International Center for Research on Women

The battle for gender equality in an era of machismo politics

The rise of fundamentalism, chauvinistic nationalism and macho leadership has made defending women’s rights that much harder, I report from Bangkok at the Beijing +25 review. Away from the tight-lipped silence of government officials locked in negotiations, some 150 people sat huddled on the floor outside one of the cavernous conference halls of the United […]

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Start off on the right foot: Walk and reach out

As a heaving, aspirational India expands its cities and towns, space for walking seems to shrink proportionately. It’s a lesson that is being learned the hard way as nature brutally reasserts its supremacy. In the middle of a mall-obsessed, real estate-hungry Singapore, I am rambling through a rain-forest. Located within the Botanic Gardens, this unexpected

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