New Resources
A New Resource: Oxfam: "Making Climate Finance Work for Women in South Africa"
Women living in poverty across South Africa need support to adapt to climate change and to take an active part in the transition to a low carbon economy. This briefing sets out the context of climate finance in South Africa and provides recommendations to policy makers in South Africa for helping women to access and to benefit from climate finance.
Read more...Advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women: role of development cooperation
Preparing for the 2014 Development Cooperation Forum Vienna Policy Dialogue - 13-14 December 2012
Read more...AWID E-learning Session -- Changing their World: Concepts and Practices of Women's Movements
AWID E-learning Session -- Changing their World: Concepts and Practices of Women's Movements. January 23rd, 2013
Read more...A New Resource: None On Record: Documentary Series
None On Record's first video series, Seeking Asylum made its debut on Afropop.tv in January. None On Record's four-part documentary series follows Bisi Alimi, Skye Tenevimbo, John Bosco Nymobi and Uche Nnabuife: four LGBTI Africans who leave their home countries to claim asylum in the United Kingdom.
Read more...A New Resource/Report: "Grief and Rage in India: making violence against women history?"
There is uproar in India at the brutal gang rape of a 23 year old student on her way home from the cinema. Can we harness the international attention to this case to demand that the world's leaders commit themselves to a policy of zero tolerance of violence against women in the post-Millennium Development Goals agenda? By Naila Kabeer
Read more...A New Report: ILO: "Domestic Workers Across the World: Global and regional statistics and the extent of legal protection"
This publication sheds light on the magnitude of domestic work, a sector often “invisible” behind the doors of private households and unprotected by national legislation.
Read more...A New Resource: SID: Development 55.4 "African Strategies for Transformation"
This issue of Development, the quarterly journal of the Society for International Development (SID) on 'African strategies for transformation' tries to captures the dynamic changes that African countries are undergoing right now, with all its new enthusiasm, as well as inner contradictions.
Read more...A New Resource: "Violence Against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: A comparative analysis of population-based data from 12 countries"
This is the first time that nationally representative data have been analyzed and presented in a single comparative format that allows a snapshot of what is known about violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Read more...A New Resource/Film: "The Cause of Progress"
“The Cause of Progress” tells the story of the lives of three Cambodians caught up in the country’s chaotic and often violent economic progress, set against the backdrop of the shifting political, religious and familial landscapes of modern-day Cambodia. Main characters include two courageous women fighting separate urban evictions in Phnom Penh on behalf of their communities in Borei Keila and Boeung Kak. Another character is the Venerable Loun Sovath, a human rights defender.
Read more...A New Resource/Article: "New Feminism Tears Down Walls in Brazil"
Anarkia Boladona has turned the streets of Brazil into billboards against domestic violence. As a self-titled feminist political graffiti artist, she represents a new trend in women’s rights that seeks less academic and more daring and popular avenues of expression.
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