Week of 03-22-2010

• CEDAW Committee Elections 2010
• Turkey - Berdel Weddings - Traditional Custom - Rarer Now
• Women & Islam: Religion, Tradition, Human Rights
• World Water Day - Videos - Women, Water, Challenges, Rights, Crisis
• Iran - UN Universal Periodic Review - Gender
• Africa - Women's Land Rights Can Help Food Security, Reduce Hunger
• Women Engaging With Economic Alternative Growth, Societal Inclusion, Justice
• Sanitation & Safe Water - UN Questionnaire: Good Practices - Schoolgirls Issue
• Nordic Countries - Rape & Human Rights Report
• GEAR Campaign CSW Report +
• Right to Nationality - UN Secretary-General Report - Women & Girls
• Call for Input - Gender Equality, Human Settlements, Web Portal - Survey
• Men & Gender Equality - Public Policies +
• HIV/AIDS - Religious Leaders & UN Discuss HIV/AIDS at Conference - Gender?
• Yemen - Islamic Clerics Oppose Child Bride Ban
• Rural Women Key to Economic Growth - UN + Report
• Europe EPAC VAW - Violence Against Women - Country Focus
• 2009 Gender Report Card on the International Criminal Court
• Trafficking - Exhibit in Shipping Containers - Abuses - Video
• Iraq - UN Universal Periodic Review - Gender
• Financial Crisis & Development from a Feminist Perspective
• USA - Increase in Sexual Assaults in Military - Report
• El Salvador - Violence Against Women - Significant Challenges - UN
• Haiti - Call for Sign-On - Women in Relief & Reconstruction + Shadow Report
• Human Rights Education Resources - UN
• Burma/Myanmar - Tribunal on Crimes Against Women - Impunity of Military
• Criminalizing Sexuality: Zina Laws as Violence Against Women in Muslim Contexts
• India - Laws Fall Short to Protect Women Charged with Witchcraft
• MDG UN Summit - Gender & MDG's - NGLS Website
• EU Minorities & Discrimination Survey - Report - Gender
• Peril or Protection - Livelihoods & Gender-Based Violence in Displacement
• Guatemala - Femicide Crisis - Law Needs Implementation - Whistles +
• Philippines - Adoption of Action Plan for UN SC Resolutions 1325 & 1820
• Iceland - Ban on Strip Clubs
• Rape Must Never Be Minimized As Part of Cultural Traditions - UN
• Guinea - Women's Solidarity Mission - Findings & Recomendations +
• FGM - UNFPA Says 3 Million Girls Each Year Risk FGM
• Special Rapporteur Religion or Belief UN Report 2010 - Gender
• Albania - Ending Domestic Violence - Report
• Harmful Traditional Practices - EU Study
• Haiti - Post-Earthquake - Female "Bodies Shaking" from Rape +
• Call for Applications - CREA Sexuality, Gender & Rights Institute
• USA - AAUW Study - Why Few Women in Science, Engineering +
• Palestine - Widespread Violence Against Women - Reports +
• Uganda - Disabled Women - Multiple Discriminations - Need Statistics
• UN High Commissioner Human Rights Stresses Importance of NGO's
• Pakistan - Christian Couple Brutalised for Refusing Conversion to Islam

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