Week of 09-29-2008

• Trafficking - Modern Day Slavery - Film Segment
• Gap of Values: Gender & Family Issues as a Source of Tension Between Islam & the West
• Women & The Global Food Crisis
• Conference on Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War, & Social Justice
• Iran - Feminist School - Web Resource
• Eid Muslim Holiday - End of Ramadan - Women's Beauty for Eid - UK
• UN-Endorsed Midwife Training Initiative to Save Lives of Mothers & Babies
• World Expert Meeting on Freedom of Expression & Religious Hatred/Tolerance - GENDER
• Pakistan Conflict - Women & Children - Displacement - Trauma - Refugees - Violence
• Human Rights Impact Assessment - Resource Centre
• Germany - German All-Female Boxing Club - Largest in Europe - Fitness & Confidence
• Women & Girls for Sale - Brides Online - Gender Commodification - Risks & Cautions
• Rwanda Resources - Women's Leadership, Rights, Social Change in Rwanda
• Bangladesh - Gender - Poverty - Environmental Contamination - Health +
• Nigeria - Polygamist Pressured to Divorce 82 of 86 Wives - Threats - Muslim Law
• Internal Displacement - Global Overview 2007 - IDP Women & Girls
• India Poonthaleer Program to Rescue Girls from Female Infanticide
• Girls & Young Women - Global Investment for Education, Rights, Health, Action +
• Ageing - Older Women - UN Programme on Ageing - Research on Ageing
• Morocco - Underage Marriage Fatwa Prompts Official Inquiry
• Africa - Hookworm Infection Linked to Anemia in Pregnant African Women - Study
• Trafficking - Video/TV Spot Against Trafficking
• Trafficking - Research on Health Consequences of Women & Adolescents Trafficked in Europe
• Campaign Against Cluster Munitions & Bombs - Threats to Safety - Women & Children - Ban Bus
• Papua New Guinea - Kup Highlands - Women's Leadership for Peace - Fiji Links for Young Women Leaders
• People at the Heart of Climate-Change Policy - Gender
• Call for Contributions - Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics - Issue on Disabilities
• Colombia - Forced Displacement of Indigenous Peoples - Colombia Conflict
• India Considers Financial Benefits for Girls - Divisive Views - Anti-Feticide Law But Skewed Sex Ratio
• Gender & Indigenous People - Siyanda
• UN Security Countil Resolution 1325 - 8th Anniversary - Encourage Follow Up, Funding, Activism
• UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
• Congo - Armed Groups & Government Forces Continue to Abuse Women & Children in North Kivu
• Canada - Aboriginal Girls & Women Victims of Prostitution & Trafficking
• Solomon Islands - Bougainville - Example of Women's Power for Rights, Resistance, Peace
• Call for Signatures-Letter to UN Secretary-General for UN Accountability on Sexual Abuse by UN Peacekeepers
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 60th Anniversary - International Translations
• Our Voices Matter - Program for Survivors of Prostitution, Pornography, Trafficking
• Huairou Commission Survey - Global Campaign on Women's Safety
• France - French Muslims Find Haven in Catholic Schools - Gender
• Durban Review Conference 2009 - Racism, Intolerance, Discrimination - Gender
• India - Domestic Violence Act - Marking the End of Intimate Colonialsm for Women?
• UN Study on the Status of Women & Freedom of Religion or Belief & Traditions
• Iraq - Mixed Religious Sect Marriages Survive Conflict
• UK to Tighten Laws & Plan Against Prostitution
• China - Regulation Orders Chinese Police to Respond to Domestic Violence Complaints at Scene
• Yemen - Call for Political Representation Quota System for Yemen Women
• Belgium - Human Rights in Belgium Report - Gender - HRWF
• USA - Economic Crisis Likely to Increase Women's Poverty in New York City
• Legal Empowerment of the Poor - Women - Huairou Commission

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