Web Highlights
Women News Network
Using the highest standard in journalism WNN - Women News Network is dedicated to bringing you in depth news features not found in our current public media stream.
Gender Matters
OneWorld
As Women's Day is celebrated across the globe, women have more opportunities for education and stronger rights than ever before. And where discrimination, gender violence, and inequality persist, dynamic women and men are working to change the status quo. OneWorld's living magazine, Perspectives, brings you their stories and more.
ESCR-Net Announces its New Website
The site, developed in Spanish and English, enhances the Network's capacity to share information relevant to the ESCR field; increases the flexibility needed to keep this information fresh and updated; and creates a space for our members to share resources and information about the work they do.
Blogging the Commission on the Status of Women
Women UNlimited
Blogging the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW, February 26 - March 9, 2007.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2007
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2007
Ending Impunity for Violence against Women and Girls
4th session of the Human Rights Council: 12 March - 5 April 2007
4th session of the Human Rights Council: Documentation including reports on freedom of expression, health, violence against women and human rights defenders amongst others.
A Feminist Critique of President Mbeki
14th February 2007
The Gender and Trade Network in Africa (GENTA) write an open letter to President Mbeki of South Africa criticising his failure to address gender issues in his economic development and poverty alleviation policies.
The African Feminist Forum - AFF
This feminist movement promotes the learning and teaching of feminist
principles, the universality of women's human rights, the necessity of
providing a voice for women, the primacy of women's bodily integrity, norms
for working across diversities, and the value of working in solidarity with
strategically chosen allies.
Is another world possible without a woman's perspective?
he 7th World Social Forum brings the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and other progressive forces from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, Europe and all corners of the African continent converge in Kenya for five days of cultural resistance and celebration. Patricia Daniel will be blogging it live from Nairobi on behalf of opendemocracy.net .You can also read her personal blog here.
Guide to Reference Sources on Trafficking in Women / Guide to Websites on Trafficking in Women
Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) is pleased to make available its Guide to Reference Sources on Trafficking in Women and its Guide to Websites on Trafficking in Women.
Femicide: The Killing of Women and Girls
CITIZENShift is an interactive platform where you can explore social issues through: films, photography, articles, blogs and podcasts.
International Service for Human Rights Council Monitor
All you need to know about the Human Rights Council
The Council Monitor is an ISHR publication reporting on all the key developments at the Human Rights Council. It is part of ISHR's Human Rights Monitor Series.
Third International Feminist Dialogues
We are pleased to announce that the third Feminist Dialogues, "Transforming Democracy: Feminist Visions and Strategies" will be held from 17-19 January 2007, in Nairobi, Kenya just prior to the next World Social Forum.
WORLD AIDS DAY 2006
Do you know which country has the most people with HIV? Almost unremarked, India overtook South Africa this year. To mark World AIDS Day 2006 we've put together a briefing on the pandemic including all the latest stats.
Secretary-General Presents Report on United Nations System-Wide Coherence
Following is the text of remarks today by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to an informal meeting of the General Assembly on the report of the High-Level Panel on System-Wide Coherence in New York.
Iran: 'Stop Stoning Forever' Campaign
WLUML supports, and urges you to support, this campaign with the objective of changing the Islamic Penal Code of Iran so that stoning will never again be issued as a sentence or practiced as a punishment.
NAIROBI +21 JOURNAL
This journal creates a space for discourse between generations. Feminists and activists of the 'older generation', the stalwarts of the women's rights movements, investigate the successes as well as the short-comings of the last two decades.
The Lancet Sexual & reproductive health series
Starting on 4 November 2006, the British medical journal The Lancet will publish a series of papers and editorials on sexual and reproductive health. The main objective of this series – initiated and coordinated by HRP – is to advance evidence-based advocacy to put sexual and reproductive health stronger on the international public health agenda.
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
The 2006 16 Days Take Action Kit is in formation and will be completed by the end of September. It can be downloaded in PDF* or Microsoft Word format. If you are willing to translate any of the following materials into a different language, please contact the Center at cwgl@igc.org.
hird International Feminist Dialogues
We are pleased to announce that the third Feminist Dialogues, "Transforming Democracy: Feminist Visions and Strategies" will be held from 17-19 January 2007, in Nairobi, Kenya just prior to the next World Social Forum.
Council Monitor - All you need to know about the Human Rights Council
Daily Updates - what happened at the Council today?
The Council Monitor's Daily Updates review what happened during each day of the second session of the Human Rights Council (18th September - 6th October 2006). They cover not only the discussions and debates in the plenary, but also negotiations and any significant events that occurred.
