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Millions of people worldwide are working to improve gender equality -- and WomenWatch is tracking every effort.
WomenWatch is a real-time news feed covering women's rights. Created by the United Nations, it can help you track the progress toward gender equality -- and discover the obstacles we still face.
This week, your mission is to join the WomenWatch: Find a story that inspires you, and create your own follow-up investigation.
First: Choose a story from the WomenWatch news feed.
Then: Make the story bigger. What updates about this newsworthy event or project can you uncover? Can you reach someone from the story for an interview? Or can you find any similar project or news events that you think should become a part of this story?
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I learned that The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights barely even knew about how women are treated so badly in Indonesia.
Navi Pillay told reporters that on Monday she met with a group of women victims of violence who explained the discrimination they have faced in Indonesia which was violent and horrible. This influenced me because she stood up for what she believed in dealing with discrimination.
In many refugee camps in Syria women have to adapt to a refugee lifestyle. They adapt by doing work provided by the UNFPA,
An Indonesian women went from a poor area to a sucessful women by never giving up. In fact, she help her wh*** village by producing milk.
According to one article, "The United Nations Development Programme in partnership with the Huairou Commission launched a new gender-themed publication at the 15th biennial International Anti-Corruption Conference, a global forum organized by Transparency International together with partners, including UNDP, which is being held this week in Brasilia, Brazil from November 7th to 10th."
It shows the opinions of women on corruption and ways we can prevent it, allowing an in-depth and significant first-hand view of what corruption causes. Then we can start preventing corruption.
Women are kept in refugee camps, yet still are kept busy with UNFPA's work. They work with the women in Syria to give them activities to do in their everyday lives.
In syria women are trying to cope with the refugee life. They are doing so by engaging in activities created by the UNFPA. It is a way to learn new stuff and keep the women occupied while being in the situation they are in.
Reports say that with a female in a boardroom meetining or being the CEO helps. The business goes farther and longer than companies with all male boardrooms. But only 15% of companies have women in thier boardrooms. to put women in there is the bright and right thing to do.
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Investigating about empowering women I found a lot of 'examples' around the world which affect physicality of women. For me it is really detesting and cruel to force women and unfortunately also children into sexual acts.
I am particularly saddened by the atrocities Haitian women often have to endure. After the earthquake in 2010, the situation for the inhabitants especially for women was inhumane and degrading. There was no security in the displacement camps. There was no food; there was no work. And now there is a rampant problem. Over months and months, it increases all forms of violence, including sexual violence. This natural disaster was for many people the trigger to a drastically way of life.
"Victims became more vulnerable due to a range of things," said Brian Concannon Jr., director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti. "They lost their houses; there were no locked doors anymore. People lost family members who were a source of protection."
One women who has made it her task to fight against sexual violence currently faced by women and children is Malya Villard-Appolon. She is the co-founder of KOFAVIV in Haiti.
KOFAVIV works to confront sexual violence and exploitation in Haiti, while providing rape survivors with social and psychological support and vital health services. The group has 66 female outreach agents and 25 male security guards who work within the camps, organizing nighttime community watch groups and providing whistles and flashlights to women. All of them have been affected by gender-based violence, whether personally or through a family member or loved one.
Malya's commitment to women’s empowerment is rooted in the steps she took to convert her own pain into healing. She survived brutal rape during Haiti’s years of political violence. She met many women who shared frighteningly similar stories. But these women shared more than stories of suffering. Together, they were resilient, bold and fiercely committed to upholding women's rights. So Malya decided to set up an organization to address the medical and psychological needs of rape survivors.
Even before the quake, she says, rape was an issue in Haiti, historically underreported because of social stigma, retaliation from perpetrators and a lack of legal support. That is what led her and Marie Eramithe Delva to start KOFAVIV in 2004. Since the group's inception, it has helped more than 4,000 rape survivors find safety, psychological support and/or legal aid.
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