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Mongolia: Public budgets must finance more women's shelters

Gender-based discrimination has led to inadequate levels of support for women victims of violence in the family in Mongolia. Write to the Prime Minister, Miegombyn Enkhbold, and Minister of Social Welfare and Labour, Luvsangiin Odonchimed, asking them to allocate funds without delay for new and existing women's shelters.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/mng-251106-shelteraction-eng

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No Safe Place: Burma's Army and the Rape of Ethnic Women [pdf]

"I have waited many years to tell you this story," one Karenni woman lamented as she told of witnessing her thirteen-yearold sister's rape and then described how the Burmese soldiers beat and attempted to rape her. She is just one of countless women from Burma's ethnic minority groups, sometimes known as ethnic nationalities, with a chilling tale of abuse at the hands of her country's army. (Refugeees International, 2003)

http://www.refugeesinternational.org/files/3023_file_no_safe_place.pdf

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Pakistan: Panah needs your support

An estimated 80 per cent of all Pakistani women suffer violence in the home, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Amnesty International has documented dozens of cases of "honour" killings, acid burning, rape, incest, mutilations (including cutting off the nose and breasts), severe verbal abuse and economic deprivation. Some of these women end up at Panah - literally "shelter"- where they have access to free legal aid, medical care and counselling. The Panah shelter is looking for a new home - its current premises have been requested back by the owners. Panah needs to move to a safe and affordable location by the end of 2007. The fate of the women who remain on the premises must not be jeopardized.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/pak-251106-shelteraction-eng

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Partners in Change: Working with Men to End Gender-Based Violence

The papers in this volume explore the different kinds of partnerships for ending gender-based violence, and men's roles and responsibilities within these. These roles in and responsibilities for change range across the spectrum, from men changing their relationships with their intimate partners to male-dominated institutions changing the way they function in order to better confront issues of gender and violence. Some of the individual, institutional and structural changes that are required are discussed in this volume, as are ways in which men can become partners, with each other and with women, in making these changes. INSTRAW 2002

http://www.un-instraw.org/en/docs/publications/mensroles.pdf

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Peace with sexual violence is still war!

Terrible, unspeakable things have been done to the women of DR Congo.There can be no satisfaction in claiming a truce or a peace treaty which is soaked in the carnage of the women of the land says Sstephen Lewis.

http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/6739.html

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Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq

A groundbreaking report on the incidence, causes, and legalisation of gender-based violence in Iraq since the US-led invasion. Amidst the chaos and violence of US-occupied Iraq, women have increasingly been targeted. This report documents the use of gender-based violence by Iraqi Islamists, brought to power by the US overthrow of Iraq's secular Ba'ath regime, and highlights the role of the United States in fomenting the human rights crisis confronting Iraqi women today.

http://www.madre.org/articles/me/iraqreport.pdf

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Property Ownership & Inheritance Rights of Women for Social Protection- The South Asia Experience - the South Asia experience (PDF)

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2006. This multi-site, comparative study was conducted in two states of India (West Bengal and Kerala) and Sri Lanka -two South Asian countries with diverse contexts in terms of women's access to and ownership of property, i.e. land and/or house. This report brings together the results of the three site studies and a cross-site analysis that points to certain similarities and differences that emerge from the analysis of the three sites. The cross-site report also proposes a potential framework of pathways, and accompanying factors by which women's ownership of property influences their experience of domestic violence.

http://www.icrw.org/docs/2006_propertyrights-southasia.pdf

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights aspects of the vicitms of trafficking

This report is submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council decision 1/102. It covers the period January-December 2006. This report focuses on forced marriage and gives a thematic study on forced marriages in the context of trafficking in persons (UN Special Rapporteur, Sigma Huda, 2007)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/SRTraffickingReporttoUN2007-00011.doc

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Responding to Violence Against Women: How Development Interventions Address the Issue of Gender-based Violence

The paper highlights the shortcomings of current development policies to tackle violence against women, and proposes a new framework from a body politics approach to address violence against women. (United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, Research Paper-series "New Voices, New Perspectives", March 2006)

http://www.un-instraw.org/en/images/stories/NewVoices/nv-sobrino.pdf

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Sign up to stop violence against women

One in every three women is abused in her lifetime... How many women do you know? Together we can change this. Join our campaign. Commit yourself, say... I will stand up, speak out, and demand action from my family, friends, community, and government to Stop Violence Against Women. It's in our hands!

