International Women's Day

Celebration of Women's Day

The survey was held among 8,000 persons over the age of 21, and the relevant chapter titled Women Health polled 2,711 women 2,160 Jewish women and 551 Arab women.

1) Initiation of special parliamentary discussions on International Woman's Day, as well as on National Fight the Violence against Women's Day.

The 53 minute program addresses themes such as health, politics, environment, women's rights, successful female experiences, etc. Womankind will also present practical examples of the impact, on women's daily life of the implementation of the National Plan on Policies for Women.

The basic finding is that the contraceptive prevalence rate is lower among rural women compared to urban women.

Every year the Bureau of Women's Affairs and a number of private organisations arrange activities in celebration of International Women's Day.

Programming that reinforces women's traditional roles can be equally limiting.

A significant segment through which the state enables working women to take care of their children is the organizing of pre school institutions.

Section 9 on Women's Rights, guarantees that women's rights are human rights (Article 45) and Articles 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 provide details regarding various rights of women.

Production and distribution of audio visual materials on gender, Women and Environment, such as the Role of Woman and Environment in the scope of the Festival of Woman, Action and Transformation and in the week of the Environment, production of Magazine Life and Woman which portrays day to day life of women and their relation with the natural resources.

The Criminal Code also stipulates that when the offence of abduction and trafficking in women and children is aggravated by the deception or coercion of its victims to engage in prostitution, these aggravating circumstances will be taken into account and an appropriate penalty ordered.

Each radio programme deals with a subject of high priority to African women.

Womankind is a radio review that provides a portrait of the various faces of the Brazilian women, in all their diversity.

We introduced our first microcredit program in 1975, and the women who organized it said, We only want to lend to women who practice family planning.

The Pakistan Television (PTV) telecast numerous spots on violence against women. It also aired discussions on the negative impact of violence against women.

On March 5th, as part of the commemorations of the International Women's Day (March 8th), the SPM inaugurate the radio program Womankind The Many Faces of Brazilian Women , developed in partnership with Radio MEC.

Improved prenatal care

To mark International Women's Day this year, the Bureau of Women's Affairs and the Social Affairs Department's district teams organised social and cultural activities in each district on the island, focusing on the central theme of Woman'.

Educate women and make them aware of the essences of those national laws and International Conventions that safeguard the rights of women through flyers, radio broadcast programs, television and others.

In addition, programme schedules were now being introduced to target female audiences and enable women to express their concerns.

The Bangladesh presidency issued a statement to that effect on International Women's Day in March 2000.

All maternal and child health centers are expected to provide information on sexual and reproductive health, particularly contraception, to women approaching them.

Reducing mortality, especially maternal and child mortality

As this section illustrates, there has been considerable progress on major components of basic service delivery for children and women.

In 2004, it focused on new partnerships to enhance women's capacity to benefit from information and communication technology (ICT), thereby positioning rural women producers at higher levels of the value chain.

In some female headed households, men are away on temporary and seasonal migration, while continuing to maintain decision making powers.

l) Promote women's full participation in the media, including management, programming, education, training and research

The Acting President (spoke in Spanish) Lastly, I would like to sincerely congratulate all women on the occasion of International Women's Day, especially my colleagues, the members of delegations and all women working in the Secretariat and other United Nations bodies.

The Ministry continued to coordinate and implement advocacy campaigns on women's rights and violence against women in connection with International Women's Day, 8 March 2005, and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2005, with the support of United Nations entities, including UNDP.

The introduction of fuel efficient stoves in camps for internally displaced persons has further reduced the exposure of girls and women venturing outside the camps in search of fuel wood.

The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people (A 59 258) included a section on indigenous women and girls and recommended that Governments should act in consultation with indigenous women to formulate and adopt specific measures and programmes to benefit such women and their families.

The most visible incentives behind violent acts against women are the social norms and traditional understanding of chastity.

This section presents an overview of General Assembly resolutions and selected reports of the Secretary General, other than those in section E above, that included specific recommendations for action on gender equality and the advancement of women.

We wish to reaffirm the relevance of section E, on women and armed conflict, of Chapter IV of the Beijing Platform for Action.

In considering this topic, the Commission would follow up on the implementation of the critical areas of concern in the Beijing Platform for Action on women and the economy, women and poverty and institutional mechanisms for advancement of women, as well as the chapters on institutional and financial arrangements.

Although intended for use with neo literate women and out of school girls, the messages in the radio programmes are also relevant for use with the listening public at large.

In 2005, the Women's Bureau hoped to broadcast the programme throughout the country, covering topics such as reproductive sexual health and women's employment in areas traditionally considered masculine .

women and poverty education and training women and health women and the economy women and leadership

Article 6

Noting general recommendation 19 concerning violence against women adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty seventh Session, Supplement No. 38 (A 47 38), sect. I.

For Jewish women the rate was 2.73, for Muslims 4.50, for Christians 2.31 and for Druze 2.85.

This section explores types of violence which women commonly experience and the ways this exposes them to the risk of HIV AIDS.

OHCHRB continue to produce short fictional programmes on the condition of women for radio and television.

Ministry of Women Development.