By student contributor Emily Isaac
April 22

• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: Women’s safety is a national concern
• ‘Wadjda’ prompts women’s rights talk at Tribeca
• India marked as ‘no country for women’ 
• New study reveals women’s desire for more financial education
• Want more gender equality at work? Go to an emerging market
• Tanzanian Women Bank established to promote gender equity

April 23

• United Nations targets gender equality for urban development
• Chocolatier Mondelez pledges to aid women farmers
• Why immigration reform is a women’s issue
• Gender issues raised on University Grant Commission platform
• Suu Kyi prompts Japan to achieve gender equality

April 24

• UNFPA executive director: Ending child marriage to let girls be girls
  
• Woman died after being refused smear test for being too young
• Verma Committee’s proposal: A judge’s charter for women’s rights

Global Gender News offers a sampling of timely gender-related news. It is is not meant to be a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation of all significant gender-related reports. The George Washington University’s Global Gender Program seeks simply to draw attention to news and information pertaining to gender issues that relate to GGP’s core research areas: health, education, rights and security (HERS) of women and girls worldwide. We seek to increase visibility and access to gender-related news and encourage further exploration on these topics.

By student contributor Emily Isaac
April 18

• Intel and 10×10 partner to empower girls in poverty
• Ghana: Gender activist works with police force to reform GBV victim support unit
• Florida senate to review ban on race-, gender-selective abortions
• Gender diversity boosts company shares
• Study yields surprises in the math and reading gender gap
• Nimrod Mkono: Tanzania’s Bank M achieves gender parity

April 19

• Modeling scouts solicit girls outside of Sweden’s eating disorder clinic
• Germany parliament rejects law requiring gender quota for domestic companies
• In Pakistan, women resist society pressure, outnumber men in medical school
• Women representatives in Trichy district of India share success stories
• Land rights: A priceless asset for women in India
• Founder of Baltimore’s Muslim women’s shelter in need of care

April 20

• China accuses US of discriminating against women
• The importance of debunking myths about gender in Pakistan
• New Delhi: Five more girls brutalized amounts to 393 rapes since January 1
• Doctors call for gender-focused HIV care in Canada
• UNHCR associate outlines procedures for GBV prevention

April 21

• Girls school in Afghanistan hit by poison gas
• Protesting child’s rape in India, dozens of women detained by government police
• Rape after rape: India is no country for minor girls
• Indian PM Manmohan Singh: Women’s status and safety a growing concern
• Kurdish women warriors battle in Syria
• China Women’s Development Foundation and PepsiCo partner to help victims of Sichuan Province earthquake

Global Gender News offers a sampling of timely gender-related news. It is is not meant to be a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation of all significant gender-related reports. The George Washington University’s Global Gender Program seeks simply to draw attention to news and information pertaining to gender issues that relate to GGP’s core research areas: health, education, rights and security (HERS) of women and girls worldwide. We seek to increase visibility and access to gender-related news and encourage further exploration on these topics.

By student contributor Emily Isaac
April 15

• Sir Stirling Moss: Women lack the mental aptitude to compete in F1
• Saudi women cite societal values as impediments to female progress
• Alicia Keys to ignite campaign to educate women about HIV prevention
• UK MPs urge government to monitor abortions to protect unborn girls
• New Zealand: Gender pay imbalances to be examined in important court case
• New Girl Scout research exposes girls’ insecurities in financial decision making, desire to learn

April 16

• Why educating girls is essential
• Why isn’t better education giving women more power?
• Saudi prince: Letting women drive means fewer foreign workers
• Female genital mutilation on decline in Somalia
• India: Minor girl’s ‘marriage’ turns into rape and trafficking terror ordeal
• Pakistan: Taliban bars both girls and boys from schools in protest
• SADC’s Protocol on Gender and Development makes bold commitments for gender equality

April 17

• Update on Kermit Gosnell murder trial over illegal Philadelphia abortion clinic
• NH legislator apologizes for calling women ‘vaginas’ in email to colleagues
• UK women bear the brunt of rise in unemployment
• Interview from South Kivu: Talking about rape trauma as a form of healing
• Germany: Thirty percent gender quota to test Angela Merkel’s party

Global Gender News offers a sampling of timely gender-related news. It is is not meant to be a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation of all significant gender-related reports. The George Washington University’s Global Gender Program seeks simply to draw attention to news and information pertaining to gender issues that relate to GGP’s core research areas: health, education, rights and security (HERS) of women and girls worldwide. We seek to increase visibility and access to gender-related news and encourage further exploration on these topics.

