- March 14th, 2011
Women and global citizenship
- nickmorgan
- Comments: noneTags: rights
International Women’s Day 2011 attracted lots of media coverage about celebrations of women’s achievements, and also continues to stimulate our thinking about women’s rights and education.
For example: This year the Global Campaign for Education charity is focused on the inequality of girls finding it harder than boys to get an education in less developed countries; so in 2011 their campaign is called Send My Sister to School. Their website offers ideas for teaching and action, with personal stories, a schools pack, and an introductory video.
The Department for International Development website carried a special feature about IWD 2011, and outlined relevant aspects of DFID policy.
The United Nations launched its new agency UN Women, which brings together key work dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. UN Millennium Development Goal number 5 is ‘Improve Maternal Health’, and some charities have given this Goal a particular focus. Amnesty UK produced a useful briefing on the subject, which complements its other work on Women’s human rights.
We hope that’s useful.
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