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The International Rescue Committee (IRC). Iraq.
Read more...Doctor freed after court forbids forced marriage
Legal landmark as Bangladeshi authorities apply new British law
Read more...A New Resource/Interview: IPS: "Failure to Translate Women’s Legal Rights into Action"
December 17, 2008
Each year, for 16 days in December, the world’s focus shifts towards taking action against gender-based violence. Governments and civil society organisations raise awareness around women’s rights and lobby for gender equality. But activists lament that little action is taken throughout the rest of the year and women’s legal rights often fail to be implemented and put to action.
Kristin Palitza (IPS) interviews Nokothula Magudulela, executive director, Agenda Feminist Media.
Read more...A New Resource: IGTN, IATP: "Case studies highlighting the gendered dynamic around agriculture, trade and food sovereignty"
These fact sheets are part of a joint collaboration between International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) and Institutefor Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and the entitled project Transforming Women’s Livelihoods in relation to food, agriculture and trade.
Read more...New Website: UNIFEM East and Southeast Asia Office: "CEDAW in Action in Southeast Asia"
This new site is dedicated to increasing understanding about the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and highlighting policies, practices and actions to effectively ensure its implementation in the countries of Southeast Asia.
Read more...Call for Papers: Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal: "Negotiating, Constructing and Re-Constructing Girlhoods"
Girlhood Studies is published and distributed in print and online by Berghahn Journals. Visit GHS online for further details, including submission guidelines. Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2009.
Read more...A New Resource/Article: International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN): "The Doha Development Agenda (DDA) in the context of the global meltdown: What's next?"
A gloomy global economic context
The current global financial crisis questions an economic system characterized by greed and lack of transparency. As a result, debates on economic discrimination expressed through salaries disparities between top positions and working class reemerged and rightly so.
By: Maria Rosaria Iorio (Geneva Officer)
Read more...Change for Equality Iran: The Defenders of Human Rights Center Raided and Closed
December 23, 2008
On Sunday December 21, 2008 plain clothes and uniformed police and security officials raided the offices of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), a human rights Organization headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, preventing a delayed celebration of the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights by the Center and sealing their offices.
Read more...Urgent Appeal/Action: FIDH: Zimbabwe: Activist still missing: Enforced disappearance of Ms. Jestina Mukoko
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Zimbabwe.
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