Week of 10-29-2007

• Obstetric Fistula - Survivor Stories in Film - Ethiopia
• USA Report - Call to Improve High School Graduation Rates for Girls - Economic Risks + of Dropout
• CEDAW Committee - 40th Session - January-February 2008
• African Female Student Scholarships - Working to Advance African Women (WAAW) Foundation
• Afghanistan - Women Police
• Gender & Women's Mental Health - WHO
• NGO CSW Participation - UN Commission on the Status of Women 2008 - 52nd Session
• UN Security Council Resolution 1325-SC Debate on Women, Peace, Security-Country Statement Excerpts
• UNESCO Literacy Initiative - 35 Countries - 2/3 of Illiterate Are Women & Girls
• USA - Challenges of Retirement Income for Older Women - Social Security Dependence Issues
• Gender & Financing for Development
• Sierra Leone - Getting Reparations Right for Survivors of Sexual Violence - Amnesty Report
• Violence Against Women Monitor - November 2007
• Iraq - Number of Girls Attending School Dropping - Security & Violence, Work at Home, Religion +
• UN Human Rights Council Special Procedures-Nomination, Selection & Appointment of Mandate Holders
• HIV/AIDS - Grassroots Women - Interplay of Health, Poverty, Politics, Culture, Women's Inequality
• Chad - Witchcraft Allegations in Refugee Camps - UN Refugee Agency Educates on Modern Medicine
• 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence 2007 - Theme - Discussion List - Web Resources
• South America - Women's Political Leadership
• COE Commissioner & UN SR Housing-Protection of Housing Rights of Roma in Europe-Roma Women
• Pacific Region Gender & Media Advocacy Statement
• Portugal-Women Reinventing Traditional Craft-2007 Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life-WWSF
• Gendering Moral Capital: Morality as a Political Asset & Strategy of Top Female Politicians in Asia
• New Zealand - Study of Prevalence of Women's Sexual Abuse as Girls Before Age 15
• Somalia - UN Agencies Launch Sexual & Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Response Plan
• Advancement of Women - UN General Assembly Third Committee
• Kenya/Africa - AIDS Widows Struggles for Rights - Right to Marital Land & Refusal of Levirate/Husband Relative Marriage
• Oman - 21 Women Candidates for Oman Consultative Council - None Elected
• Gender Statistics - UNECE
• Birth Registration - Vital Importance for Rights - The Girl Child & Her Mother - WHO Statistics
• Asia - Preference for Sons - Sex Ratio Imbalance - Social Impacts - Potential Sexual Violence
• Mexico-CEDAW Committee Responses-6th Periodic Report-Gender Issues & VAW Women Ciudad Juarez
• Financing for Gender Equality & Empowerment of Women: Paradoxes & Possibilities
• Witches - Europe +
• Congo-UN Special Rapporteur Violence Against Women-Scale & Brutality of Congo Sexual Violence-UN GA
• UN General Assembly Third Committee - Importance for Gender - Social, Humanitarian, Cultural
• AWID International Forum 2008 - The Power of Movements - Web Info & Call for Proposals
• Somalia - Critical Levels of Malnutrition of Somali Children - Humanitarian Needs - Girls & Women
• Form Sample for Evaluating Police Response to Rape & Sexual Assault
• Security Council Urges Women in Peace Process, SC Resolution 1325 Implementation, End Gender Violence
• Colombia - Women & the Struggle for Social Change in Colombia
• Georgia-South Caucasus-INTERNET Conference-Problems of Trafficking & Domestic Violence in Georigia
• Nepal-India - Trafficking of Nepalese Girls to India
• Iran - European Parliament Resolution on Iran - l0/25/07 - Gender
• Social Watch Report 2007 - Dignity & Rights - Gender Equity Index 2007
• Afghanistan Ministry of Women's Affairs
• Kenya - Response Unit on Electoral Violence Against Women - Strength for Women in Politics
• Mujeres en Lucha - Donne in Lotta - Muti-Country Women's Conference for Peace, Democracy, Rights
• Kenya - Abuse in Maternity Wards - High Maternal Deaths - Inadequate Facilities & Care

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