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Statement: The Women's Working Group on Financing for Development: "Good but not Good Enough: Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Doha 2008"

December 02, 2008

The Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development welcomes the fact that the outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha goes far beyond the 2002 Monterrey Consensus with regard to gender equality. But this is not enough.

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Statement: UN Experts warn on the ongoing crackdown of women's rights defenders in the Islamic Republic of Iran

November 27, 2008

“Over the past two years, women’s rights defenders have faced an increasingly difficult situation and harassment in the course of their non-violent activities in the defence of women’s rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” warned two UN human rights experts.

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Change for Equality: RSF Jury Prize at the DW Weblog Awards

November 28, 2008

The website of Change for Equality, the site of the One Million Signatures Campaign has received the Reporters Without Borders Jury Prize of the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards-The BOBs.

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Guttmacher Institute: World AIDS Day 2008-Still Time to Get PEPFAR Right

As the global community marks World AIDS Day on December 1, advocates and policy experts welcome the promise by the incoming Obama administration to put sound scientific evidence at the forefront of the U.S. global AIDS program (PEPFAR).

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NGO Working Group on Women , Peace and Security: Letter to the UN Secretary General regarding the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

On November 24, 2008, the NGO Working Group (NGOWG) on Women, Peace and Security sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General regarding the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to ensure that specific concerns of women and girls are addressed.

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