GWA News
News from the Gender and Water Alliance.
Gender and water: how to engineer a common language
23 Feb 07
“You gender people talk among yourselves in a language that is mutually acceptable but extremely difficult for ‘outsiders’ to cope with. ”
Get ready to vote
23 Feb 07
We have received positive responses to the previous Source Bulletin – and we are pleased to see that Cap-Net has also joined the newsletter.
From the GWA Secretariat
10 Nov 06
We welcome all Source Readers, as we hope you welcome Gender and Water Alliance's pages in this Bulletin. We will write about real situations related to water and gender, and request your feedback and requests for particular topics.
Gender and social water management in the Custepec river basin, Chiapas, Mexico
10 Nov 06
"We have gained power and security, and the consciousness of women has increased. We became aware of our rights; as women we have the right to go out of the house. Now we are participating and we can decide; before we did not attend courses and we did not participate actively in the meetings."
The Work of the Gender and Water Alliance
10 Nov 06
Gender deals with differences between women and men, the usually unequal relations between them, the division of work, their different responsibilities and skills and their different rights.