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/pledge-index-eng

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The Shame of War: sexual violence against women and girls in violence

On 8 March 2007 - International Women's Day - IRIN launched 'The Shame of War: sexual violence against women and girls in conflict' simultaneously in New York, Nairobi and Geneva. This publication is a reference book as well as photo essay of portraits and testimonies of the sexual violence women suffer when men go to war (IRIN News, 8 March 2007).

http://www.irinnews.org/pdf/sow/IRIN-TheShameofWar-fullreport-Mar07.pdf

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United Nations System Efforts to Address Violence Against Women

This CRS report for Congress "provides an overview of recent U.N. efforts to address VAW by the Secretary-General and highlights key U.N. interagency efforts. The report also discusses selected U.N. funds, programs, and agencies that address international violence against women. It does not measure the extent to which VAW is directly addressed or is part of a larger initiative or program. This report will be updated as events warrant."

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34518_20080603.pdf

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Venezuela: Three shelters are not enough

In Venezuela, many organizations are actively trying to change the dire situation for women in violent relationships. Until more shelters are set up in Venezuela, however, most women fleeing violence at home will find neither safety nor support. Only three domestic violence shelters currently exist in Venezuela's 336 municipalities in 24 states. Although the law, in theory, protects women from domestic violence in Venezuela, most women also have to face social and institutional prejudices because of the abuse to which they have been subjected. Take action! Write to the Minister of Popular Participation and Social Development to urgently support INAMUJER's negotiations with the municipalities to establish a minimum of one domestic violence shelter in each of the 24 states and support the three existing shelters with funding.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/ven-251106-shelteraction-eng

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Violence against women and justice denied in Mexico State

This report reveals further evidence of the Mexico State authority's failure to seriously investigate at least 23 reports of sexual abuse committed by security forces in San Salvador Atenco during police operations 5 months ago. The Mexico State has even attempted to cover up evidence of such abuse. The women were amongst 211 people arrested during a two day police operation in the towns of Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State. The operation aimed to stop protests by a local peasant farmer organization "Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra". To date, seven women and 21 men remain in custody. (Amnesty International, 5 October 2006)

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR410282006

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Violence and discrimination against women in the armed conflict in Colombia

This report analyzes the discrimination and violence against women in the context of the Colombian armed conflict. This report is based on the results of the on-site visit to Colombia undertaken by the former Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women of the IACHR, Ms. Susana Villarán, between June 20-25, 2005. The primary objective of the visit was to assess the impact of the armed conflict on Colombian women and to receive information about the legislative, policy, institutional and judicial measures taken by the State to safeguard the rights of women within this sociopolitical context. (Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, October 2006)

http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/ColombiaMujeres06eng/Informe%20Colombia%20Mujeres%20Ing.pdf

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WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women

This report covers 15 sites and 10 countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Peru, Namibia, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand and the United Republic of Tanzania. Report findings document the prevalence of intimate partner violence and its association with women's physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health. Data is included on non-partner violence, sexual abuse during childhood and forced first sexual experience. Information is also provided on women's responses: Whom do women turn to and whom do they tell about the violence in their lives? Do they leave or fight back? Which services do they use and what response do they get? The report concludes with 15 recommendations to strengthen national commitment and action on violence against women. Data from the report show that violence against women is widespread and demands a public health response. (WHO, 2005)

http://www.who.int/gender/violence/who_multicountry_study/en/index.html

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Why Aren't We Shocked?

We have become so accustomed to living in a society saturated with misogyny that violence against females is more or less to be expected. The startling aspect of the recent Pennsylvania school shooting was that this terrible thing happened at a school in Amish country, not that it happened to girls. The disrespectful, degrading, contemptuous treatment of women in the media and adverstising is so pervasive and so mainstream that it has just about lost its ability to shock. (Bob Herbert, The New York Times, 16 October 2006)

http://www.madre.org/about/VAW.NYTOPED.10.06.html?tr=y&auid=2074389

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Women Against Violence

WAV seeks to address the problem of domestic violence and the paucity of support services for abused Arab women in Israel.

http://www.wavo.org

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Women, Slums and Urbanisation: Examining the Causes and Consequences

This report, based on COHRE's research in six global cities (Accra, Buenos Aires, Colombo, Mumbai, Nairobi, and Sao Paulo) also found that violence against women is rampant in urban slums across the world.

http://www.cohre.org/store/attachments/Urbanisation_Report.pdf

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Women, violence and empowerment: the world we live in

The systemic, worldwide degradation of girl children makes the Commission on the Status of Women meeting at the United Nations a vital event, says Patricia Daniel. (Open Democracy, 23 February 2007)

http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-africa_democracy/women_violence_4379.jsp

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Women, violence and health

The epidemic of violence directed at women and girls constitutes a major human rights scandal and a public health crisis. The paper reviews the forms that gender-based violence takes, the contexts in which it occurs and the health consequences of violence against women. The paper ends with some recommendations for action by governments and professional bodies. (Amnesty International, 18 February 2005)

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT770012005?open&of=ENG-398

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