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 · View Comments
Tags: gender roles and division of labour · leadership
Good news
July 31st, 2007 · View 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 · View 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 · View 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 · View 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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