that women officers’ service commission can only last a maximum of 14 years, thus making them ineligible for pension.
Her point is that since technology stands in for brute force nowadays, why keep women out of [...]
Tags: Renuka Chowdhury · politics
Another side to the Bedi story
July 30th, 2007 · No Comments
I can’t really comment on her questionable behaviour because I have no idea about her history and it seems like this writer has done his research. I would like to say that maybe her problems were due in part to the troubles she faced as a woman in the IPS, but I don’t know enough.
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Tags: gender bias · leadership
Who’s helping the domestic help?
July 30th, 2007 · No Comments
‘We need to change our feudal mindset and treat those in whose hands we leave our homes and children with a modicum of compassion.’ Click here for the article.
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