2012
August 30 | Panama City, Panama
8th Meeting of the Group of Women Parliamentarians (held during the 9th Plenary Assembly)
Host: Panama Theme: Financial Crisis and its Effects on Women in the Region
Objectives of the meeting: to reflect upon the economic crisis and its impact on women, to identify the unique characteristics of women as vulnerable subjects in an economic crisis, to define the social and historical context giving rise to the economic crisis, as well as its financial components, and to identify potential Government policies to protect women and support them in an economic downturn.
Article
- How Do Women Weather Economic Shocks? What We Know (Mayra Buvinic)
May 9 | Valparaiso, Chile
4th Annual Gathering of the Group of Women Parliamentarians (2012)
THEME
Citizen Security for Women: A Parliamentary Task
OBJECTIVE
- To discuss strategies for incorporating concrete mechanisms of protection for women into the national public safety policies of countries in the Americas
ARTICLES
- Gender-based Violence in the Americas and the Caribbean: A National Perspective (Christine Brendel)
- Systemic Sexual Violence Against Women (Pável Uranga)
- Adjusting National Budgets to Citizen Security Needs (Lorena Vinueza)
