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Ireland: Catholic Church shamed by abuse report
After a nine-year investigation, a commission published a damning report Wednesday on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Catholic Church-run reform schools for Ireland's castaway children.
Read more...Setbacks to democracy in Fiji: Women’s experiences
An interview with Sharon Bhagwan Rolls of femLINKPACIFIC, a feminist communications organisation in Fiji.
Read more...Guide to promoting the participation of women in elections
This handbook handbook is intended to provide a quick reference guide to assist headquarters- and field based actors from the United Nations, Governments and civil society working to promote greater participation of women in electoral processes in post-conflict countries.
Read more...Empowering Woman Migrant Workers in Asia Briefing kit
International migration for work is becoming a long term feature of the Asian region in the recent context of globalization.
Read more...On the Agenda: Women’s Essential Role in Peace-building
UNIFEM strives to increase women’s visibility and participation in peace processes, strengthen protection mechanisms, and incorporate gender equality provisions across democratic systems established once hostilities come to a close.
Read more...Better Aid: A Civil Society Position Paper for the 2008 Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness
A Civil Society Position Paper for the 2008 Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness
Read more...“Political Power Is Still Very Masculine”
Interview with Cecilia Alemany, Association for Women’s Rights in Development
Read more...Gender equality and aid effectiveness: the need to acknowledge marginalised groups
Adopted in 2005, the Paris Declaration (PD) on Aid Effectiveness is the most recent framework on the management of development aid assistance agreed by the donor community in the OECD in partnership with some southern governments.
Read more...Opposition Notes by Catholics for Choice - 'Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights: Neither Religious nor Civil'
The report examines the work of the U.S.-based ultraconservative Catholic League and its ongoing attempts to silence anybody who raises any criticism whatsoever of the Catholic church—whether justified or not—by accusing all complainants of anti-Catholicism.
Read more...France declares war on Sect influence in the UN
A French Government report on sect deviance has denounced what it calls excessive sect activity in international institutions. Scientology and other groups are in its sights, and these groups are putting up fierce resistance.
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