Week of 04-21-2008

• UN Indigenous Issues Forum - Indigenous Women & Indigenous Rights - Climate Change & Indigenous Peoples
• Congo - Film Segment - The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
• UK - Survey - One-Third of Girls Ages 11-19 Have Tried Self-Harm
• Paris Declaration Implementation - Implications for Promotion of Women's Rights & Gender Equality
• New Zealand - Domestic Violence Homicide - Reality Story
• Haiti - Starvation - Women - Mud Cooking - Video
• Call for Proposals - Gender & Citizenship: Between Equality & Difference - Cortona Italy Colloquium
• East Timor - Arts & Human Rights for Healing & Peace
• Caritas International Signs Women & Development Pledge to End Gender Poverty
• Women, Faith, & Development Alliance-Investing in Women & Girls is Key to Ending Global Poverty
• Brochure on Risks of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Institutional Care Facilities
• United Arab Emirates - Technology Facilitates Women's Empowerment
• Gender Sensitive Police Reform in Post Conflict Societies - Policy Briefing Paper - UNIFEM & UNDP
• Care for Carers - Guidelines - Violence Prevention for Elderly Women With Dementia - Europe
• India - Domestic Worker Women - Call for Rights, Dignity, Security, Legislation
• Hungary - Failure to Protect Women from Rape & Sexual Violence in the Home - Report
• Social Security - A Woman's Human Right - PWESCR
• UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women - Country Visit Reports
• World Bank Gender Action Plan - IFC - Promoting Business & Entrepreneurship for Women
• Impact of Parental Imprisonment on Children - The Girl Child
• Transnational Indicators to Measure Violence Against Women & Assess State Responses
• India - Increase in Women-Initiated Divorces
• Iran - Women's Rights Activists Sentences (Suspended) for Jain & Lashing - Iran Penal Code: Flogging-Lashing
• Afghanistan - Millions of Afghan Children, Mainly Girls, Not Attending School - UN
• Brazil - Women's Experience of Urban Violence in Brazil - Report
• Durban Declaration & Review - Gender as Cross-Cutting Issue on Discrimination - Document of UN SR Education
• UN Preparation for Review Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia-Gender & Racism
• Cambodia - Korea Marriage Brokering - Dramatic Increase
• Call for Applicants of Eligible Countries - Training - International Human Rights Instruments +
• Microfinancing Evolves, But Study Finds Fewer Female Clients
• USA Studies - Partner Violence Precedes Many Homicides - Child-Infant Abuse & Neglect
• Women's Housing, Land & Property Rights Integral in Fight Against HIV/AIDS - COHRE
• Japan - Call for Updated Rape Law & More Victim Services - Low Rape Reportage
• The Netherlands - Study on Prostitution in The Netherlands Since Lifting the Brothel Ban
• Fiji - Women March & Call for End to Sexual Violence Against Women & Children
• Unreported Births & Neonatal Deaths - Obstacle for Improved Neonatal Survival in Low-Income Countries
• Afghanistan - WOMEN - Photo Gallery
• Participation of Children & Young People in Emergencies - Consider for Girls & Young Women
• Norway Considers Law on Criminal Offence to Buy Prostitute Services
• Congo - Tortured Women & Girls Struggle for Justice
• Middle East & North Africa - Women Entrepreneurs -
• China - Children Kidnapped, Trafficked, Stolen, Sold, Abandoned - The Girl Baby in China
• Women & Local Governance - Europe
• Migration & Climate Change - Gender
• Saudi Arabia - Human Rights Abuses from Male Guardianship & Sex Segregation - Report
• UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Migrants Report 2008 - Gender - Trafficking References +
• Teaching About Religions & Beliefs in Public Schools - Toledo Guiding Principles - Book

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