New Resources
Gender and Climate Change: Toolkit for Women on Climate Change
Developed by Isis International as part of an endeavour by to explore innovative and strategic ways to communicate gender justice and climate justice issues, especially from Southern feminist perspectives, this toolkit presents communication tools and strategies and describes the use of both traditional and new information and communication technologies (ICTs), with a particular focus on the usefulness of community radio and strategies.
Read more...Gender Equality in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Where Does it Stand?
This paper analyses the role gender equality plays in the post-Rio+20 process for a new development agenda centered around a set of SDGs. It looks at proposals and efforts to integrate gender equality and women's rights into efforts to define the SDGs and argues that a new global women's coalition of committed advocates and women's rights activists to focus more aggressively on governance and policy reform in the post-2015 development agenda, particularly on macro-economic policy reform.
Read more...Leaders for change: why support women’s rights organisations?
Examples of the essential roles that women’s rights organisations are playing in advancing women’s rights around the world, based on existing research and the learning of Womankind’s partners.
Read more...Advancing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
Thank you very much for your interest in the conference ADVANCING THE POST-2015 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA which took place in Bonn from 20 to 22 March 2013. We would like to inform you that all outcome documentation is available on the World We Want platform.
Read more...ESCR-Net announces two new resources on Women's ESC rights
Both documents are the result of a collective work of the WG and we have now in front of us the important task of using and disseminating them widely within networks and friends.
Read more...Multimedia training kit on human rights and the internet
The training kit, developed in the context of the Internet Rights are Human Rights project, is composed of modules concerned with the relationship between human rights, information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the internet.
Read more...Born Free and Equal
Born Free and Equal sets out the source and scope of some of the core legal obligations that States have to protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
Read more...The Bonds of Love at 25: A Collection of Essays
It is almost 25 years since Jessica Benjamin's seminal book, The Bonds of Love, came out. On the occasion of this anniversary, Studies in Gender and Sexuality has dedicated two special issues to exploring how this important book impacted, and continues to inspire contemporary psychoanalysis.
Read more...Women's rights and the right to food
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, recently submitted a report on “Women’s rights and the right to food” to the Human Rights Council.
Read more...A New Report: "Guilty by Association: Human Rights Violations in the Enforcement of Cameroon’s Anti-Homosexuality Law"
The 55-page report presents 10 case studies of arrests and prosecutions under article 347 bis of Cameroon’s penal code, which punishes “sexual relations between persons of the same sex” with up to five years in prison.
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