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In this country where women are forced to completely cover themselves in public, are barred from driving, and need permission to travel abroad, it's small wonder many are embracing the freedom of anonymity on the Internet.

The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality is hosting an eight-week electronic discussion forum on ‘Sexual Concerns – Approaches and Management’.

UNIFEM, a collaboration with UNAIDS has developed this gender and HIV/AIDS web portal to provide up-do-date information on HIV/AIDS epidemic from a gender-aware perspective.

An US$800,000 grant will help increase access to upper secondary education for poor girls in Cambodia through the provision of residential facilities with media learning centers.

On 24 - 25th April 2006, the Uganda Rural ICT Partners Workshop was held under the theme “Building Sustainable Partners for Community Led ICTs for Rural Development”.

A one-day workshop on "Gender, ICTs and Development" will be held in Manchester on Tuesday 6th June.

Teachers are becoming more confident about using technology in the classroom and are finding it easier to maintain boys' interest, new research reveals.

Today (March 08) is the 96th International Women's Day (IWD). Pursuant to the declaration by the Socialist Party of USA, the first National Women's Day was observed across the United States on February 28, 1909.

APC WNSP gender and ICT policy monitor portal www.genderIT.org aims to build awareness about ICT policy from the point of view of women's critical concerns, such as violence against women or economic empowerment.

Nine skilled information and communication technologies (ICT) trainers from five different women's media organisations met in Mexico City in February of 2006. They came together to learn about a medium they never imagined they would one day have access to: video.

ICTs are generating more than $2 billion dollars annually for Costa Rica, and the industry is one of the fastest growing in the country.Yet, women continue to constitute a minority in the IT professional sector and their participation seems to be decreasing.

A Web usage survey in US suggests that men are attracted to onnline activities that are far more action-oriented, while women tend to value things involving relationships or human connections.

Al Jazeera Media Training and Development Centre (Doha, Qatar) is currently conducting a UNESCO-supported two-week training programme on TV Journalism and TV Reporting for twelve Palestinian women journalists.

More than two dozen members of women's self-help groups in Tamabaram distrcit of Tamil Nadu took an important step towards financial independence when they attended the first day of a 12-day training programme on setting up information kiosks.

The district administration of salem , Tamil Nadu has organised a training programme, `Building skills of the self-help group (SHG) women in establishing information kiosks' at the Sona College of Technology.

To help harrassed women Mahila Vikas Gruh (MVG), an NGO in Ahmedabad will soon launch a 24-hour helpline. The helpline will enable women facing harassment in family to seek advice from MVG volunteers over telephone.

The State Government of Tamil Nadu has decided to impart 50 members of self-help groups in Tiruchi district training in Information Technology through Computer Science departments of engineering colleges affiliated to the Anna University.

Assisted by UNESCO, three women’s journalism organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo recently hosted a workshop on reinforcing professional capacities and the treatment of information during election periods.

The third Women's Electronic Network Training (WENT) Africa event will take place in Uganda in December. The focus for the event is the promotion of awareness and support for free and open source software (FOSS) in women's organisations in Africa.

The Mookambigai College of Engineering, Kalamavur in Pudukottai district, and Anna University in Chennai jointly organised a 12-day programme to train self-help group women to establish information kiosks on college premises.