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	Stop Violence Against Women Website The Violence Against Women Monitor A publication of The Advocates for Human Rights December 2011
STOPVAW Website News	International and Regional News	National News	New Research and Reports
Updated StopVAW Pages: Violence Against LGBT Women	The Arab Spring: Women’s Rights At Stake	Mexico	UN Women Releases Manual for Promoting Women’s Rights
Updated StopVAW Pages: Moldovan sub-section pages, including: National Plan, Treaties, Reporting Schedule, Legislative Trends, and Women’s NGOs	Regional Conference on Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence	Morocco
		Pakistan

National VAW Monitors who contributed to this month’s newsletter include:

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STOPVAW Website News

StopVAW Country Pages Updated:

As of December, 2011, in the Country Pages section, pages on the country of Moldova have been updated, along with all sub-section pages for the country. (More information)

StopVAW Pages Updated:

As of December, 2011, the pages, including all sub-sections, on Violence Against LGBT Women, under Global Gender Issues has been updated. (More Information)

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International and Regional News

The Arab Spring: Women’s Rights At Stake

One of the issues facing various countries of the Arab Spring is the matter of women’s rights. Whether a country has succeeded in holding democratic elections, such as Tunisia; or is still in the midst of opposing a repressive government, such as Syria; women’s rights remains at the center of debate. (More information)

Regional Conference on Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence

The Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic and Norway Grants are hosting a conference on the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence in Bratislava, Slovak Republic on 29 November 2011. The day-long event is being held to raise awareness of the Convention, which was adopted in April 2011, in order to encourage member states to sign and ratify the Convention. Additionally, the conference will address how to best enact prevention, protection, and prosecution once the Convention becomes national law. (More information)

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National News

Mexico

· Mexico: Federal Government Publically Apologizes for Failing to Prevent Killings in Cuidad Juarez (More information)

Morocco

· Morocco: Elections Test Gains in Women’s Rights (More information)

Pakistan

· Pakistan: Stigma and Corruption Prevent Reporting and Prosecuting Rape (More information)

· Pakistan: Unanimous Support for Bill Protecting Women’s Rights (More information)

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New Research and Reports

UN Women Manual for Promoting Women’s Rights

In response to the growing need for implementation tools, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women has released a detailed manual on promoting women’s rights. The release comes at a critical time after many governments have ratified human rights treaties but have yet to fully adopt the commitments in national law. (More information)

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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.

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About STOPVAW

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), Mongolia, and the U.N. Protectorate of Kosovo. STOPVAW was developed with support from and in consultation with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Open Society Institute's Network Women's Program. This site addresses violence against women as one of the most pervasive human rights abuses worldwide. STOPVAW provides women's rights advocates with information and advocacy tools focused on ending the most endemic forms of violence against women in the region, including domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment and trafficking in persons.

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 Cheryl Thomas. Current interns and volunteers include: Leah Rogotzke and Britt Johnson.

For more information about STOPVAW, please contact the Website Administrator at stopvaw@advrights.org.

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