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Network Women in Development Europe

Network Women in Development Europe is a European network of development NGOs, gender specialists and human rights activists. WIDE monitors and influences international economic and development policy and practice from a feminist perspective. WIDE's work is grounded on women's rights as the basis for the development of a more just and democratic world order. WIDE strives for a world based on gender equality and social justice that ensures equal rights for all, as well as equal access to resources and opportunities in all spheres of political, social and economic life.

http://www.eurosur.org/wide/

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Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi Needs Your Help

In an ominous action, Iran has outlawed the Center for the Defense of Human Rights - an organization co-founded by Dr. Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Laureate and a hero for her work on rights for women and children. Iran has declared the organization illegal, claiming it did not have a proper permit, and is threatening to arrest Dr. Ebadi and the center staff for continuing their work on behalf of women and children. Please join feminists and human rights activists worldwide to support Shirin Ebadi and her work. Urge the United Nations to support Shirin Ebadi and the Iranian government to declare legal the Center for the Defense of Human Rights.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/feministmajority/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=5024&t=template2.dwt

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Pathway to Equality: CEDAW, Beijing and the MDGs (PDF)

This report examines the gender equality dimensions of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through the lens of two important global processes: the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Fourth World Conference of Women. The publication draws on the wealth of information and experience on gender equality issues that CEDAW and Beijing already provide, suggesting that this be used to complement the MDG agenda. It identifies specific ways in which the three frameworks correspond to and support each other, and suggests resources and entry points for engaging in the process. "Pathway to Gender Equality" was produced by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in partnership with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in anticipation of the ten-year review of progress in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action, commonly called Beijing+10.

http://www.unifem.org/filesconfirmed/216/385_PathwayToGenderEquality_screen.pdf

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Perwiridan

This article looks at perwiridan, religious women's groupings in Indonesia which allow women to participate in local governance in their own way. (Asima Siahaam, Just Change, July 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/jc6siahaam.pdf

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Philippines: A Nation in the Grip of a Grave Crisis, Implications on the Lives of Grassroots Women

Since the last quarter of 2004, a surge of killings, abductions and disappearances have swept the Philippines. This article tells of Esmeralda Ecat, a peasant woman leader from Leyte in the Visayas, that were subjected to torture for almost 24 hours in front of her two young children, and other women having their human rights violated by the military. (National Federation of Peasant Women - Philippines, 2005)

http://www.dontglobalisehunger.org/article_tfriw.php

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Power in Global Value Chains: Implications for employment and livelihoods in the cashew nut industry [pdf 615k]

This report explores the impacts of an expanding global market for cashew nuts on the livelihoods of women workers in the cashew processing industry and shows that a power imbalance between intensely competing producers and relatively few buyers in the global market place gives large retailers, namely supermarkets, the upper hand over their supply chains. Supermarkets are increasingly able to dictate the terms on which business is done and how the cashew is produced. Our survey of the women workers in this industry shows clearly that such work, while essential for survival, does not provide enough income to raise households out of poverty. This research is a good example of how international trade too often fails to provide the kind of economic growth which will foster secure and equitable employment and enable the working poor to escape from poverty. (K. N. Harilal, Nazneen Kanji, J. Jeyaranjan, Mridul Eapen and Padmini Swaminatha, IIED, April 2006)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/14514IIED.pdf

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Progress of the World's Women 2005

New economic report which investigates women's status in the context of globalization from the mid 1980s through the late 1990s. The report shows that only eight nations have successfully met global agreements to achieve both gender equality in secondary education enrollment and at least a 30 per cent share of women's seats in parliament.

http://www.un-ngls.org/women-2005.pdf

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Public Choices, Private Decisions: Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals

Sexual and reproductive health is crucial for the achievement of the MDGs. Access to family planning services; safe motherhood; prevention efforts as well as treatment of sexual transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS; and the elimination of gender violence would improve the lives of the poor and spur economic and social development. (UN Millennium Project, May 2006)

http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/srh_main.htm

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Reforming the World Bank: Will the new gender strategy make a difference? A study with China case examples.

