Week of 02-23-2009

• Sexuality, Culture & Society - Summer Institute
• Philippines - Magna Carta Bill for Women's Rights Passes Senate & House
• Iraq - War Widows - High Numbers - Little Aid & Support
• Mauritania - Young Reject "Forced Fattening" Practice of Leblouh
• Debt Bondage Questionnaire for NGO's from UN Special Rapporteur Slavery
• UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery - Mandate
• Australia - Campaign School for Women - Trainers Guide +
• CSW 53 2009 - Parallel Events of Missions & UN Entities
• Gender Impact Strategy for Agricultural Development
• Europe - Maternity Leave - Debate - EWL Proposals
• Global Care Chains - Gender Inequalities - UN-INSTRAW Research
• Disabled Women - UN Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Iran - Flogging of Women
• Iran - Two Women Labor Activists Flogged
• Women Founders Collective
• Obstetric Fistula - Tanzania - Repair & Hope
• USA - Woman Who Left Polygamous Sect Helps Those Who Want Out
• Women's Link Worldwide - Gender Justice - Call for Cases - English & Spanish
• Cyprus - Women's Lobby 50-50 Campaign for EU Elections
• European Parliament - Gender Equality in the EU in Past 30 Years
• Alice Walker - Writer, Activist - Website Launch
• Call for Applications - Litigation Training on Violence Against Women
• Obstetric Fistula Resolution - UN General Assembly
• Trafficking - Argentina - Trafficking Law Requires Victims Over 18 to Prove No Consent
• Germany - Headscarf Ban for Teachers, Civil Servants, Violates Rights - Report
• UN Human Rights Programme - Handbook for Civil Society
• Rwanda - Successful Home Based Care Program for HIV - YWCA
• Nepal - Gender & Climate Change - Study
• Call for Gender Equality Laws - All Countries - IWRAW AP
• USA - Beheading Wife Is a Crime, Not an Honor Killing - Article
• Exhibiting YOU - Art, Essays, Video, Creative Works
• Call for Signatures - Africa for Women's Rights Declaration
• Hungary - Financial Compensation for Coercively Sterilised Romani Woman
• Nepal - Trauma of Uterine Prolapse for Women of Nepal
• Australia - Health & Welfare of Aboriginal & Islander Peoples 2008 - Gender
• GenderWorks Newsletter - Europe - Women's Poverty Issues +
• Rethinking Care, Gender Inequality & Politics
• Education for Nomadic Girls - Mobile Schools - Kenya - Syria
• Somalia - Malnutrition Emergency - Humanitarian Crisis - Report Data - Gender
• India-Kashmir - Woman's Personal Story - World Pulse
• CSW - UN Commission on the Status of Women - NGO Statements
• Iran - Shirin Ebadi - Gender & Human Rights Advocate - Risks & Courage
• Call for NGO Sign-On - Urgent - Women, Peace Processes, Justice & Security
• 2008 Human Rights Country Reports - US State Department
• Education for Girls
• Special Rapporteur Food Report to UN 2009 - Development, Aid, Human Right to Food
• Rural Women Panel - CSW 53

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