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APRIL 2005 LISTSERVE RELEASES
These computer Archives of WUNRN ListServe releases,
are in block format. You can click on selected releases to see
full text. But, to have original format, and with pictures and
attached files, please request from mosie@infionline.net.
- "Youth For Youth - Combat HIV/AIDS" - Regional
Strategy Meeting - Croatia - June 2-5, 2005
- Afghanistan - First Woman Governor - Badakhshan
Province - Note Reference to Women's Tradition & Human
Rights Issues
- Afghanistan - Forced Marriage - Domestic
Violence
- Afghanistan - Launch of Nationwide Campaign
to Promote Women's Rights
- Afghanistan-US - Tahirih Justice Center
Helps Potential Honor Crime Victim
- Africa - Abduction of Children & Notation
of Girl Children - Resolution of the United Nations Human Rights
Commission 2005
- Africa - Abuse of Women Escalates HIV/AIDS
Infections in Africa
- Africa - Campaign for Ratification of the
Protocol to the African Charter on Human & People's Rights
on the Rights of Women in Africa
- AFRICA - GENDER - Intervention on Human
Rights & Gender Perspective - UN Human Rights Commission
2005
- Africa - Protocol to the African Charter
on Human & Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Maputo Protocol
- Africa - SchoolNetAfrica.net; African
Education Knowledge Warehouse
- Africa Region - Gender & ICT Workshop;
References on the WSIS Gender Caucus & ListServe
- African Gender Awards 2005; Femmes Africa
Solidarite
- AFRICAN UNION
- AFRICAN UNION (4675 lines)
From: Lois A Herman <Mosie@INFIONLINE.NET>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 02:10:28 -0500
- AGFUND PRIZE Nominations Accepted - April
30 Deadline
- Appeal to the UN - A Call for Spiritual
Empowerment - >From NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values & Global
Concerns - UN Geneva CONGO
- Asia Pacific - IWRAW - Global Consultation
on the Ratification & Use of the CEDAW Optional Protocol
- Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law & Development
Statement at UN Human Rights Commission 2005
- Asia Pacific Online Network of Women in
Governance, Politics, & Transformative Leadership
- Asia/Japan - Comfort Women Demand Justice
- World War II Japanese Military Sexual Slaves
- Balkans - Support for Women Human Rights
in Western Balkans Project - Violence Against Women +
- Call by AWID for Research Survey Participation
- Trends in Funding for Women's Rights Work in the Past 10
Years - Causes & Impacts - Strategies to be Considered
for More Gender Resources Support
- Call for Applicants - Five Doctoral Candidate
Positions in the Humanities & Social Sciences at Baltic & East
European Graduate School
- Call for Applicants - Princeton University
USA - School of Social Science Advance Study Awards
- Call for Articles/Research - Gender & IT
Encyclopedia
- Call for Gender Dimensions on Research
on All Social Issues - Example of Efforts on Housing, Report
from UNRISD on Land Distribution & Race Relations in South
Africa
- Call for Papers - Critical Perspectives
on the Participation of Girls & Boys in South & Central
Asia
- Call for Papers - Gender & Environmental
Governance - Intersectionality on Gender Issues
- Canada - Indigenous Women's Rights - Native
Women's Association of Canada at the UN Human Rights Commission
2005
- Canada: Gender-Based Analysis: Building
Blocks For Success - Report of the Standing Committee On Status
Of Women 2005
- CaucAsia Bulletin - March 2005
- CEDAW UN Member State Reports - UN Website
Reference
- Center For Asia-Pacific Women In Politics;
onlinewomeninpolitics.org
- Central & Eastern Europe, CIS, Mongolia, & Kosovo
- Stop Violence Against Women Website Reference & Newsletter
- Child Marriages & Early Pregnancies
- Health Risks - India + Global
- Child Prostitution - Stop DEMAND - Child
Sexual Abuse & Violence
- Children - The Girl Child - Rights of
the Child Reviewed at UN Commission on Human Rights 2005; Summary
Statements on Commission Deliberations on Women's Human Rights
- Collaborative Statement Against Trafficking
in Women at the UN Human Rights Commission-Geneva & the
UN Commission on the Status of Women-New York
