Background on the Draft Convention ... The ad hoc committee’s sixth meeting takes place from August 1-12, 2005. In terms of women’s rights in the draft convention, they are addressed in ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome When Helena Jeppesen-Spuhler, an advocate for the ordination of women, joined a major Vatican meeting this month, she was skeptical that an institution ...

This is the key context in which the women’s basketball players requested their meetings. But because the UCAA is not organized as a union, the conferences have no legal obligation to recognize ...

On Oct. 2, the Vatican begins a monthlong meeting of Catholic leaders from around the world to discuss church policy. This year, women are demanding a seat at the table. Some 400 Catholic leaders ...

days before the United Nations convenes senior diplomats at its “Doha 3” meeting on Afghanistan. Taliban abuses deepen daily, violating the rights of Afghan women and girls to study ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (WRGB) — An activist from a national organization spoke at the Saratoga Springs school board meeting Thursday ... athletes competing in women's sports, a cause championed ...

A delegation from the Shoura Council, represented by Council members Dr. Mona Al-Mushait and Dr. Alia Dahlawi, participated in the inaugural G20 Parliamentary Women’s (P20) meeting held in ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- The Buchanan County Women's Democratic Club will host its meeting at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, May 27. St. Joseph Museum Director, Sarah Wilson will speak on "How the ...

The Women’s Association of the Guyana Police Force convened a meeting on Wednesday at the Police Officers’ Mess Annexe, Eve Leary, Georgetown on gender equality and more females in leadership ...