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Gendered Knowledges: Interdisciplinary Workshop
We encourage staff, research students and post-doctoral researchers from all discipline across all faculties, whose research interests are related to issues of gender and/or sexualities, to present their research.
Read more...Film Screening (Toronto, Canada)
When?
May, 15, 2013
Where?
Carlton TheatresRegister
Cost: PWYC (minimum suggested $7) For further information
ECOSOC Status
Last Month to apply for ECOSOC consultative status in order to be considered by the 2014 NGO Committee (Deadline: 1 June 2013)
Read more...Tunisia: Revise the Draft Constitution
Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA) should modify articles in the new draft constitution that threaten human rights. Human Rights Watch analyzed the draft constitution to identify human rights concerns.
Read more...Bahraini WHRD Zainab Al Khawaja's sentence upheld
Bahraini activist Zainab Al-Khawaja’s sentence to three months’ imprisonment for participating in an “illegal gathering” was upheld by the Appeal Court on 9 May.
Read more...Sudan : Asma Ahmed WHRD and human rights lawyer at risk of torture
Sudanese lawyer Asma Ahmed, a human rights activist, has been detained incommunicado by the National Security Services since 4 May.
Read more...Gender & Colonisation
Gender & Colonization is a bilingual (English/French) journal exclusively devoted to the interactions between gender and women's history, the history of sexuality and colonial history.
Read more...Ethiopian woman fights for rights in Middle East
The issue of domestic workers’ rights in the Middle East has plagued Ethiopian women for years, with ongoing reports of abuse, neglect and sexual violence often coming to the forefront of media across the region.
Read more...Women’s Rights Still Denied in Latin America
Latin American states are still failing to provide guarantees for women’s educational, sexual and reproductive rights, according to activists from different regions of the world meeting in the Mexican capital.
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