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External sources (not reviewed)

Nations study on the response of the education sector to HIV and AIDS in Ghana.

keynote speeches by the President of Liberia, ministers from Bahrain, Paraguay, Pakistan and Nigeria, as well as artistic exhibitions and performances) and likewise on 8 March 2007 focusing on women peacemakers.

in peace-making and women in political decision-making.

activities under the theme “Equal access to education, training, science and technology: the pathway to decent work for women”, which included marches, drama, a sensitization campaign about female genital mutilation, a career day for girls about to finish secondary school, skits on girls’ education and exhibitions on tertiary institutions.

by the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) with support from UNESCO was launched.

Minister issued a joint statement announcing their intention to work towards signing the Council of Europe’s Convention on Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence.

in May 2011, on use of the gender marker in the food security cluster to improve beneficiary targeting and gender equality outcomes; 40 staff members from FAO, WFP and the global food security cluster attended.

of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women related to peace, security and disarmament issues was read out by Ms. Beatrice Fihn on behalf of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom at the 1177th plenary meeting, on 9 March 2010 (CD/PV.1177).

by unwaged and low-waged mothers.

and parliamentary librarians, and members of the Canadian Senate and House of Commons.

Day in Port Louis; (d) seminar on the environment held in June in Port Louis; (e) delegation headed by the General Secretary participated in the consultation meeting of the Southern African Development Community Youth Union held in Cape Town, South Africa, in July; (f) organized symposium on family welfare, domestic violence and gender issues in August in Montagne Blanche, Mauritius; (g) talk on literacy in September in Port Louis; (h) workshop on HIV/AIDS, human values and stress management in September in Rose Hill, Mauritius; (i) seminar on domestic violence, family welfare, gender issues and stress management in November in Trou d’eau Douce, Mauritius; (j) seminar on human rights held in December in Port Louis.

against women was organized at Headquarters in collaboration with the American University of Paris, and an NGO forum presenting NGO activities for women and girls was held.

organized by the Asian Development Bank.

Practices for Gender Perspective in Media and in Media Content” on the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March).

enshrined in the United Nations Charter in 1945, and targeted as specific Millennium Development Goal (MDG 3) in 2000, it still remains an aspiration rather than the reality in too many areas of public and private life.

to promote the UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.

pioneers who made them possible-and we reaffirm our unwavering support for the rights, security, dignity and opportunity of all women around the world.

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Peru, Rwanda and Tunisia; World Refugee Day in Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland; and International Youth Day in Kosovo and the United Republic of Tanzania.

and Family and women’s organizations in conducting awareness campaigns in secondary schools and organizing a workshop on investigation techniques and the production of radio programmes on violence against women.