By student contributor Emily Isaac
April 11

• G8 reaches “historic” agreement to end rape as a weapon of war
• Chile’s miners increasingly women
• A call for gender perspective in Cuban justice system
• Elite academy’s school election vote stirs debate on girls as leaders

April 12

• Child marriage on the rise among Syrian refugees
• Saudi’s first female lawyer faces “huge obstacles,” HRW
• At Israel’s Western Wall, women challenge exclusion by Orthodox practices

April 13

• California lawmakers aim to ease abortion rules as some states tighten
• New, popular cell phone app works to protect women against violence
• Ottawa: Girls used Facebook to befriend young victims before forcing into prostitution
• Muslim women fire back at the “Topless Jihad”

April 14

• Once a landlord’s serf, a Pakistani woman enters election fray
• Lawyer: Teen girl’s assault was shared in photos, texts
• Canadian envoy for Tanzania urges youth to support gender parity
• In Ireland, sports further gender equality but more to be done
• Women with elite education likelier to work less

Global Gender News offers a sampling of timely gender-related news. It is is not meant to be a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation of all significant gender-related reports. The George Washington University’s Global Gender Program seeks simply to draw attention to news and information pertaining to gender issues that relate to GGP’s core research areas: health, education, rights and security (HERS) of women and girls worldwide. We seek to increase visibility and access to gender-related news and encourage further exploration on these topics.

By student contributor Emily Isaac
April 8

• Gordon Brown: Girls who risk their lives for education
• Four blind Indian girls allege sexual abuse
• Margaret Thatcher wanted to be known for policies, not gender
• Gender equality and growth in Brazil
• Child protection a low priority in Indonesia

April 9

• Gender in agriculture and the GM crop controversy
• Women artists across India create exhibit, highlight gender issues
• Gender roles and spatial ability: Can training reduce the gender tech gap?
• Most women in Kabul prison charged with ‘moral’ crimes, victims of abusive husbands
• Papua New Guinea witchcraft killing of two women

April 10

• Most rape victims in conflict zones are children: report
• Prostitution policy splits NGOs in top court AIDS case
• Gender equality to remain important goal after MDG deadline of 2015
• Women’s rights activists attacked in Mexico

Global Gender News offers a sampling of timely gender-related news. It is is not meant to be a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation of all significant gender-related reports. The George Washington University’s Global Gender Program seeks simply to draw attention to news and information pertaining to gender issues that relate to GGP’s core research areas: health, education, rights and security (HERS) of women and girls worldwide. We seek to increase visibility and access to gender-related news and encourage further exploration on these topics.

By student contributor Emily Isaac
April 4

• When did ‘sex’ become gender?
• How the education gap’s impact could eliminate the gender pay gap
• Pakistan looks to women to boost voter participation
• Women of the Wall slam new prayer restrictions
• Attacks on women threaten India’s tourism industry
• India’s data on gender discrimination

April 5

• Malala Yousfzai foundation makes first grant to fund girls’ education
• Muslim women send message to Femen
• C0urt ruling lifts age limit on morning-after pill
• More rural Afghan girls now go to school
• Zimbabwe: Gender-based violence still in existence against many women
• Namibia: Gender inequality deeply ingrained in society

April 6

• Kansas lawmakers pass measure banning sex-selective abortions
• Bolivia passes gender violence law
• Tanzania: Gender dimensions in extractive industries vital
• USAID agricultural program to promote gender equality
• Women hit back at India’s rape culture
• Joseph Kony under pressure to free women, become more mobile

April 7

• 13 Tunisian girls offer sex to Syrian extremists
• MPs want constitution to state gender representation
• Photography exhibit explores global gender issues
• Women and children bombed in Afghanistan

Global Gender News offers a sampling of timely gender-related news. It is is not meant to be a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation of all significant gender-related reports. The George Washington University’s Global Gender Program seeks simply to draw attention to news and information pertaining to gender issues that relate to GGP’s core research areas: health, education, rights and security (HERS) of women and girls worldwide. We seek to increase visibility and access to gender-related news and encourage further exploration on these topics.

By student contributor Emily Isaac
April 1

• Training girls for Jihad? Islamic group asks Mumbai Police to apologize for accusation
  
• New study reveals teachers inflate grades for girls to “reward good behavior”
• India tourism ‘hurt’ by attacks on women
• Violence against indigenous women and the twofold challenge
• Hamas law promotes gender segregation in Gaza schools

April 2

• Cambodian housewives protest forced evictions
• Saudi Arabia eases ban on women riding bicycles
• Two Pakistani women ‘break political barriers’ by running for parliament in tribal region
• How shared ‘diaper duty’ could stimulate economy in the US
• Hillary Clinton speaks up for women’s issues at ceremony honoring women leaders
• Press Release: UN Women in Afghanistan strongly condemns “honor killings” of women and girls