- Colombia - Study on Intimate Partner Violence & Unintended
Pregnancy
- Colombia - Trafficking - Release in Spanish & English
- Source: CATW Latin America
- Conference - Mediterranean Women & Their
Rights - Fes, Morocco, April 28-30, 2005
- Crimes of Honor - Europe Challenged by
Honor Killings
- Crimes of Honor Panel - United Nations
Human Rights Commission 2005 - Geneva
- Czech Republic - Equality of Education
- Roma - Girls
- Denmark - Prostitution Male Clients -
New Study by the Danish Centre for Research & Social Vulnerability
- Disabled Women & Girls
- Disabled Women & Girls (1232 lines)
From: Lois A Herman <Mosie@INFIONLINE.NET>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:17:26 -0500
- Disabled Women - Beijing + 10 Position
Paper on Women with Disabilities
- Due Diligence - The Responsibility of
the State for the Human Rights of Women - International Symposium
- Eastern Europe & Former Soviet Union
- Gender Equality - From WIDE
- Education - Part of 12 Critical Areas
- Beijing Platform for Action - International Women's Tribune
Center
- Education for Girls & Women - UNESCO
- Education for Girls & Women - UNESCO
Statement on the Right to Education at the UN Commission on
Human Rights 2005
- Egypt - Highest Islamic Law Authority
Says Women Cannot Lead Islamic Prayer Service That Includes
Both Men & Women
- Europe - Conference - Gendering Democracy
In An Enlarged Europe
- European Parliament Adopts Resolution
on the Situation of Roma in the European Union
- European Women's Lobby News - Trafficking
Prevention; Structural Funds - Gender & NGO Attention in
Regulations
- European Women's Lobby Statement - International
Women's Day 2005 - Beijing + 10
- Female Deaths In Tsunami Far Outnumber
Males - Oxfam Study
- Female Genital Mutilation - International
Conference - Africa - Developing A Political, Legal & Social
Environment To Implement the Maputo Protocol
- Female Genital Mutilation/FGM - Eradication
Interventions - Sexuality Rights vs. Cultural Relativism -
From AWID
- Femmes Africa Solidarite
- FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) & Traditional
Practices - UN NGO Committee on the Status of Women - Geneva
- French Government Launches "Partners for
Beijing Initiative"
- Gender & HIV/AIDS - E-Discussion Group
on Sexual & Reproductive Health for HIV Positive Women
- Gender & ICT Awards - Deadline for
Applications April 30, 2005
- Gender - UN Research Report Indicates
Gender Not Systematically Integrated Into Structural Adjustment,
Economic Liberalization, Democratization, Ethnic Conflicts
- Gender, Conflict, & Development -
World Bank Report
- Gender, Sexuality, & Criminal Laws
in the Middle East & North Africa - WWHR Study - Review
by AWID
- GenderIT.org - Gender & ICT Policy
Monitor; English & Spanish Introduction
- Girls - Right to Education - From the
Global Campaign for Education
- Girls' Education - Challenges - New UNICEF
Report
- Global Campaign on Violence Against Women:
A Global Health Emergency; May 28 - International Day of Action
for Women's Health
- ICRW Report on Women's Property & Inheritance
Rights - HIV/AIDS - Sub-Sahara Africa
- ICRW Research Report: TOWARD ACHIEVING
GENDER EQUALITY & EMPOWERING WOMEN
- India - Andhra Pradesh Province to Promote
Female Children -Current India Gender Imbalance
- India - Case Example of Gender Discrimination
on Land Rights
- India - Domestic Violence - UN Funded
4-Developing Country Study
- India - Homeless Women & Children
- Human Rights Violations - Article by UN Special Rapporteur
on Adequate Housing
- India - Honor Killings
- India - Honor Killings (318 lines)
From: Lois A Herman <Mosie@INFIONLINE.NET>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:14:40 -0500
- India - Preference for Boys - Sex Ratio
- Ultrasound +
- India - Wives of "Disappeared" - Victimization
- No Clear Widow Rights as Inheritance & Property - Conflicts
Raise Numbers
- Indigenous Women - Beijing Declaration
of Indigenous Women
- INSTRAW - Education & Training of
Women - Beijing + 10 Review
- International Free Women's Foundation
- "WOMAN - Many Faces, Many Tongues, Many Sounds, Many Colors,
Many Ideas, Many Realities"
- International Gender & Trade Network
- IGTN - New, Redesigned Website
