Week of 03-17-2008

• Pakistan National Assembly Elects First Woman Speaker
• Trafficking - Human Trafficking Film Segments
• Arab Human Rights Fund Launch + Call for Grant Applications
• India - Gender Law Newsletter - Partners for Law in Development
• India NGO Shadow Report to UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights-Call for Endorsements
• Women & Sanitation - World Water Day & International Year of Sanitation
• Czech Republic-Girls in Czech Institutional or Alternative Care May Experience Prostitution Early
• Art & Poem - Ecology, Climate, Nature, Women
• Women's Empowerment Vital to Meet Global Challenges as Peace, Climate Change, Trafficking +
• Council of Europe Resolution 1582 - Combating Domestic Violence Against Women
• Sudan Women Speak on Darfur - UN Geneva Panel
• Iran - Mokarrameh Ebrahimi Release from Prison & Death by Stoning - UN Report & Treaties
• China - Women Migrant Workers Under the Chinese Social Apartheid
• Asian Rural Women's Conference 2008
• Iraq - Women Demand Equality & End to Violence
• Ketubah - Jewish Marriage Religious Contract
• PAKISTAN: Young Woman Abducted & Gang Raped at Public Mausoleum
• UN Commission on the Status of Women 52-2008 - Resolutions & Agreed Conclusions - Advance Unedited Versions
• Trafficking - When Victims of Trafficking Decline Assistance - Study Report
• Women, Power & Politics - Global Online Exhibition - Multilingual
• Mongolia - Human Rights Activists Urge Parliament of Mongolia to Cancel Law on No Quota for Women Candidates in Parliament Election
• USA - Men's Changing Contribution to Housework & Child Care - Research
• Ghana-Trokosi-Ritual of Spiritual Bondage to Shrine, Servitude, & Sexual Exploitation of Young Girls
• Women in the Workplace - Power Point
• Torture Images in Movies & Film Advertising May Show Dramatic Gender Violence, Torture, Victimization
• HIV/AIDS - Combatting HIV & Violence Against Women - Campaign: Women Won't Wait
• Noeleen Heyzer - ESCAP Executive Secretary - Asia-Pacific
• Bangladesh - Rapes - Video
• Turkey - The Headscarf - Women's Secular & Religious Positions
• Canada - City of Ottawa - City For All Women Initiative
• EU Bilateral & Regional Free Trade Agreements - Bringing Women to the Centre of the Debate
• The Door - Exhibit - A Woman's Journey from Domestic Violence Victim to Survivor
• United Arab Emirates-UAE - Women's Empowerment
• ILO Training Centre Gender Campus - On-Line Courses +
• BOLIVIA-Intersectionality of Gender Human Rights-CEDAW Committee Review-Right to Food & Water
• Asia & Pacific-Publication & Campaign on Communication Tools for Grassroots Women's Empowerment
• Afghanistan: Self-Immolation Among Afghan Women - Photos
• UN Gender Equality Architecture Reform - Statement from CSW Linkage Caucus
• South Africa-High Risks of HIV/AIDS for Rural Women-Violence-Poverty-Video-Amnesty Report
• Congo-UN Special Rapporteur Violence Against Women Mission to Congo-Report-Conclusions & Recommendations
• 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence - 2008 Theme Announcement
• International Poll Finds Large Majorities in Countries Favor Equal Rights for Women
• Russian Translation - WOMAN - Power Point
• Pakistan - Domestic Violence Endemic, But Awareness Slowly Rising
• Women Whose Male Relatives Are Missing in War/Conflict - ICRC
• Africa - Grace, Tenacity & Eloquence: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Africa
• The Status of Women Matters for Food Security
• Gender Research & Methodologies

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