Week of 03-12-2007

• Spain - Spanish Parliament Approves Law of Equality
• Kyrgyzstan - Government Considering Legalization of Polygamy
• Health Inequities Create Risks for Poor, Adolescents, & Women in Developing Countries
• Afghanistan - Women's Self-Immolation - Report - Link to Violence Against Women
• Middle East-Dubai - "From Presence to Significance" - Global Businesswomen & Leaders Forum
• UN Commission on the Status of Women 2007 AGREED CONCLUSIONS - Advance Unedited Version
• UN Universal Periodic Review of Countries - Statement of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Colombia - Displaced Women & Girls in Colombia
• Women in Prison & Children of Imprisoned Mothers - Developments in the UN Human Rights System
• Female Foeticide & Girl Infanticide - Report
• Zambia - Challenges of Patriarchy, Traditions, Customs Affect Gender Eqality & Political Participation
• CEDAW & NGO's - From Global to Local
• NGO Statement on Importance/Support of UN Human Rights Special Procedures/Independent Experts & Complaint Process
• Mozambique - Early Pregnancy Threatens a Girl's Chance to Attend School - Issues & Personal Story
• Missing Girl Panel - UN Human Rights Council - Launching of Report on Female Foeticide & Girl Infanticide
• Ritual Abuse-Torture: Foeticide & Infanticide in the Private Sphere of Family & Guardian Relationships
• Women & Displacement: Bearing the Burden - Photos - Iraq Example - ICRC
• Moldova Passes Domestic Violence Law
• Jordan - Honour Crimes
• Poem - If I Had My Life to Live Over - By Age 85 Woman
• Burma/Myanmar-Padaung - Metal Rings On Female Stretched Necks-Symbol of Beauty & Culture-Removal Can Be Fatal
• Poem - "Because I Am A Girl, I Must Study"
• Join Petition to Support the UN Special Pocedures - UN Special Rapporteurs & Independent Experts
• Education of Girls & Women Vital for Empowerment, Rights, Gender Equality, Reduced HIV/AIDS Risk +
• Rape as a Weapon of War - Photos - Painful Testimonials - Amnesty International
• Women & UN Reform - UN High-Level Coherence Panel +
• World Bank - Adult Literacy & Non Formal Education - Gender Equality
• HIV/AIDS - Poor, Young & Female: The New Face of the HIV Epidemic
• Finland-Research on Opportunities to Reconcile Family & Work-Ministry of Social Affairs & Health Report
• Afghanistan Supreme Court Approves Contract to End Child & Forced Marriages; Marriage Registration Campaign
• Ritual Abuse-Torture - The Girl Child - Misopaisic Attitudes - Fact Sheet
• Israel - Some Ultra-Orthodox Haredi Women Want Non-Traditional Education & Jobs
• Yemen - High Maternal Mortality - Early Marriages - Health Care Challenges +
• Czech Republic - Sterilisation of Roma Women - Human Rights
• 5WWC - 5th Women's World Congress - Grassroots Initiative - Petition for Support
• CaucAsia Magazine - February 2007 - Gender & Power
• Europe +: Joint Trafficking Project Poster Gallery Examples
• Sierra Leone - Gender Bias & Discrimination Before Elections
• UN Report Predicts Increase in Global Elderly Population
• Financing for Gender Equality & the Empowerment of Women - CSW Papers
• Philippines - The Stark Reality of Human Trafficking in the Philippines
• Middle Eastern Women's Conference-Geneva Declaration & Plan of Action-Women's Federation For World Peace, International
• Turkey - European Parliament Passes Report Critical of Women's Rights in Turkey
• India - Female Infanticide & Abandonment - Preference for Boys - Skewed Population Sex Ratio
• 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia & the Pacific - 2007 - Gender & HIV/AIDS
• Niger - UNESCO - Fighting Poverty With Human Rights & Education for Girls & Women in Niger
• Resolution To Ban Female Genital Mutilation + Resolution Against Forced Marriages-Passed by UN CSW
• Iran - Two Women’s Rights Defenders Now in Solitary Confinement
• Pakistan - Watta Satta: Bride Exchange & Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan - Research - World Bank
• Saudi Arabia - Court Sentence of Lashing for Age 19 Saudi Woman Kidnapped, Beaten, & Gang Raped
• UN General Assembly-Promotion of Interreligious & Intercultural Dialogue, Understanding & Cooperation for Peace
• Women in Parliament in 2006: The Year in Perspective
• Shame of War - Book on Sexual Violence Against Women & Girls in Conflict
• Palestine - Femicide Increases in the Conflict Zone
• UN Special Rapporteur Violence Against Women Addendum Report on Mission to The Netherlands
• United Nations Human Rights Council - 4th Session
• Violence Against Girls - 3 Research Papers - Human Rights Watch

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