The Human Rights Council
The second session of the Human Rights Council will meet in Geneva from 18 September to 6 October 2006
Parliamentarians for Women’s Health Launches Web Site
Parliamentarians for Women’s Health – a groundbreaking initiative in East and southern Africa that works with parliamentarians and communities to improve women’s and girls’ access to health services – today launched its new Web site, an essential resource for program staff, researchers, donors, students and others working in the field of international development.
Misfortune 500
WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (WEDO) has launched a website that profiles companies that
violate women's rights and destroy the environment.
Education and Gender series
These papers on education and gender contribute to improving policy development and practice by presenting new learning and examples of good practice in a clear and straightforward manner, with recommendations for action.
A Library in your Letterbox: The GDN/BLDS Document Delivery Service
Accessing the latest development knowledge is a key challenge for many researchers in developing and transition countries. Recognising these challenges, the Global Development Network (GDN) and the British Library of Development Studies (BLDS) have teamed up to bring you the GDN/BLDS Document Delivery service to meet the information needs of research institutes in the South.
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
2006 marks the 16th anniversary of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign! Since 1991, the 16 Days campaign has worked to increase the visibility of violence against women as a human rights violation. The campaign has been utilized by groups all over the world to demand support services for survivors, enhance prevention efforts, press for legal and judicial reform, and use international human rights instruments to address violence against women as a human rights violation, a public health crisis and a threat to human security and peace worldwide.
The Nobel Women's Initiative
The Nobel Women's Initiative was established in 2006 by sister Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Rigoberta Menchú Tum and Betty Williams.
International AIDS Conference
For information on the 2006 International AIDS Conference, including programme information, abstracts, rapporteur and scientific summaries, and links to webcasts, podcasts, transcripts and presentations from key conference sessions, please visit http://www.aids2006.org.
Hizballah: A Primer
Middle East Report Online, by Lara Deeb, July 31, 2006. Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi‘i movement whose militia is fighting the Israeli army has been cast misleadingly in media coverage. The movement is also a political party that is a powerful actor in Lebanese politics and provider of important social services.
Women on Web: Online abortion service
Women on Web,by Rebecca Gomperts, MD, Director Women on Waves,June 29 2006 .
Women on the Web is an online abortion help service for women living in countries where access to safe abortion services is restricted.The goal of the Women on Web service is to help women around the world to obtain a safe medical abortion and reduce the mortality and morbidity due to unsafe abortions.
Guns Out of Control: the continuing threat of small arms
Irin News.org, May, 2006. Are small arms, as many describe them, the real weapons of mass destruction?
ONLINE WOMEN
ONLINEWOMEN is a project of the Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP). CAPWIP is a non-partisan, non-profit and non-governmental regional organization dedicated to promoting the equal participation of women in politics and decision-making.
WITNESS: Partnership announcement
WITNESS partners with local organizations around the globe, empowering human rights defenders to use video to document abuses and violations, and as a tool for advocacy.
WITNESS is presently seeking partnership applications from Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
In pictures: International Women's Day
BBC News, 8 March 2006
A look at the International Women's Day Celebrations throughout the world...
Map: Parenthood policies in Europe
BBC News,24 March 2006
The BBC News website looks at how governments around Europe are tackling low-birth rates with policies designed to make balancing work and parenthood easier. Click on the map to read about each country.
Death and Denial: Unsafe Abortion and Poverty
IPPF, 01 2006
Millions of women have no access to reproductive health services; many more have little or no control in choosing whether to become pregnant.
World Pulse Magazine: Women and Children transforming our world
Women and the Tsunami
Disasters devastate. They hit communities and break their socio-political and economic fabric. They test the resilience of people, especially women, by erasing years of hard-earned lives. Though women are the worst affected and the first to respond to disasters, they are often the last ones consulted in disaster response initiatives.
UNDP launches new Human Rights website
December 5, 2006. The UNDP Programme on Governance in the Arab Region-POGAR, has just launched the Arab Human Rights (AHR) website as part of their efforts to promote participation, the rule of law, and transparency and accountability. The AHR website is a repository for the
United Nations documents pertaining to human rights in general and Arab
countries in particular.
Weak Social Auditing an Obstacle to Improving Garment Sweatshops
Social audits as they are currently carried out often fail to deliver as a tool for checking working conditions in facilities producing garments and sports shoes, research released today by the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) demonstrates
Securing Equality, Engendering Peace
11 November, 2005 - "Securing Equality, Engendering Peace: A guide to policy and planning on women, peace and security" (INSTRAW, 2005) is a hands-on guide designed to assist in the process of formulating organizational and national policies/plans on women, peace and security issues.
