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Stop Violence Against Women Website The Violence Against Women Monitor A publication of The Advocates for Human Rights November 2011 |
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International and Regional News |
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CREA to Release Study on Violence
against Marginalized Women in South Asia |
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Rights for Change Provides Tool for
Researching and Reporting on Violence against Women |
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UN Special Rapporteur Urges
States to Work to Eliminate Violence against Women |
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National
VAW Monitors who contributed to this month’s newsletter include:
Is
your country in the process of drafting or amending a domestic violence law?
The
Advocates for Human Rights provides commentary to laws and amendments on
domestic violence upon request.
See
examples of our Commentary on National Laws here.
To
request commentary or to inquire further, please contact Cheryl Thomas at cthomas@advrights.org.
STOPVAW Website News
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StopVAW Country Pages Updated:
As
of November, 2011, in the Country Pages section, pages on the country of |
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International and Regional News
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New Guide Available on Using CEDAW
The
Australian Human Rights Commission recently released a guide entitled: Mechanisms
for Advancing Women’s Human Rights: A Guide to Using the Optional Protocol to
Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and
Other International Complaint Mechanisms. Sex Discrimination Commissioner
Elizabeth Broderick stated that the purpose of the guide is to help and
encourage advocates, lawyers and women to use international complaint
mechanisms where domestic options fail or are exhausted. (More
information) |
UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women Announces 17.1
Million in Grants to Groundbreaking Efforts to Protect Women and Girls
United
Nations, New York — The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence
against Women (UN Trust Fund) today
announced USD 17.1 million in grants to 22 initiatives in 34 countries,
including, for the first time, |
UN Special Rapporteur Urges States
to Work to Eliminate Violence against Women
The
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, spoke to the
UN General Assembly regarding the continued prevalence of violence against
women. Manjoo stressed the importance of States’ roles in protecting women
from violence. All forms of violence against women “are simultaneously causes
and consequences of discrimination, inequality and oppression.” (More
information) |
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National News
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New Research and Reports
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CREA to Release Study on Violence against Marginalized
Women in
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Rights for Change Provides Tool for Researching and
Reporting on Violence against Women
The
human rights advocacy groups Rights for Change and Aim for Human Rights
have issued a step-by-step handbook for conducting research on violence
against women.
(More
information) |
USAID Releases Report on Demand
for Human Trafficking
In
August of 2011, the USAID office issued a report addressing how to
reduce the demand for human trafficking: Tackling the Demand that Fosters
Human Trafficking. The report was commissioned in order to raise awareness of
good practices. (More
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Subscribe
to The VAW Monitor
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The VAW Monitor is a free, monthly
newsletter sent out on the first of each month. Printable versions of The VAW
Monitor are also available on the website at http://www.stopvaw.org/The_VAW_Monitor.html.
To
subscribe to The VAW Monitor, please fill out the form provided at http://www.stopvaw.org/The_VAW_Monitor.html. |
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About
STOPVAW
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The Stop Violence
Against Women website (STOPVAW) is a forum for information, advocacy
and change. The Advocates for Human Rights developed
this website as a tool for the promotion of women's human
rights in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the
former Soviet Union (FSU), Current staff members of The Advocates for Human Rights
involved with the development of STOPVAW include:
Mary Ellingen, Beatriz Menanteau, Mary O’Brien, Rosalyn Park, Robin Phillips,
and For more information about STOPVAW, please contact the Website Administrator at stopvaw@advrights.org. |
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