How can we measure progress on government commitments to positive change for HIV positive women? Fed up with being approached by researchers but never seeing the results, HIV positive women in Lesotho and Swaziland devised a tool that they themselves could use with other HIV positive women to monitor access to care, treatment and support (ACTS); sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); and violence against women (VAW).

Nasrin Sotoudeh, a well known activist in women’s movement and a brave lawyer for most of the women’s movement activists, well before she became well known for her activities in human rights for children and in particular against the hanging of children under the age of 18, and women’s movement in particular the campaign for one million signatures.

Translated by : Karineh Kanants
September 24, 2008

The article follows the evolution of norms and policies related to reproductive health and rights in the United Nations from the first decades after World War II to 2007. The focus is on the policymaking processes related to the large world conferences, particularly on population and women during the 1970s, 80s and 90s and the follow-up meetings around and after the turn of the century.

Around the globe, young women are mobilizing, making their voices heard, and changing the world. Learn about the women at the forefront of this movement and share your vision for change.

This publication points out the vital nexus between women’s experiences of natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and how they can come together to make whole communities strong and sustainable.

2008 World AIDS Day materials are now available online. You can download 2008 World AIDS Day posters and postcards, as well as view images, videos and other tools relating to World AIDS Day.

Progress of the World’s Women is UNIFEM’s biennial investigation of progress made towards a world where women live free from violence, poverty and inequality. Provocative and insightful, this series is the product of multi-year processes that bring together leading practitioners and academics to undertake thorough research and in-depth analyses.

This report demonstrates the failure of the World Bank-administered Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDF) for Indonesia’s tsunami and earthquake reconstruction to systematically address gender concerns in the design of its projects.