Nov 27th, 2009
By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli
ROME, Nov 26 (IPS) – “You don’t need to go far, it is all around us,” said Robert Dijksterhuis, head of the gender division in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to a room mostly full of women. “Up to one in three women around the world has been abused [...]
There Is A Sense Of Vindication – Gender-South Africa
Miren Gutierrez* interviews THENJIWE MTINTSO, Ambassador of South Africa to Italy
ROME, Nov 26 (IPS) – Born in a squatter camp in Orlando East and raised by a single mother; working in a factory while completing secondary school by correspondence; arrested and banned by the apartheid government: South [...]
Nov 25th, 2009
As in previous years, I was invited to teach at University of Navarra as Guest Professor last month. As part of the International Media Programme, I spoke about the crisis in the media sector, the coverage of the war in Iraq, propaganda and gender. The International Media Programme is part of a one academic year [...]
Miren Gutierrez* interviews LOUISE DOUGHTY, novelist and critic
Louise Doughty signing her book at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2008.
Credit:Tim Duncan
ROME, Nov 25 (IPS) – The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 102 times to 106 Nobel laureates between 1901 and 2009. Only 10 of those winners were women. Meanwhile, the Man Booker Prize has [...]
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Miren Gutierrez* interviews INES ALBERDI, executive director of UNIFEM
Security Council debates protection of civilians – and women – in armed conflict.
Credit:U.N.
ROME, Nov 15 (IPS) – CEDAW or the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1979.On its 30th anniversary, just seven [...]
Miren Gutierrez* interviews INES ALBERDI, executive director of UNIFEM
Ines Alberdi: “CEDAW is the means by which governments (can) advance gender equality”
Credit:U.N.
ROME, Nov 15 (IPS) – The fight for women’s rights came about hand in hand with the struggle for democracy, civil rights and national liberation in different countries and periods, says Ines Alberdi, executive director [...]
Oct 21st, 2009
Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli interview IVANKA CORTI, former president of the CEDAW Committee
ROME, Oct 21 (IPS) – On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Italy is far from attaining gender equality.
“I think that something is changing…however, the Convention is still [...]