Week of 11-03-2008

• Extended Benefits of Women's Equality & Empowerment
• Kenya - Waki Commission Report - Sexual Crimes - Legal Framework for Justice
• Gender & Cybercrime Legislations
• Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting - Data & Trends
• Mechanisms & Structures to Promote & Protect Women's Human Rights & Gender Equality
• USA - Obsession With Thinness, Beauty, Fashion - Films on Harmful Impacts for Women & Girls
• Congo - Desparate Crisis for Conflict Displaced - Video - Women & Children
• Pakistan - Police Raid Child Wedding - Bride 5 Years Old
• Japan - AJWRC Gender Shadow Report for UN Human Rights Committee Review of Japan
• Fraternal Polyandry
• Widows - India & Global - Research - Discrimination - Marginalization - Legal
• Pregnancy Study on Depressive Symptoms & Risk of Preterm Delivery
• Yemen - Floods Leave Women & Children Homeless, Displaced
• Afghanistan -Internally Displaced Women & Children - Increasing Hardship - Limited Support
• Kenya - Child Deaths Rise - 1 in 9 Before Age 5, Highest Soon After Birth - Girls
• Comfort Women - Japan Urged to Restore Dignity to World War II "Comfort Women"
• Women & Campaign Finance - The High Price of Politics
• Israel - Bill Proposed for Civil Marriage - Now Marriage Only With Religious Designation
• Colombia -Alarming Increase in Internal Displacement - Women & Children
• Europe - GenderWorks - Project to Improve Lives of Poor Women Across Europe
• Somalia - 13-Year-Old Girl Stoned to Death - New Information
• Hajj - Women
• UK & Australia Fight Breast Cancer With Free Screening for Women 50+
• Iran - Joint Observatory Letter on Harassment of Women Human Rights Defenders in Iran
• WAVE - FEMPOWER Periodicals - Women Against Violence Europe
• Czech Republic - Sterilised Romani Woman Denied Compensation by Court
• Indonesia - Women's Rights in Islamic Boarding Schools - Lily Munir
• Women's Solidarity Quilt - Patchworks of 64 Countries of Women's Hopes for the World
• Niger - Court Ruling That Niger Failed to Protect Young Woman Sold into Slavery at Age 12
• Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A Critical Frame Analysis of Gender Policies in Europe
• South America Andean Region - Empowerment of Women With HIV/AIDS
• Women & Media - Training Media Women, Media Advocacy on Women's Issues +
• Islamic Land Tools - Gender
• Sweden Action Plan Against Prostitution & Trafficking
• Gender & Migration - Integration of Female Immigrants in the Labour Market & Society
• Rwanda - Women's Leadership in Government Brings Positive Gender Social Change
• Women & Adequate Housing - Right to Adequate Housing - UN References
• Somalia - Attacks on Aid Workers & Rights Defenders - Severe Women & Children Survival Needs
• North Africa Maghrib - Feminist & Gender Studies: Women Post-Colonial & Today
• UN Human Rights Issues
• Afghanistan - Photo - Woman Teaching Koran Class
• UN Commission on the Status of Women - Procedures Note for UN ECOSOC NGO's
• Catholic-Muslim Forum - Dialogue - Values, Faith, Peace, Freedoms, Rights - Gender Included
• Iran - Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi: Iran's New Penal Code Unfair to Women
• Violence Against Women Monitor - November 2008
• WUNRN Releases Archives Subsite & Search Organ
• Roma Woman's Story of Service to Her Roma People - Serbia +
• Vietnam - Women's Survival Skills Needed in Heaviest Flooding in a Generation
• UN Security Council-Women, Peace & Security-Report Request on UNSCR 1325 Implementation

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