Posts Tagged ‘women’
Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress
Join us today International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2024, as we celebrate under the theme “Invest in women: Accelerate progress.” ACRATH’s President, Clare Condon, reminds us that “Women’s rights are human rights. In our Western society, one simple way to change behaviour is our need to constantly review our purchasing habits and refuse to purchase…
Read MoreCelebrating Women Leaders
During ACRATH’s well attended Zoom Breakfast Celebrating Women Leaders participants heard from Sr Clare Condon sgs, President of ACRATH, and ACRATH member Sr Elizabeth Young rsm. Both women spoke frankly about the recent Plenary Council of the Australian Catholic Church. They gave expression to the gender and power imbalance that currenty exists in the Church…
Read MoreMarch Awareness Raising
International Women’s Day is celebrate each year on 8th March. The 2021 theme is Choose to Challenge. A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change. So let’s all choose to challenge by celebrating women’s achievement, raising awareness against bias and taking action for equality. The March page of the ACRATH 2021 Calendar…
Read MoreCall to Address Root Causes
CEDAW (Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination of Against Women) has called on governments to pursue all appropriate means to eliminate trafficking in women and girls, highlighting the increasing use of social media to recruit trafficking victims during the COVID-19 pandemic. In its General Recommendation NO 38 CEDAW reports that women and girls still account…
Read More#TimeisNow
International Women’s Day 2018 Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. In his message for International Women’s Day 2018 UN Secretary General, António Guterres, states “Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is the unfinished business of our time, and the greatest human…
Read MoreWomen Thrive SDG5 Toolbox
Achieve Gender Equality and Empower Women and Girls The 17 Sustainable Development Goals includes one goal on gender equality. Goal 5 – Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls – has nine targets, one of which aims to “eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and…
Read MoreLeave No One Behind
End Violence Against Women The International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women is celebrated each year on 25th November. The theme of this day for 2017 is Leave No One Behind: End Violence Against Women and Children. In a recent report on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, stated: “Gender…
Read More#BeBoldForChange
International Women’s Day 2017 The theme for International Women’s Day in 2017 is #BeBoldForChange. This day invites us to celebrate the achievements of women and to be bold in taking steps to promote gender parity. Did you know that according to the UNODC 2016 Global Trafficking in Person Report 71% of all trafficking victims are…
Read MoreVoices of Women – I Don’t
Forced Marriage in Australia Despite being illegal, forced marriage is practiced in Australia. As a community we are starting to understand both the nature and extent of forced marriage in our community. Voices of Women – I Don’t is a film clip released by the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY). CMY is a Victorian not-for-profit organisation…
Read MorePlanet 50-50 by 2030: Step it Up for Gender Equality
International Women’s Day 2016 The 2016 theme for International Women’s Day is “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality”. The United Nations observance on 8 March will reflect on how to accelerate the 2030 Agenda, building momentum for the effective implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals. It will equally focus on…
Read MoreForced Marriage from a Gender Perspective
Report on Forced Marriage in the EU Forced marriage from a gender perspective is a report giving an overview of the practice of forced marriage in the EU from a gender equality and women’s rights perspective. It analyses the definitions of forced marriage and puts forward a definition from a gender perspective. It also provides an…
Read MoreInternational Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women
White Ribbon Day 2015 Women’s activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961). In 1999 the United Nations called on all governments, organisations and…
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