This Study assesses the effectiveness and potential effectiveness of the Bank's Gender Strategy and recommends how to strengthen the Strategy. It describes how gender advocates inside the Bank have been trying to engender Bank investments and other initiatives over the last 25 years but their success has been limited. In September 2001, the World Bank Board of Executive Directors endorsed the Gender Strategy that this Study analyzes. The Study examines the Gender Strategy's strengths, weaknesses and implementation track record. This Study also analyzes the updated Bank Gender Operational Policy (OP) and an accompanying Bank Procedure (BP)to facilitate policy implementation that the Bank Board endorsed in 2003.Elaine Zuckerman, President Gender Action with Wu Qing, President, China Women's Health Network and inputs by Aida Orgocka and Hilary Sims Feldstein. Heinrich Böll Foundation 2003.

http://www.genderaction.org/images/ga%20gender%20bank.pdf#search=%22Reforming%20the%20World%20Bank%3A%20Will%20the%20new%20gender%20strategy%20make%20a%20difference%3F%20A%20study%20with%20China%20case%20examples.%22

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Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to education

A report or the right of girls to education, originally intended for the Commission on Human Rights will now be presented to the new Human Rights Council by Vernor Muñoz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education The Special Rapporteur addresses the socio-cultural context of gender discrimination by defining the concept of patriarchalism, which underpins discriminatory behaviours. He denounces the negative impact on education, and especially on girls' education, of the persistent consideration of education as being a service rather than a human right and insists on the importance of ensuring not only girls' access to school but also their completion of the education cycle. The report identifies obstacles to education for girls, such as early marriages and pregnancies, child labour (especially domestic work) and armed conflicts. His report covers social and cultural context of gender discrimination including standardised education and patriarchal attitudes and inequalities; girls' education and the economy; the long road to gender equality; universal primary education and its impact on gender balance; from equal access to total equality; on working girls; on marriage, pregnancy and motherhood as well as girls from communities that experience discrimination; communication with governments; education policy and classroom reality from individual challenges to collective responsibilities; and sex education He devotes a chapter to girls in armed conflicts and makes 25 recommendations. (Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, United Nations, written 14 December 2004, presented 31 March 2006)

http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/docs/61chr/E.CN.4.2005.50.pdf

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Rwanda: The Impacts of Women Legislators on Policy Outcomes Affecting Children and Families

This paper provides a brief background on changing gender roles in Rwanda and in women's parliamentary representation, and highlights several of the factors that led to the election of women in such large numbers in 2003 (UNICEF, December 2006).

http://www.unicef.org/sowc07/docs/powley.pdf

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Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba

Fidel Castro has been quoted as saying, "the most radical thing the Cuban) Revolution has done are the changes now occurring among women." This is a reveiw of a book which analyses the transformation of the lives of Cuban women from the start of the Revolution in 1959 to its denouement in the 1990s. (Julio Cesar Pino, Journal of Third World Studies, Fall 1997)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_199710/ai_n8771169

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Sociolegal Status of Women in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand

Are laws the answer to achieving gender equality? What are the complex interactions of civil, religious and customary laws that shape women?s status? This publication provides a discussion of these complex issues and offers some answers to these questions. It is based on an ADB regional technical assistance (RETA) that consolidates findings and recommendations of four country studies together with an overview study. The four country studies of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines revealed that existing laws in many DMCs continue to discriminate against women. These laws can constrain women from achieving their full potential to participate equally in all spheres of economic, political and social life. Following the country assessments, the publication suggests relevant steps that governments and civil society groups need to take to amend discriminatory laws. Recommendations for further actions by governments, civil society groups, and ADB include the need for training judges, lawyers and law enforcement personnel in gender-sensitisation and support for the improved collection of data on women's sociological status.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Studies/Sociolegal_Status_Women/default.asp

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Stamp out domestic violence

Governments all over the world could take 14 simple steps to stamp out domestic violence. Distribute this information and send it to your government.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/svaw-14points-eng

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State of the World's Children 2008

The State of the World's Children 2008 assesses the state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns and children today. These issues serve as sensitive barometers of a country's development and wellbeing and as evidence of its priorities and values. Investing in the health of children and their mothers is a human rights imperative and one of the surest ways for a country to set its course towards a better future (UNICEF 2008).

http://www.unicef.org/sowc08/docs/sowc08.pdf

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Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP)

TGNP is committed to facilitating social transformation leading to the creation of a vibrant Tanzanian society. It seeks to promote gender equality and social equity through the empowerment of women and other marginalised sections of the community. The organisation strives to enhance the mainstreaming of gender at all levels of society from grassroots communities to the highest levels of national policy making and legislation.

