Gender Policies

In 1988, five women journalists wanted to go beyond simply producing feminist monthly supplements. They were determined to put the realities of women’s lives onto the front page, and get gender relations taken into account everywhere in the male-dominated country of Mexico.

Human rights violations against women differ from those against men. Realizing that means we can offer more sophisticated responses to the different requirements for protection that women and men citizens will have. The institutionalization of gender mainstreaming in Mexico City’s Federal District Human Rights Commission, the CDHDF, is thus a very important project.

 Under the government of Dr. Hector Silva, the mayor of San Salvador, in 1999 the city council resolved a roadmap for achieving sexual equality. Although a series of measures was adopted and women were appointed to leading political roles, progress was painfully slow.

Indeed, women's sport is generally, at best, ignored in Pakistan, but 2010 proved to be a phenomenal year for the female cricket team of the country. At the Asia Games taken place in November 2010 in Guangzhou/China, the young women in their bright green jerseys won the gold medal for Pakistan. 

Wanda Nowicka, a Head of the Federation on Women and Family Planning, in a Interview on pregnancy abortion in Poland, why the Polish Government restricted abortions and why Polish didn't resist and which follow-up this policy had.

Sylwia Chutnik, a polish feminist writer, explains in this interview why polish feminists started to get involved with the topic of motherhood, what it means to be a mother in Poland, she discusses the problems connected with the existing images of motherhood extremes in poland and how the situation changed in the last 20 years.

This film deals with the pakistani farmers movement, which began in 2000 in ten districts of the province Punjab. The film further looks at the important role women played during the protests.

100 years ago the emergence of International Women’s day, and its importance in the political history of the time, reflected women’s determination to gain rights for themselves. But how is the situation of women today? Heather Hurlburt on women and politics in the United States of America. And the question of whether women make a difference.

In the film "The Swollen Rivers", the attention is drawn in particular on the gender-specific aspects of the various problems the population had to deal with. Due to traditional patterns of conduct and role models in the Pakistani society, women were and still are especially affected by the events.

About Women Rights Activists/Groups, Women in US Political decision-making bodies in the US, First Women on the national level, Legislative Efforts for Women and Economics facts on Women in the US.