- International Labour Organization - ILO
- Women, Labour/Work, Status of Women, Human Rights, Equality
- Iran - Many Family Magazines Reinforce
Conservative Women's Roles & Relations in the Family & Society
- Iran - Women's Committee - Organization
for Defending Victims of Violence
- Iraq - Iraqi Women National Assembly Important
Presence/Representation - Quota System - New Power Possibilities
for Women of Iraq
- Iraq - Women Members of New Iraq Assembly
Represent Diversified Perspectives for Women's Rights
- IRCT - Women & Torture - International
Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
- Kenya - Association of Media Women in
Kenya
- Kenya - Inheritance Rights - Issues of
Widows - Women's Human Rights
- Kuwait - Initial Parliament Backing to
Law Allowing Women to Vote & Run for Office in Municipal
Council Elections; Full Approval Yet to be Decided
- Lebanon & Region - CRTD Calls for
Interns & Volunteers - Summer & Fall 2005
- Lebanon - Middle East/Maghreb - CRTD -
Gender & Communication - Second Regional Training Seminar
- MADRE Sisters Without Borders Professional
Volunteer Program - Selected Countries
- Media Images of Girls & Women - Website
References - "Turn Beauty Inside Out" - Mind on the Media
- Mexico - Murdered Women of Juarez - Five
Men Arrested; Around 350 Women Killed Over 8 Years
- Mexico/US - Prostitution & Trafficking
- Sobering Realities - Victimization - Human Rights Violations
- Middle East & North Africa - Comparative
Study of Gender, Sexuality, & Criminal Laws
- Nepal - Maternal & Infant Death
Rate Affected by Internal Conflict
- Nepal - Social & Human Rights Issues
- Women - WOREC
- Nepal - Widows Conference - May - Nepal
Single Women Group / Widows Website
- Nepal -Women & Girls - Rape - Torture
- Disappearances - Rule of Law Concerns - Human Rights Abuses
- Network for European Women's Rights
Final Conference - NEWR
- New Discussion ListServe for ESCR-Net & Programme
on Women's Ecconomic, Social & Cultural Rights/PWESCR
- Nigeria - Northern Nigeria Human Rights
Violations Under Shari'a Law - Human Rights Watch Report -
Discrimination Against Women
- Norway - Action Plan Against Forced
Marriages
- Norway - FOKUS Forum for Women & Development
- Norway - Gender Equality - Companies
Must Meet Parliament Established Quotas for Company Boards
- Norway - The Norwegian Alternative Report
- Beijing + 10
- OMCT Statement at UN Sub-Commission
on Human Rights - Women & Girls - References Include Crimes
of Honor, Trafficking, CEDAW +
- OMCT-World Organization Against Torture
- Statement Against Violence & Torture of Women at UN Human
Rights Commission 2005
- Pacific Women's Network Against Violence
Against Women
- Pakistan - Gender & Suststainable
Development - Policy, Research, Advocacy - SDPI
- Pakistan - Gender-Sensitive Print Media
Code & Report on Formulation of Code
- Pakistan - WUNRN-SHADO Pakistan Workshop
Declaration; Photos of Workshop & Village Site Visits
- Palestine - Amnesty International Report
Describes Compounded Victimization of PALESTINIAN WOMEN
- Poem - Dedicated to THE GIRL CHILD
- Poem - For Women & Girls - Educate
- Read - Write - Empower
- Poem - Portrait of a Woman
- Poem - Struggle for Universal Women's
Equality
- Poem - The Feminine Mystique
- Poem - The Girl Child Orphan
- Poem - The Widow
- Poem - The Widow (402 lines)
From: Lois A Herman <Mosie@INFIONLINE.NET>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:23:35 -0500
- Poem - TRAFFICKING - By Prof. Carole
Fontaine
- Poem/Song - Courage for Human Rights
- Dedicated to Women, Girls, All
- Pope Benedict XVI Will Preserve Sex
Abuse Law - News Release
- Poverty - Report of the UN Independent
Expert on Human Rights & Extreme Poverty to the UN Human
Rights Commission 2005
- Programme On Women's Economic, Social
And Cultural Rights
- Qatar - Woman of Royal Family Forcibly
Detained - Father's Disapproval of Desired Husband
- Refugee, Returnee, & Displaced Women & Children
- Need Consideration with the Millennium Development Goals
- Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children
- Release of Religion & Human Rights
Survey on Constitutions of 44 Muslim Countries - By US Commission
on International Religious Freedom
