Women’s United Nations Report Network: Week of 10-23-06
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: January 8, 2006
Week
of 10-23-2006
- EU Gender Watch
- Bahrain – Women Election Candidates Receiving Pressures to Withdraw
- Women & Faith-Based Development-Mixing Morality & Money-Conference-Oxford University-Call for Papers
- Somalia – Court Bans Women from Swimming at Beach in Somalia Capital
- Tunisia – Authorities Launch Campaign Against Veil-Headscarf
- Women’s Sports Hall of Fame Museum
- UN Special Rapporteur on Sale of Children, Child Prostitution & Child Pornography – Mandate
- Jordan – Unemployed Refugee Women Face Poverty
- India – One Dowry Death Reported Every 77 Minutes; Dowry Illegal but Continues
- Israel – Stronger Human Trafficking Law Approved
- Turkey – Honour Killings
- Women, Remittances & Development
- Gender & Peacebuilding Training Programme
- Armenia – International Conference on Domestic Violence
- International Alliance of Women
- Workshop for Women on Conflict, Leadership, Post-Conflict +
- Iran President Calls for Baby Boom & Women’s Traditional Roles
- Economic Reforms – Structural Adjustment – Overview & Impacts for Gender
- Nepal – Trafficking of Women & Children from Nepal – Report 2006
- Poem – Women of Strength
- European Women’s Lobby Plans Seminar on the Empowerment & