Articles about Ban Ki Moon
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Global: South Africa to co-sponsor first-ever inter-governmental debate on violence and discrimination against LGBTI
09 March 12
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold the first-ever formal inter-governmental debate on violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people on 7 March in Geneva between 12:00 and 15:00 (Geneva time). It will be webcast live at www.un.org/webcast. [read more]
Editor's note
13 December 11
By Saeanna Chingamuka
Welcome to Issue 23 of the Diversity Exchange, the last for the year 2011! The buzz- word during November and parts of December has been COP 17. The global climate change conference ran from 28 November to 9 December. Researchers, activists, ministers youth, faith based organisations... [read more]
Welcome to Issue 23 of the Diversity Exchange, the last for the year 2011! The buzz- word during November and parts of December has been COP 17. The global climate change conference ran from 28 November to 9 December. Researchers, activists, ministers youth, faith based organisations... [read more]
IFJ denounces extreme levels of violence faced by women journalists worldwide
13 December 11
In a letter addressed to UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon to mark the International Day of Violence Against Women on 25 November, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) highlighted the high levels of violence women journalists face while carrying out their professional duties. [read more]
Taking stock of Action Plans to End Gender Based Violence in SADC:
03 March 11
There are only four years to go before the 2015 deadline to meet extensive GBV targets in the SADC Gender Protocol including the target to reduce current levels of GBV by 50%, Seychelles has a strong GBV National Plan, and has made remarkable progress over the year, not just in having a National Plan to end GBV, but... [read more]
Taking stock of National Action Plans to end GBV
01 February 11
With the support of the UN Trust Fund, Gender Links in partnership with the Network on Violence Against Women that coordinates the GBV cluster in the Alliance will hold an evaluative meeting of national action plans to end gender-based violence from 15-17 February. The meeting will be followed by a meeting to... [read more]
Gender quotas go to Davos!
01 February 11
Each year, prime ministers, bankers, business tycoons and other movers and shakers of the global elite gather at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos. And each year, one key thing has been missing: women.
Now, in an attempt to improve the traditionally dismal gender balance at this year's... [read more]
UN calls on corporate sector to help eliminate violence against women
06 December 10
The corporate sector must engage more closely in the fight against the global pandemic of violence against women and girls, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an address at to mark the International Day of No Violence Against Women on 25 November.
"Today is a call to action - action to eliminate Violence... [read more]
Time to go back to the streets
04 March 10
Regional relevance: South Africa
Sitting in my office in Johannesburg reading the newspaper daily paper published for the Beijing+15 Review at the Conference on the Status of Women in New York, I feel a sense of discomfort, a sense of a world going wrong. [read more]
Women around the world reflect on a centenary of struggle
08 March 09
Regional relevance: International
New York, 8 March: Women around the world today observe International Women’s Day (IWD) under the banner “women and men unite to end violence against women and girls.” For American women, this marked the 100th anniversary of the first national observance of women’s day in 1909. That followed a year of... [read more]
Support women to put food on the table
30 April 08
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
The alarming increases in food prices are devastating to societies’ most vulnerable populations. United Nations (UN) Secretary General-Ban Ki-moon recently noted, "This steeply rising price of food - it has developed into a real global crisis.” The World Bank estimates that food prices have risen by 83 percent... [read more]
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