Week of 02-04-2008

• Art & Poem - "Free Yourself"
• India - Business School on Wheels for Rural Women
• South Africa-One Man Can Campaign-Supports Men & Boys to End Gender Violence & Promote Equitable Replationships
• Fiji Cabinet Approves National Policy on Sexual Harrassment in the Workplace
• Human Rights Issues - UN - Gender
• When Research Works for Women - Project Report
• Morocco - Photo of Woman of High Atlas Mountains + CEDAW Committee Conclusions on Morocco Report
• Call for Applications - Pacific-Australia Workshop on Gender, Youth & Economic Empowerment
• PeaceWomen - UN Security Council Resolution 1325 - Sexual & Gender-Based Violence in Conflict +
• Girls' Self-Esteem - Beauty - Self Image - Advertising & Social Pressures - Video +
• Kosovo - Stronger Women - Stronger Nations Report on Kosovo
• Call for Applications-Rutgers Institute for Research on Women-Culture of Rights/Rights of Culture
• Turkey - Issues & Pending Vote on Headscarves for Women at Turkish Universities
• Changing the Climate: Why Women's Perspectives Matter - WEDO
• UN Commission on the Status of Women 2008 - Schedule of NGO Parallel Events
• Nobel Women's Initiative
• United Nations Charter - Gender Equality & Rights +
• Global Study on UN-Led Monitoring & Reporting Mechanism on Children & Armed Conflict - Watchlist
• UK - Polygamous Marriages in Countries Where Legal - Now UK Recognized & Welfare Benefits
• Nepal - Dalit - Caste-Based Discrimination, Social Exclusion, Poverty - Gender
• Kenya - High Infant & Maternal Mortality Rates - Poverty. Conflict Crisis, +
• CEDAW Committee - Concluding Observations for Countries Reviewed - 40th Session
• Bangladesh - Ending Impunity of Acid Attacks, Rape, Violence Against Women & Girls
• Say No to Violence Against Women Campaign - UNIFEM - Challenge Grant Support of UN Foundation
• South Asia - From Menarche to Marriage - New Insights on Adolescent Girls in South Asia - ICRW Report
• UK-Liverpool-Female Genital Mutilation Illegal but Practitioners Imported or Girls Sent Abroad for FGM
• Violence Against Women Monitor - February 2008
• Japan-Police Want Stricter Law on Internet Dating Websites-Issues of Minors & Child Prostitution
• Asian Development Bank - Statistics 2007 - Inequality in Asia - Gender
• UN Pinheiro Principles on Housing & Property Restitution for Refugees & Displaced Persons - Gender
• India - Girls' Education in India: Strategies, Interventions & Programmes
• European Year of Intercultural Dialogue - European Women's Lobby Asks: With Women?
• HIV/AIDS - UN 2008 High-Level Meeting on AIDS - Civil Society Participation - Feminization of AIDS
• FGM-Accelerating Abandonment of FGM-Female Genital Cutting-through Community Change for Human Rights
• Saudi Arabia - Scholarships & Prizes for Saudi Women Journalists
• Women Thrive Worldwide - Women & World Poverty - Economics, Violence, Trade
• Women in Islamist Movements - Toward an Islamist Model of Women's Activism - Carnegie Endowment
• Teen Dating Abuse - Breaking the Cycle - USA Research
• Women Act for Sustainable Peace & Gender Equality in Africa - UN-INSTRAW
• Call for Papers - Forced Marriages Symposium
• Iran-Two Young Women Sisters Sentenced to Death by Stoning-Campaign Against Stoning & Killing Women
• Feminist Critique of Current Peace & Security Policy - Feminist Institute of Heinrich Boell Foundation
• Egypt - Women & Clean Water - Video
• South Asia Women Speak Out on Climate Change Adaptation
• Forced Marriage - Annotated Bibliography on Comparative & International Law
• Iraq-Kurdistan: Male-Dominated Political World
• FGM - Female Genital Mutilation - Video
• International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation - February 6
• Heinrich Boell Foundation - GLOW Feminist Institute
• Europe - Women Religions Europe Exploring an Intriguing Relationship
• Council of Europe - Resolution on Women & Religion in Europe
• Africa - Two Studies on Pregnancy-Related School Dropout of Young Women
• Girl Child Soldiers - Film
• Turkey - Consideration of Headscarf Ban Reform
• Children in Armed Conflict - UN Report - Crisis - Rights - The Girl Child
• Children's Development Bank - India - The Girl Child
• Fiji Women's Rights Movement
• China - Sexual Violence Against Women & Children in China
• Middle East-Economic Imperatives of Marriages: Emerging Practices & Identities Among Youth in the Middle East
• Call for Applications - Asia Regional Training of Trainers on CEDAW - IWRAW AP
• Saudi Arabia - UN CEDAW Committee Calls on Saudi Arabia to End Polygamy, Male Guardianship +
• Art & Poem - Gender Equality for Peace
• Russia - Trafficking - Video - Russia Report on Trafficking of Women & Girls
• Jordan - Childless No Longer: Addressing Infertility & Miscarriage in Jordan

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