- RUSSIA - Young Girls Sold Into Prostitution & Porn
Industry By Parents, Pimps
- Saudi Arabia - Forced Marriage Banned
- SHADOW REPORTS
- SHADOW REPORTS (746 lines)
From: Lois A Herman <Mosie@INFIONLINE.NET>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 01:14:44 -0600
- Solomon Islands - Women Speak Out Against
Violence
- Spain - TV Documentary Notes One of
Five Women Suffered Sexual Abuse at Early Ages
- Statement on Violence Against Women
by Amnesty International & The Center for Women's Global
Leadership - UN Human Rights Commission 2005
- Sudan - Darfur - Rape as a Weapon of
War - Medecins Sans Frontieres Report 2005
- Sudan - Serious Gender Gap in Education
- Right to Education for Girls
- Sudan - UN Acting High Commissioner
for Refugees Describes Dire Needs in Sudan, Crises for Women & Girls
as Internally Displaced Persons & Refugees
- Sweden, US, Selected Countries, Coalition
Against Trafficking in Women - New Trafficking Prevention Project
- Trafficking & Prostitution - Coalition
Against Trafficking in Women, MAPP, CLEF, Statement at the
UN Human Rights Commission 2005
- Trafficking - Root Causes of Human Trafficking
in South Eastern Europe Not Being Addressed - Report by UNICEF,
OHCHR, OSCE/ODIHR
- Trafficking - USA: INTRODUCTION of PROPOSED
End Demand for Sex Trafficking Act of 2005
- Trafficking Resource Information/Program
- Rescue & Restore - USA
- Turkey - Action Alert to Eliminate Gender
Discrimination & Human Rights Violations in the New Turkish
Penal Code
- Turkey - Global - Crimes of Honor
- Turkey, Middle East, North Africa -
Two New Publications Online - Women for Women's Human Rights
- New Ways of Turkey
- Uganda - Domestic Relations Bill Under
Consideration Would Restrict Polygamy; Divided Public Opinion
- UK/Kurdish Women + Have Concerns on
Forced Marriages - Law & Gender Human Rights Issues
- Ukraine - Report - Gender Issues in
Ukraine: Challenges & Opportunities - From UNDP
- UN Announces 180 Countries Are Party
to CEDAW - 90% of UN Member Nations - March 18, 2005
- UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Makes Efforts to Address Sexual Exploitation & Abuse by
Peacekeeping Personnel
- UN General Assembly Millennium Development
Goals Summit 2005
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Database on Human Rights Education
- UN Human Rights Commission - Secretary-General & Human
Rights Structures of the UN - General Debate on Human Rights
of Women & the Gender Perspective
- UN Human Rights Commission 2005 Resolution
on the Right to Education
- UN Human Rights Commission 2005 Resolution
on VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- UN Human Rights Commission 2005 Resolution
on Women's Rights - Housing, Land, Property
- UN Human Rights Commission 2005 Resolutions
- Women - Children/Girls
- UN Human Rights Resolution on Extra-Judicial,
Summary, or Arbitrary Executions - Crimes of Honor - Gender
Identity - Minorities +++; VOTE TO COME - Document a Step Forward
for Human Rights
- UN International Covenant on Economic,
Social & Cultural Rights
- UN Millennium Development Goals
- UN Millennium Development Goals Country
Reports - Review for GENDER
- UN NGO Committee on the Status of Women
- Geneva
- UN NGO Committee on the Status of Women-Geneva
- Joint Statement to the Commission on Human Rights 2005
- UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service/NGLS
Invites NGO's to Submit Comments & Observations - DEADLINE
SOON - On UN Secretary-General's Report "In Larger Freedom" & Issues
of UN Millennium + 5 Summit
- UN Secretary-General's Millennium Summit
Report & Response Letter of Women's NGO's for More Gender
Equality Perspective, Priorities, & Outcomes
- UN Security Council Resolution 1325
on Women, Peace, & Security - Now Available in 65 Translations
- PeaceWomen
- UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing
Study/Report - Women & Adequate Housing, as a Component
of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living
- UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against
Women Addendum Report 2005 - Communications to/from Governments;
Importance & Procedures for UN Filing of Cases of Alleged
Human Rights Violations of Women & Girls