Who runs your world?
BBC World. Will the UN's Millennium Development Goals be achieved?
The BBC is launching a new series looking at who holds the power in the world around us
58th Annual DPI/NGO Conference
The three days of the DPI/NGO Conference revolved around issues such as In Larger Freedom: A Focus on Human Development: Implementing the MDGs; the Priorities of Civil Society in terms of Collective Security; and A Dialogue: The Future of the United Nations.
The International Secretariat for Human Development
This website is an international initiative located at York University. It includes a Gender Project that aims to create an inventory of work being produced by researchers, practitioners and grassroots organizations in and from the Global South. Archived are over 70 articles from researchers, activists, and practitioners that remain largely marginalized.
Women Collecting Memories
These pages are dedicated to women’s memories of resistance to war and nationalisms in the countries of former Yugoslavia, but also to the activities of all women in the world who, in the context of transitional processes, raise their voice against war violence and discrimination.
Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty
This UNIFEM report marks the fifth anniversary of the UN Millennium Declaration and the tenth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action. It argues that unless governments and policymakers pay more attention to employment, and its links to poverty, the campaign to make poverty history will not succeed, and the hope for gender equality will founder on the reality of women’s growing economic insecurity.
GenderStats
GenderStats is a research and information resource on women and girls’ gendered positions in South Africa. It seeks to support the participation of women in debates and events, with a view to advancing gender justice in South Africa.
Responsibility to Protect-Engaging Civil Society project
The Responsibility to Protect-Engaging Civil Society project (R2PCS) promotes the idea that states and the collective international community are responsible for the protection of civilians from genocide, crimes against humanity and grave human rights abuses.
Women at the Peace Table: Making a Difference
The negotiations leading to peace are never simple. They are wrapped in history and identity, in the struggle for power and the quest for justice, in personal loss, grief, fear and uncertainty.
Burma Guide to Rights and Democracy
The Burma Guide to Rights and Democracy, or “BurmaGuide.Net”, is your source for information on Burma’s development toward a democratic country where the rights of all peoples are honored under the rule of law.
BurmaGuide.Net offers many “resource summaries” in different areas that are crucial for citizens of countries in transition on the often difficult path towards democracy and a modern economy.
The International Secretariat for Human Development
This website is an international initiative located at York University which is presently working on a Gender Project that aims to create an inventory of work being produced by researchers, practitioners and grassroots organizations in and from the Global South. We have archived over 70 articles from researchers, activists, and practitioners that remain largely marginalized.
Advance Social Watch Report 2005 - Unkept Promises: What the numbers say about poverty and gender
Social Watch launches an Advance Report 2005, claims that the MDGs will not be achieved at present progress rates. "What the numbers tell us is a sad story: at present progress rates the solemn commitment made by the world leaders to substantially reduce poverty and achieve gender equality by 2015 will not be met". This conclusion is substantiated by Social Watch with figures for every country in a report titled "Unkept Promises" launched on June 23, 2005 at the UN.
Updated & Annotated CEDAW Bibliography
The International Women’s Rights Project (IWRP) (www.iwrp.org) announces that the Annotated CEDAW Bibliography has been updated, current to January 2004, to include the most recent academic and grassroots research on CEDAW and its implementation.
Amnesty International Report 2005
This Amnesty International Report, which covers 149 countries, highlights the failure of national governments and international organizations to deal with human rights violations, and calls for greater international accountability.
New Edition of Housing & ESC Rights Law Quarterly
The fourth edition of the Housing and ESC Rights Law Quarterly, a publication
produced by the COHRE ESC Rights Litigation Programme, is now available.
Fourth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
The Fourth Session of the Permanent Forum will take place from 16 to 27 May 2005 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The theme is: "Millennium Development Goals and Indigenous Peoples"
The world health report 2005 - make every mother and child count
MADRE developed ten concise position papers on key issues of women’s human rights
MADRE is using the documents to advocate for government accountability to women’s human rights at the ten year review of the United Nations World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995.
Join the Global Call to Action Against Poverty
Global Call to Action against Poverty is a world-wide alliance committed to forcing world leaders to live up to their promises, and to breakthrough poverty in 2005.
The Alan Guttmacher Institute's (AGI's) online State Center
Allows readers to follow, month
by month and state by state, policies and other measures taken in the US related to sexual and reproductive health.
INSTRAW's progress report on Women’s Human Rights just released
Millennium Project: Investing in Development
A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
Education and Training of Women and the Girl-child
UNESCO and UNICEF are sponsoring this online discussion on as part of the Beijing+10 evaluation process.
