New Resources
Men’s Lives Often Seen as Better: Gender Equality Universally Embraced, But Inequalities Acknowledged
Fifteen years after the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women’s Beijing Platform for Action proclaimed that “shared power and responsibility should be established between women and men at home, in the workplace and in the wider national and international communities,” people around the globe embrace the document’s key principles.
Read more...New Study on East Jerusalem
In 2007, Dr. Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, through World Vision and in coordination with the YWCA of Palestine, published the study “Facing the Wall: Palestinian Children and Adolescents Speak about the Israeli Separation Wall” which showcased the heavy price Palestinian adolescents have to face, both for being Palestinians and also for living in the shadow of the Wall.
Read more...New Gender Action Report: World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank: Haiti Post-Earthquake Track Record on Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development
Gender Action's new report demonstrates that most World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) post-earthquake investments in Haiti represent lost opportunities to help Haiti's predominantly poor female farmers, prevent gender-based violence, and support gender-inclusive development efforts.
Read more...Churches promote new images of masculinity in effort to stop violence against women
Christians involved in church-based gender justice movements say that men must develop a sense of positive masculinity in order to counter increasing levels of violence by men against women.
Read more...Guidelines for Women on Family Laws
This booklet includes guidelines intended to help the social worker in her interviews with women, enabling her to provide them with the proper basic legal information.
Read more...Religion, Culture and the Politicization of Honour-Related Violence: A Critical Analysis of Media and Policy Debates in Western Europe and North America
Over the past decade, the issue of honour-related violence (including honour killing and forced marriage) has entered media and policy debates in immigrant-receiving countries like the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and Canada. In some of these countries, media debate has instigated policy debate.
Read more...Less than 1-in-5 Give America's Places of Worship High Marks on Handling Issue of Homosexuality
Two-thirds see connections between messages coming from America's places of worship and higher rates of suicide among gay and lesbian youth.
Read more...2010 Report on International Religious Freedom
The Department of State submits this report to the Congress in compliance with section 102(b) of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998.
Read more...New Paper on Catholic Bishops’ Opposition to EC around the World
Opinion polls of Catholics consistently show they do not agree with the Catholic hierarchy’s views on EC. In fact, recent polls showed 73% of urban Mexican Catholics think hospitals and public clinics should offer EC to women who have had unprotected sex and 78% of American Catholic women prefer that their hospital offers EC for rape victims.
Read more...New reference tool for women human rights defenders
AWID has compiled a useful reference tool for women human rights defenders, in collaboration with the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition.
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