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Panel discussion on the results of the WHO Multi Country Study, entitled Violence against women Are women safe at home? (organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs)

The General Arab Women Federation is promoting the human rights of women and is addressing the problem of violence against women.

Literacy programmes for rural areas had specifically targeted women.

5.2.1 Women and politics

Violence against women constituted a grave violation of their fundamental rights and hindered their full participation in society.

What health programmes were specifically directed towards elderly women?

(e) Support for NGO programmes for women

The Government had begun to set up programmes specifically for women, such as the programme for unemployed women over 40, and another for women entrepreneurs, which provided full support in some cases, favourable interest and credit rates, training in computers and assistance in market research. There were also programmes for young people in which many women were enrolled.

The target is low income, disabled, unemployed or underemployed and new immigrant women.

More specifically, special services operating in relation to women are

A. Public and private projects and programmes for women

Provision of medicines and essential vaccines.

Successful development projects directly aimed at women did not succeed just for women but for the community as a whole.

Violence against women, which was both a human rights and a development issue, remained an obstacle to advancing the status of women.

Women voters outnumbered men. They voted not for symbols but for issues.

Did the Gambia have any special programmes for women with disabilities and other vulnerable groups of women?

The number of members increased with the growing number of projects aimed at women and at women apos s grass roots organizations.

Moreover, the Committee is deeply disturbed by the instances of sexual violence against rural and indigenous women and the high rate of sexual abuse of teenagers and girls in emergency zones.

These programmes are intended for both sexes and do not take specific account of the situation or needs of disabled women.

The HIV AIDS crisis and the prevailing violence against women also remain challenges.

Violence against women at home and in the workplace continued unabated.

Setting the above mentioned award aims at

The only branch of the institute which is open to women only is home economics .

Women farmers receive only a minor share of formal agricultural credit even in regions where they constitute the majority of producers, for example, in sub Saharan Africa and Asia.41 While specific credit programmes for women have been important for enhancing women's entrepreneurship, greater efforts are needed to ensure women's access to mainstream credit programmes.

The Ministers' Working Group on Violence Against Women was established in December 2000, to give advice to the Minister responsible for the Status of Women.

Enhance women s economic and political empowerment, including by directing international aid toward their health, education, and welfare.

The objective here is to consider domestic violence against women as a criminal offense.

HIV monitoring in pregnant women is done every two years.

Discussions on the type of extension to adopt for women, to start extension services for women.

That is partly a direct result of violence targeted against them.

Literacy rates are 19 per cent for men and 12.4 per cent for women.

There was also the issue of violence against women, which occurred both at home and within the family.

The programme has the following components targeted on households and women

The SPM has developed a series of capacity building actions for women candidates and studies on women's political participation.

Comparisons between the 1999 General Social Survey and the 1993 Survey on Violence Against Women point to a decline in the rate of spousal violence against women over time.

The Committee is concerned at the incidence of domestic violence against women.

C. Violence, stigmatization and discrimination against women with HIV

There are no provisions that discriminate against women in the private sector either.

They therefore recommended that the status of women's rights should be elevated and that increased resources be provided for women specific entities within the United Nations system.