'Making the health and rights of women a global priority is not only the right thing to do, it is smart economics,” write Thoraya Ahmed Obaid and Theresa Shaver. ' The neighbour heard Husan Pari’s screams and went to help her. She was about to deliver her baby. A traditional birth attendant tried her best, but the baby just would not emerge. The birth attendant refused to help anymore. She said to take Husan Pari to the nearby hospital. On the way there, Husan Pari turned blue and became unc more...
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ACCRA, Sep 4 (IPS) - As the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness drew to a close in the Ghanaian capital, gender activists reflected on the way ahead. Having successfully raised the visibility of gender equality and women's empowerment on the Accra Agenda, attention is now turning to the International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus in Doha, Qatar in November and the women are preparing to take forward their successes.
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The international debate on effective aid that is shaped by developing countries' needs rather than donors' priorities was resumed when ministers from over 100 countries, and members of development agencies, donor organisations and civil society gathered for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra Sep. 2-4. The Accra Forum reviewed progress in implementation of the 2005 Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness, and agreed on a new agenda to increase effectiveness of global develo more...
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The Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), a coalition of women’s groups, held a forum for international women’s organisations in Accra, leading up to the High Level Forum. Birte Rodenberg, Policy Advisor of Action Against Aids in Germany, who participated in the forum, spoke to IPS (Terra Viva).
IPS: Coming from a developed country, what does effective aid mean to you?
BR: I am a taxpayer and want to know that the money my country gives out as aid goes to the poor it was m more...
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Prativa Rana, a Nepalese MP from the National Democratic Party, has travelled a long way to be at the Accra forum. With the constitution of the Himalayan kingdom at the drafting stage, Rana hopes that the ideas generated at the forum will help Nepal along the path to greater democracy.
IPS (Terra Viva) Why are you attending the Third High Level Forum?
Prativa Rana: I am the only Asian MP at the High Level Forum. Being a parliamentarian, I thought I needed to be here as it is a very important more...
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Ines Alberdi has worked for over 25 years on gender issues and in politics. She comes to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) from her previous position as professor of sociology at Madrid University where she has taught political sociology and sociology of gender since 1993. Prior to that, she was director for research at the Centre for Sociological Research. Her main interest has been gender-based violence. Alberdi spoke to IPS ( Terra Viva) about the role of UNIFEM.
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Neglecting to provide for treatment for post-traumatic stress disorders can lead to new cycles of violence, says Joanne Sandler, Deputy Director of UNIFEM. In post conflict settings, where new constitutions are agreed upon, national development plans and budgets drawn up, new laws adopted and institutions rebuilt, there is often a unique window of opportunity to advance women’s rights and gender-equality.
At the same time, because conflict generally brings about changes in existing gender rel more...
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