- UN-HABITAT, the United Nations Human
Settlements Programme - International Women's Day 2005 UN-HABITAT
Statement
- UNESCO - Women & Gender Equality
- Gender Mainstreaming - Gender, Cultural Diversity, & Pluralism
- UNIFEM Executive Director Gender Focus
Statement to Oslo Donors' Conference on Sudan
- United Nations - Procedures for Filing
Individual Complaints on Allegations of Violations of Human
Rights
- United Nations Documents Official Six
UN Language Translations
- United Nations Expert Group Meeting
to Discuss Challenges in Measuring Violence Against Women
- United Nations Human Rights Commission
2005 Resolution on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
- United Nations International Covenant, & Committee,
on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights - Consider Gender
Dimensions
- United Nations Secretary-General's Study
on Violence Against Women
- US - Survey for US Dept. of Defense
Reveals One in Seven Female Military Students Sexually Assaulted & One
in Two Sexually Harassed On Campus
- US - Violence Against Women Act - Importance
of Re-Authorization - Major Impact Also on Immigrant & Refugee
Immigrant Women in the United States - Full Primary Legislation
Text Posted for Reference
- USA - Anti Trafficking Program - Rescue & Restore
- Collaboration Strengths - Multilingual Trafficking Fact Sheets
- USA - Washington State - Legislators
Voted To Protect the Divorce Rights of Pregnant Women
- Verse - Human Rights Defenders
- Verse - Women of the World - Denounce
Violence & Exploitation - Embrace Our Value & Rights
- From Sexisme
- Vienna Conference - Civil Society Participation
in Muslim Countries - Gender Inclusion - Women without Borders
- Viet Nam - Committee for the Advancement
of Women in Viet Nam Reports Significant Improvement in the
Role & Status of Women
- Violence Against Women - Global Abuse & Discrimination
of Women - From Amnesty International
- Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies
- ISIS Review of CSW Women's Learning Partnership Symposium
- Patriarchy - Freedom of Religion or Belief - Traditions -
International Law
- Violence Against Women Policy/Research
Papers - From DCAF - Women & Children In An Insecure World
- Virtual International Women's University
- War/Conflict - Girls & Women Abducted & Forced
to Serve Soldiers - Sex & Labor Slaves - Save the Children
Report
- WHRnet - Gender Issues - UN Human Rights
Commission 2005
- WHRnet News Release from UN Human Rights
Commission 2005 - Geneva
- WIDE - Women in Development Europe -
Annual Conference 2005
- WILPF India Revitalized - Women's International
League for Peace & Freedom
- Women & Girls & ICT - WSIS Gender
Caucus - World Summit on the Information Society
- Women & Girls - Food - Health -
Poverty - Human Rights; Report of UN Special Rapporteur on
Right to Food to the UN Human Rights Commission 2005
- Women & Girls - Power of Information
- ICT in Multiple Forms - WSIS Gender Caucus
- Women & Girls - Right to Food -
Health - Poverty - UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food -
References
- Women & Housing Rights - From COHRE
- Centre On Housing Rights & Evictions
- Women In Black for Peace With Justice
- Women in Prison Documentary - Human
Rights Violations, Violence +, Amnesty International USA News
Release - France, Russia, Czech Republic, & USA Women in
Prison
- Women of the World 2005 Statistical
Report
- Women Victims of Wartime Sexual Violence
- Rights & Democracy Study - Africa - Call for Right to
Reparations for Victims
- Women's Influence on Public Policy & Governance
- From UNRISD
- Women's Rights & The MDG's - Address
by UN Deputy High Commissioner For Human Rights at International
Conference in Pakistan 2005
- Women's World Summit Foundation; World
Rural Women's Day & Prize
- Women, Natural Disaster, & Reconstruction
- From Women's Edge Coalition
- World Health Report 2005 - WHO - Make
Every Mother & Child Count
- World Programme for Human Rights Education
Resolution - UN Human Rights Commission 2005
- WUNRN CALLS FOR RELIABLE FACTS ON WOMEN & GIRLS
IN ALL COUNTRIES
- YOUNG WOMEN International Dialogue -
Organizing for Change
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