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Comment by Lily Davis on November 14, 2012 at 10:44pm

I learned that The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights barely even knew about how women are treated so badly in Indonesia.

Comment by Kennedy Suttle on November 14, 2012 at 3:22am

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.

Comment by Charles Schwartz on November 14, 2012 at 1:45am

In many refugee camps in Syria women have to adapt to a refugee lifestyle. They adapt by doing work provided by the UNFPA,

Comment by Christian Sutton on November 13, 2012 at 11:14pm

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.

Comment by Zeba Huque on November 13, 2012 at 2:04am

There are these camps where there are opportunities for women to feel better during camp life. They receive family planning/training, handicrafts,and more. They are even setting up a bazaar next month. UNFPA helps women in refugee camps to feel fetter and to cope with camp life.

Comment by Hannah Rose Fountain on November 13, 2012 at 1:00am

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.

Comment by Julia Sherrill on November 13, 2012 at 12:57am

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.

Comment by Harris Cohen on November 12, 2012 at 11:43pm

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.

Comment by Christpher Sprung on November 12, 2012 at 11:11pm

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.

Comment by Claudia Siatkowski on June 1, 2012 at 4:00pm

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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.

Comment by Katrine Hoff on May 16, 2011 at 3:45pm

This is an example of a video promoting the right of woman in Irak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k1gu2xjkmI

Comment by Chengyuan High School on May 19, 2010 at 3:01pm

"I see my death… but no one cares"It's the majority of the women's sound in developing countries.Even in the developed countries,the women don't have the same right like the men.We hope the news of this type of things will less and less.

Comment by richard gonzalez on May 12, 2010 at 2:15am

i been aware of everything going on in Afghanistan with the war, and the killings but after reading a blog about how AFGHANISTAN: Ranna Tareen, "I see my death… but no one cares" this really opened my eyes because she was getting death threats daily and sometimes some people where coming to her office and giving her threats to her face all becuase of her job. thats just wrong and not fair.

Comment by Thys van der Veer on May 8, 2010 at 1:08pm

@Veva; These concerns are mine too. I hope Isabel Allende empowers you a little bit. http://www.ted.com/talks/isabel_allende_tells_tales_of_passion.html

Comment by Veva Anderson on May 2, 2010 at 1:54am

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I have been aware of the different civil wars going on in Africa and the physical and sexual violence women were faced with. Now people have been taking a stand in these countries like Uganda to reinforece police control and punish those who rape and sexually victimize women. I'm glad that this is taking place as well as getting help through the peacemakers for no woman should have to go through the pain and humiliation of sexual violence.

Comment by Ugn Brnrd on April 28, 2010 at 10:59pm

The Empowering Women story that i am following is Afghan women prisoners and raising their children in the first female-only prison in Kabul. 100s of Women prisoners have to bring their children to prison. They say the children are stressed most of the time and are not taught manners. Its difficult to take care of children in prison. If you you have family at home, it is better to keep them with family. They live amongst convicted killers. women spend their days sewing and embroidering, and they learn computer skills. One of the ladies was wrongly accused of murder but is spending time in prision, and is not sure what the future holds for her daughter. If she is released her daughter will be with her, but if she is not released her daughter will be sent to an orphanage.
hearing this i am torn between whether i am for or against the children going to prison with their mother. On one aspect i am for the chirldren going to prison with the parent just because they wouldnt be seperated. On the other hand, the children did not commit the crime, and should not have to be raised in those conditions.

Comment by Bayan Waleed Shadaideh on April 26, 2010 at 9:54pm

http://www.ted.com/talks/kavita_ramdas_radical_women_embracing_trad...

Comment by Bayan Waleed Shadaideh on April 26, 2010 at 9:54pm

Kavita Ramdas: Radical women, embracing tradition.... by TED....amazing and most inspiring!
Investing in women can unlock infinite potential around the globe. But how can women walk the line between Western-style empowerment and traditional culture? Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women talks about three encounters with powerful women who fight to make the world better -- while preserving the traditions that sustain them.

Comment by Laleh Rafiei on April 25, 2010 at 12:10am

The UNICEF supported program in Benin, calld 'Big' Sistering' was very inspiring. The program is about using a system where older children in the community take the younger children to school and thus act as a monitoring system to ensure girls go to school.

Comment by Luke Sokolewicz on April 17, 2010 at 2:19pm

We are an Experiment.

As you may know, the mission for last week was to find a story on WomenWatch and make the story bigger. I found a story that was about a new social network created by In-Straw, an organization created by the United Nations for the purpose of research and training individuals to help achieve gender equality for women.

I was intrigued by the story because I’m really interested in the growing relevance of social networking in our everyday lives. And when I visited In-Straw’s social network, something really stood out to me. I saw that various experts on gender equality would regularly post questions and encourage discussion on the site.

This got me thinking about how EVOKE is functioning in the same way. It’s also a social network created solely to rouse the troops for solutions. And coincidentally, In-Straw is an organization started by the United Nations and EVOKE is funded by the World Bank, which is also technically a part of the system of the United Nations.

Think about it. A global organization looking to social networks (us) to solve the world’s problems. So, to me, the bigger story stemming from In-Straw is that social networks are increasingly playing a major role in solving the world’s problems and we are the guinea pigs that are going to make it happen. Having said that, I have an idea on how the In-Straw social network could become more successful.

What if the representatives of In-Straw recruited women from Saudi Arabia and other women that are experiencing harsh inequality around the world to join the In-Straw social network. That way, they can offer up their perspectives and even lead the discussions in order to further the cause of gender equality.

Please let me know what you think of the idea, and share your thoughts on how this idea could be improved. After, I’ll submit all the ideas to In-Straw's to help improve their social network. Hey, then WE’LL be part of the bigger story.

Here’s the link to Instraw.org.
http://www.un-instraw.org/

And if you have 19 more mins, check out this fascinating PopTech Video about the power of social networks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnS5yIXcFuA

thanks for reading my post!

Luke

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