Women Won’t Wait campaign and other groups welcomed the announcement in arly May 2010, that PEPFAR has committed $US 30 million to scale up gender based violence prevention and response efforts in three countries. The announcement is a positive step in PEPFAR’s overall commitment to increase its focus on the unique risk factors faced by women and girls.
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As we continue to expand our understanding the context and the challenges for women’s rights globally, it is as important to acknowledge that women’s groups and networks at the global, regional and national levels have played an important role in advancing the agenda for women’s rights. As a result of our collective tireless campaigning, education and efforts, there is now a widespread understanding of gender inequality, empowerment of women and girls and the nature of human rights abuses as well as what will be needed to transform our societies.
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Welcome to this edition of this newsletter. As the world around us continue to shift, our targets and the focus of our activism shifts. At the same time, it is also important for us to take stock of our achievements whilst still bearing in mind that achieving our aims of human rights for all, i.e. social justice will require all our ingenuity, creativity and energies. In this issue we take stock of the current moment, celebrate the increase of PEPFAR's commitment to gender based violence responses and also condemn the sentencing of Malawi gay couple. In solidarity, Women WON'T wait coalition. (www.womenwontwait.org)
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In the 21st century it may seem ludricrous to even consider the
possibility of an increase in violence against women. The fact that we
have come so far in terms of creating really good legislation, has not
necessarily resulted in the scale of impact envisaged. In most
countries, on any given day newspaper headlines alerts us to the
reality that women still face attacks on their bodies on a daily
basis.
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As pointed out by many experts and organizations, the economic crisis
will have serious consequences for women. More significantly, the
crisis will hamper progress made so far in achieving gender equality.
Even though the global financial crisis is still unfolding, and it is
too early to anticipate its full social implications, the crisis seems
likely to affect women in such areas as employment and social safety
networks, unpaid care work, health, education, migration, and also in
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In September 2009, the United Nations General Assembly finally adopted a resolution that will enable the creation of the new United Nations gender entity. This following three years of campaigning by the civil society led initiative entitled the Gender Equality Architecture Reform Campaign (GEAR)m . Women’s rights organizations and allies from around the world have been advocating for three years for a stronger better resourced agency on gender equality and women’s empowerment rather than the current fragmented state of work on women’s rights.
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On 14 October 2009 a bill entitled the 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill' was
tabled before the Ugandan parliament titled the . The bill is aimed at
increasing and expanding penalties for 'homosexual acts' and for all
institutions (including NGOs, donors and private companies) who defend
the rights of people who engage in sexual relations with people of the
same gender.
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