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Colombian anti-groping squad goes to work
A special squad of undercover agents is set to clamp down on sexual harassment on Bogota’s public bus network.
In a survey conducted a couple of years ago, six out of every 10 women in Bogota said they had been sexually harassed at least once on the city’s overcrowded buses.
“We haven’t been receiving as many reports of groping and other abuses as when we first started.”
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28925622
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The voices of women as experts, survivors and negotiators have been included in a peace process with an unprecedented gender perspective, with the support of UN Women and other partners.
- See more at: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/5/women-build-peace-in-colombia#sthash.NPu46jVf.dpuf
Photo: This woman shagrera – who uses ancestral forms of agricultural production – is one of many beneficiaries of a UN Women project to promote economic empowerment, which is key to building peace at local level. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
The DART in Africa?
The Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit is a bus system currently under construction in Tanzania’s largest city.
It joins other African cities with dedicated bus lanes, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Kampala and Lagos.
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Community police help stop Ebola in Guinea.
As Guinea looks towards recovery from the Ebola epidemic, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is training hundreds of community police officers to help keep case numbers down and prevent future outbreaks.
Photo: Community police officers listen to a resident in Matoto, Guinea. Photo credits UNDP
Education helps women escape slavery and human trafficking.
UN Women, the United Nations’ organisation working for gender equality, is supporting women of the Nat Caste of Rajasthan, India.
In this photo, educator Vijaylakshmi explains the combination of Hindi alphabets to Sunita Chchadi.
Initially, the women attending lessons started meeting for half-an-hour a day, but later they wanted to stay on for an hour or two at the Non-Formal Education (NFE) centre. “Now they even want to come during the weekends,” she says.
The Nat are a nomadic community in Northern India, which traditionally have sold women into slavery and bonded labour. At this education centre, supported by UN Women and the Jaipur-based NGO CECOEDECON, women can upskill themselves to escape the grinding poverty that fuels the human trafficking.
Photo: UN Women/Shaista Chishty
For the past 35 years, the crowds at football games - Iran’s most popular sport - have been all male.
But Iranian women have continued to demand equality.
Earlier this month, several Iranian women snuck into a men’s volleyball match in Tehran disguised as Brazilian fans, and many women followed the soccer World Cup in cafés.
Khabar Lahariya is a women-run rural weekly newspaper produced in local languages in the Indian states of Utter Pradesh and Bihar. The paper is distributed to 80,000 readers across 600 villages.
Read more: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/06/26/khabar-lahariya-india-rural-women
Photo credit: Poorvi Bhargava
Follow Khabar Lahariya’s online (http://khabarlahariya.org), and stay up to date with their work on Facebook (www.facebook.com/khabarlahariya) and Twitter (@KabarLahariya).
International Women’s Day: The number of female lawmakers has doubled in the past 20 years.
The global average of women in parliament has increased from 11.3% in 1995 to 22.1% in 2015, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
Rwanda came top of the most recent rankings with 63.8% female lawmakers, while 13 countries registered 40% or more women in the lower or single houses of parliament.
Nicaragua is a land of enterprising women entrepreneurs.
62%, or nearly 2 out of 3, of the country’s companies are owned entirely by women – putting Nicaragua in 7th place on a list of 135 countries where the World Bank has carried out studies of a total of 130,000 companies.
The World Bank found that, in the past 50 years women’s legal status has improved all over the world.
But many laws still make it difficult for women to fully participate in economic life. Discriminatory rules bar women from certain jobs, restrict access to capital for women-owned firms and limit women’s capacity to make legal decisions. Gender differences in laws affect both developing and developed economies, and women in all regions.
According to the World Bank, however, over the past 50 years, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean have brought in meaningful reforms, making it easier for women to access State institutions and owning property.
Read more: http://wbl.worldbank.org/~/media/FPDKM/WBL/Documents/Reports/2014/Women-Business-and-the-Law-2014-Key-Findings.pdf
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Meet Myanmar’s first female rap duo, Thazin Nyunt Aung and Aye Aye Aung. They are known as Y.A.K. and play in small clubs and cultural events around the country rapping about their culture’s ideas of femininity.
They focus on writing songs that elevate the status of women, and hope their music will gain wider acceptance as the country flourishes and changes under its new democratic leadership after decades of military rule.
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Amputee’s affordable prosthetics wins 2015 Youth Innovation Award.
“The thought of seeing colleague’s amputees in that state of neglect motivated me to look for a solution using local materials to create artificial limbs. The cost of my artificial limbs is 10 times cheaper than the imported ones and is just as durable as the imported ones,” says Archippus Sesay from Sierra Leone, and winner of the 2015 Youth Innovation Award.