Week of 07-14-2008

• CEDAW Committee - UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
• Bosnia - Headscarves for Muslim Women Reflect Generation Gap
• Trafficking - UN.GIFT - Vienna Forum Report: A Way Forward to Combat Human Trafficking
• USA - Los Angeles - Untested Rape Kits - Crime Victims Wait for Answers
• AWID Announces New Website Launch
• Kenya Woman Wins Landmark Wrongful Dismissal HIV Status Case
• Workbook for Entrepreneurial Dreams & Success with Women's Spirit & Talents
• India - Dalit Woman Is Rising Politicial Leader - Skill for Inventive Coalitions
• Feminist Leadership & Movement Building Advocacy Institute - Young African Women
• Russia - Moscow - Prostitution & Trafficking - CNN
• Uganda - Poverty, Wars & Alcohol Perpetuate Domestic Violence - Survey
• Venezuela - Amnesty Report Calls for Implementation of Domestic Violence Law in Venezuela
• Yemen - National Plan of Action Against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Yemen
• Rape: Weapon of War - UN
• UK - Trafficking - Project Pentameter 2 - Targets Sale of Women & Children
• Call for New Publications on Gender & Development
• Gender Equality for Development & Peace - EC/UN Partnership
• Ireland - Irish Aid - Gender Equality - Gender Based Violence
• WHO Cites Inequalities in Health from Gender & Societal Norms
• India - Rajasthan State - Tribal Women - Ancient Customs Issues - Rights - Steps to Empowerment
• Iran - Death Sentence for Female for Alleged Crime Committed (Denial) at Age 13
• Interfaith Conference of Religious Leaders - Madrid - Women?
• Turkey - Documentary Film on the Struggle of Women Running for the Turkish Parliament
• Gender & Sustainable Development: Maximising the Economic, Social, & Environmental Role of Women
• Malaysia - Sisters in Islam
• Gender Mainstreaming - Siyanda Resources
• CEDAW - Impermissible CEDAW Reservations by UN Member Countries
• Mongolia - Photo of Mongolia Family + Gobi Women's Song Film
• Louise Arbour Article on Optional Protocol to UN Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
• Indigenous Feminism - Book Review
• Afghanistan-Woman Athlete Declines Olympics-Cited Religious Opposition-Seeking Asylum in Europe
• The Girl Project - USA - Photographs by Teenage Girls - Exhibition on Female Adolescence
• Somalia - Critical Famine Issues - Aid Access at Risk - Humanitarian Disaster - Women & Children
• Coercive Sterilization of Romani Women-Campaign for Compensation-Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia
• Financing for Gender Equality - Women's Consultation Submission on Financing for Development
• Iran - Leading Members of Baha'i Faith Detained - 2 Women
• Tanzania - Education for Girls - Video
• Slovakia - Joint NGO Shadow Report for CEDAW Committee Review of Slovakia - 41st Session
• Bangladesh - Midwives Assisting Homebirths Face Challenges in Rural Bangladesh
• Myanmar/Burma - Mobile Clinics Bring Life-Saving Care to Myanmar Women
• France Denies Citizenship of Moroccan Muslim Wife
• Women, Weddings, Weight-Dieting - Research Study + Article
• Moldova - UN Special Rapporteurs on Violence Against Women & Torture Conclude Visit to Moldova
• Beguines - Historical Women's Laic Religious Communal Living - Belgium +
• Congress on Gender in Climate Change & Disaster Risk Reduction - CAPWIP & UN/ISDR
• International Gender Policy Network - CEE, SEE, Caucasus & Central Asia - Country Reports
• Human Right to Peace - Luarca Declaration - Women & Peace

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