Displaced women are often heads of household
Countless displaced women became de facto heads of their households, when their husbands fled to another area, were pressed into regular or rebel armed forces, arrested or killed.
Millennium Project: Investing in Development
A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
The Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations launches its Website
which examines the advocacy work of the Coalition at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, for the Former Yugoslavia and the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission on strategies for the prosecution and
investigation of gender crimes
Egypt: Ensure women's Equal Right to Divorce
Human Rights Watch's 62-page report, documents serious human rights abuses stemming from discriminatory family laws that have resulted in a divorce system that affords separate and unequal treatment to men and women.
Get Involved!
“Defending Women Defending Rights”
International Women Human Rights Defenders Campaign
Kenya: tensions rise as government fails to address internal displacement
With the KANU government voted out of power, internally displaced people hoped of returning to the land they were forced to flee in the 1990s.
Nigeria obliged to extradite Taylor to the Special Court?
International law requires that persons accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes be brought to justice and, that that the state has a duty to deny refuge to those accused of the most serious international crimes.
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
For the Health of Women, For the Health of the World: No More Violence
United Nations Trust Fund Grants Awarded to 17 Initiatives From 20 Countries
The Trust Fund support will enable catalytic approaches to the challenges women face in conflict situations, and provide opportunities to influence peace building and reconstruction processes.
Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: Critical Area E. Women and Armed Conflict
The actions mandated by the Beijing Platform for Action in order to address women and armed conflict remain all-too relevant ten years after they were first called for. Despite these sombre realities, the past ten years have also seen certain positive developments regarding the de-escalation of wars and new policies and actions on women and armed conflict. Read the report here.
Online Discussion on Education and Training of Women and the Girl-child
UNESCO and UNICEF are sponsoring this online discussion as part of the Beijing+10 evaluation process.
Human Rights Committee to review State reports
The Human Rights Committee will be reviewing the state reports of Albania and Benin for the first time, and reports from Morocco, Poland and
Finland for the fifth time. Click here to review the state reports.
Beijing +10 in Africa
This website highlights the current regional meetings, reports, declarations and recommendations of B +10 process.
SEXUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES IN SOUTH-SOUTHEAST ASIA
Women and men from across Muslim societies have come together and issued a press statement calling upon their governments and the entire Muslim world to take all possible legal, social and political measures to eradicate human rights violations related to sexual rights and bodily integrity.
The International Women's Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific
IWRAW- Asia Pacific has extensive experience in training and capacity building on CEDAW. It facilitates the preparation and presentation of shadow reports under CEDAW and has set up networks for monitoring implementation of CEDAW in a number of countries. It is currently in the process of developing an OP section on its website, which explains how the OP works, discusses ratification strategies and outlines guidelines for using the OP.
Security Council adopts Sudan resolution
Resolution 1556 was approved by a vote of 13 in favour, with 2 abstentions. Click here to review Resolution 1556.
WE STILL CAN'T SPEAK OF SLAVERY IN THE PAST TENSE
As the world celebrates the UN designated International Day to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery (Aug 23rd) and its Abolition this week, hundreds - if not thousands - of Central America's young girls are holed up in some of the bleakest brothels in the Americas.
Coalition for the International Criminal Court
The Coalition for the International Criminal Court is a network of over 2,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC).
Public Sector Roles in Strengthening Corporate Social Responsibility: Taking Stock
This report evaluates the role of public policy in strengthening corporate social responsibility. It is based on reports on social responsibility in Angola, El Salvador, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Eldis CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Resource Guide
ELDIS is a gateway to information on development issues, providing free and easy access to wide range of high quality online resources. Their guide on social corporate responsibility offers quick access to key documents, organisations, research themes, discussions and other key resources.
Bush Administration Rolling Back Progress for Women and Girls with Policies That Are Out of Sight & Out of Touch
NWLC's Comprehensive Report Reveals Harmful Impact of Dozens of Policies and Proposals, Sets National Agenda to Improve Women's Lives
Amnesty International's Human Rights Principles for Companies
This database on businesses' social initiatives includes exhaustive information on private sector initiatives that address work conditions and employment, and also more generally, social initiatives that affect the community where businesses work.
AWID Facts and Issues Primer Number 1, August 2002: A Rights Based Approach To Development
A rights based approach to development builds on the experiences and expertise of two significant branches of the women's movement: development and human rights. This primer describes the approach, presents its benefits to the development community, and suggests some ways that it can be used.