April 3

• Syria’s massive rape crisis
• Gender violence, skewed sex ratio discussed at workshop in India
• Pope Francis reminds Catholics of ‘fundamental role of women’
• UN Women applauds new UN Arms Trade Treaty for criteria on GBV
• An in-depth look at the violent New Delhi gang rape 
• Vanity Fair’s special report on Malala Yousafzai

Global Gender News offers a sampling of timely gender-related news. It is is not meant to be a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation of all significant gender-related reports. The George Washington University’s Global Gender Program seeks simply to draw attention to news and information pertaining to gender issues that relate to GGP’s core research areas: health, education, rights and security (HERS) of women and girls worldwide. We seek to increase visibility and access to gender-related news and encourage further exploration on these topics.

By student contributor Emily Isaac
March 28

• In Saudi Arabia, women’s voices are starting to be heard
• UN for accelerated action on women’s rights
• Indian women stand up to husbands who demand sex-selective abortions
• India: Gender justice, interrupted
• Liberia: Gender ministry conducts GBV workshop
• In India’s trains, seeking safety in women’s compartment

March 29

• How Fifty Shades of Feminism came about
• British activists raped in Libya
• China’s first lady set to take center stage
• New pope may modernize gender roles

March 30

• Why women can change the face of technology
• Panama lags in gender equality in politics
• Women in tech fight for tipping point in sexism debate
• Blamed for rapes, women in Egypt are speaking out

March 31

• Boosted health care for women in DRC
• DRC rape doctor in new campaign against violence
• US ambassador urges South Sudan to close gender gap
• The importance of women in planning India’s new rural job scheme

Global Gender News offers a sampling of timely gender-related news. It is is not meant to be a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation of all significant gender-related reports. The George Washington University’s Global Gender Program seeks simply to draw attention to news and information pertaining to gender issues that relate to GGP’s core research areas: health, education, rights and security (HERS) of women and girls worldwide. We seek to increase visibility and access to gender-related news and encourage further exploration on these topics.

By student contributor Emily Isaac
March 25

• Gender violence across the Americas: Two cities, one problem
• New MIT research on widening gender gap in education
• Gender bias in rural non-farming activities for poverty alleviation
• How climate change may effect women in poverty
• Beyond statistics: The bleak state of gender violence in Chile
• How a TV show could save women, babies in Ghana

March 26

• Pakistan girls’ schoolteacher shot dead
• India’s HRD ministry advises states to promote gender sensitivity in curriculum
• Malawi: Gender inclusiveness to bring currents of change in food and water security
• Researchers study female leadership skills

March 27

• Singaporean government pushing women to have more children
• Photo exhibit brings light to Korean “Comfort Women”
• New study finds women less interested in politics than men
• Girls’ teacher killed in Taliban shooting victim ‘Malala-style’ attack

Global Gender News offers a sampling of timely gender-related news. It is is not meant to be a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation of all significant gender-related reports. The George Washington University’s Global Gender Program seeks simply to draw attention to news and information pertaining to gender issues that relate to GGP’s core research areas: health, education, rights and security (HERS) of women and girls worldwide. We seek to increase visibility and access to gender-related news and encourage further exploration on these topics.

By student contributor Emily Isaac

March 21

• Queen Raina: Arab women at a crossroads
• Ending all violence against women and girls
• Tammy Baldwin to lead campaign for more women senators
• Egypt’s Women’s Council criticizes Islamist who reject UN plan to end GBV
• Women in science: Know your limits!
• Female Pakistani squash player Maria Toorpakai breaks gender barriers

March 22

• Taiwan’s improving gender ratio
• Gender wars in the age of Twitter and in the land of the ‘brogrammer’
• Vietnam makes progressive gender development
• Women leaders in business: Why the US is a laggard

March 23

• Growing number of women in India’s police force
• Tanzania: Gender balance required in Constitutional Councils
• Orit Avishai: Young women are ambitious, but worried
• In India, women’s issues are finally out front
• Women violated in cradle of Egypt’s revolution, activists say
• “Leaning in” in Iraq: Women’s rights and war?

March 24

• ‘If girls look sexy, boys will rape’: Is this what Indian men really believe?
• Jerusalem mayor defends gender equality publicly and vocally
• Ford apologizes for ads showing bound, gagged women for Indian campaign

Global Gender News offers a sampling of timely gender-related news. It is is not meant to be a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation of all significant gender-related reports. The George Washington University’s Global Gender Program seeks simply to draw attention to news and information pertaining to gender issues that relate to GGP’s core research areas: health, education, rights and security (HERS) of women and girls worldwide. We seek to increase visibility and access to gender-related news and encourage further exploration on these topics.