http://www.tgnp.org

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The AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development

From November 14-17, 2008, up to 1,500 women's rights leaders and activists from around the world will converge on Cape Town, South Africa at the 11th AWID International Forum to discuss the power of movements.

http://www.awid.org/forum08/

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The brief describes three innovative initiatives to get girls out of work and into school in China, India and the Philippines. These initiatives incor

The 30 page report describes three innovative initiatives to get girls out of work and into school in China, India and the Philippines. These initiatives incorporate methods such as training girls to be peer educators; direct assistance to cover education costs; incorporating life skills and sex education; creating participatory "girl-friendly" environments and outreach education for communities; community mobilisation against bonded labour; training local girl-child activists to educate communities. The brief sets out key actions required to increase girls' participation in education. (UNESCO Bankok, 2006)

http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/appeal/gender/pdf/girls.pdf

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The Fair Trade Zone

On October 18, 2004 the Nueva Vida Women's Sewing Cooperative (COMAMNUVI) in Nicaragua received certification as a free trade zone. However, the women worker/owners describe it as as much a "fair trade zone". They produce clothing made out of organic cotton for a chain in the US, and their certification as the world's first worker owned free trade zone means that they can compete on an equal footing - tax breaks, duty free import and export - with traditional "sweatshops" while providing just pay, fair working conditions, and worker control of the workplace. The women have worked their way out of poverty, and are now contributing some of the profits towards social projects in the community, once devastated by Hurricane Mitch. Their website explains how their success came about, the concepts of free and fair trade zones, and how to buy the products via the web.

http://www.fairtradezone.jhc-cdca.org/index.htm

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The Global Women's Rights Movement: Power Politics around the United Nations and the World Social Forum

This paper examines the discourse, inputs and reorganization of strategies that emanated from the lobbying of women's rights movements vis-à-vis global agencies like the United Nations (UN), as well as the World Social Forum. Harcourt sets out some key strategic questions for consideration: How much have women's movements achieved by working in collaboration with the UN? Is there a recognizable global women's rights movement as it is perceived on the UN stage? Is there such an entity as a global women's movement, or is it just a skilfully played mirage? (Wendy Harcourt, UNRISD, 1 August 2006)

http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BF3C2/setLanguageCookie?OpenAgent&langcode=en&url=/80256B3C005BCCF9/search/59E3AF8FB95F929FC1257230002F43C1?OpenDocument

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The intersection of caste and women's rights in India

An article from AWID on caste and gender discrimination in India (Rochelle Jones, AWID, 26 October 2007)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/AWID%20Friday%20File.doc

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The land is ours! How India's women farmers are becoming a force for change

Women farmers have become a dominant force throughout India, as more and more men migrate to earn money. Yet the slow pace of land and property rights reform has failed to keep up. Although women may have more rights on paper than they did 20 years ago, there has been little progress on the ground. (Keya Acharya, Panos Features, 3 April 2006)

http://www.panos.org.uk/global/featuredetails.asp?featureid=1239&ID=1005

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The Missionary Position

In this article the author looks at what it means for Muslim women today to be saddled with what she calls the "burden of pity" from disparate quarters. Muslim women are used as pawns by Islamist movements that make the control of women's lives a foundation of their retrograde agenda, and by Western governments that use them as an excuse for building empire. Instead, what Muslim women need is the end of their treatment as a silent, helpless mass of undifferentiated beings who think alike and face identical problems. Recognising that each country and each society has its own unique issues, and tackling the underdevelopment of many Muslim societies would go a long way toward reducing inequities. Hugely unhelpful towards this is the work of Muslim women Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji, which, this article argues, is "riddled with inaccuracies and generalizations". (Laila Lalami, The Nation, 16 June 2006)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060619/lalami

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Tostan

Tostan is an international, non-governmental organization based in Senegal, West Africa. Tostan empowers African communities to take charge of their own development. The mission of Tostan is to contribute to the human dignity of African people through the development and implementation of a non-formal, participatory education program in national languages.

http://www.tostan.org/

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Transforming the National AIDS Response: Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Women's Human Rights into the 'Three Ones'

This UNIFEM guide highlights a number of approaches and presents case studies of successful initiatives that demonstrate how incorporating a gender equality perspective into HIV and AIDS programmes and policies can transform national responses to the AIDS pandemic.

http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/TransformingTheNationalAIDSResponse_eng.pdf

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