The First Peoples Child & Family Review is a new, online journal, published jointly by the First Nations Research Site, Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare, and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. This e-journal focuses primarily on First Nations and Aboriginal child welfare practices, policies, and research. It is a journal that privileges the "voice and perspectives" of First Nations and Aboriginal child welfare scholars, researchers, practitioners, trainers, studen more...

The NNIWLS is a National Peak Body for Indigenous Women’s Legal Services across Australia. It is a National Network promoting social justice for Indigenous women with particular emphasis on Indigenous women and the law. The Network undertakes advocacy, promotes high quality service delivery, and service coordination

The Network was established in 1998. It has been operating since 2001 with philanthropic grants and short term seeding grants from ATSIC. The Network received a project grant fr more...

This study was conducted in Bhagwatipur and Sundhara VDCs of Tanahu District where majority of population are Magars in Western Development Region of Nepal as well as tried to find out the existing indigenous knowledge systems in Tanahu District in an anthropological gender based study among Magars.

The findings of this study are meant to fulfill the gap of emptiness of not having studies about the indigenous knowledge system existed in Magar people’s daily lives and activities which had b more...

A delegation of five women from the Icelandic Parliament carried a very strong message of support and encouragement to the women of Saudi Arabia. During a recent visit to the Kingdom, the Icelandic delegation, headed by the parliamentary President Solveig Petursdottir, met with Saudi officials and prominent Saudi women in the field of business, academia and the media.

Teen girls who frequently weighed themselves were more likely than others to resort to unhealthy dieting measures, and some ended up gaining close to twice as much weight, a study of Minnesota students found.

Report of the Technical Meeting on the Review and Validation of the Draft Model Legislations on the Prevention and Suppression of Sexual Violence against Women and Children and on the Property Rights of Returning Persons; Nairobi, 5 – 7 September 2006

Brian Whitaker of The Observer reports on a lesbian group's struggle for acceptance in the Middle East. The reporter takes readers through the lifestyle of lesbians in the Middle East and how the emailing list helped to strengthen their survival in a strict muslim community.

Each year the Indigenous Community Women’s Leadership Program (ICWLP) supports and develops around 70 women who have leadership capacity and are already making a contribution to their communities.

The women are coached and supported by skilled and highly motivated coaches throughout the year-long program. Each woman is supported to plan and take action around issues of significance to them and their community.

Since 2004, around 140 women from all over Australia have participated in our more...

The PeaceWomen Project monitors and works toward rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.

This strategic plan was assembled by USAID/Rwanda drawn from several studies, inlcuing the Environmental Threat and Opportunity Assessment carried out in 2003; the Gender assessment and action plan for USAID/Rwanda conducted in 2002. This complemented another study, the the Regional Gender Impact Assessment conducted by Development Associates. Then an Executive Summary Gender Assessment was carried out on which the strategic plan was based. The Plan also based on Rwanda's Conflict Vulnerability more...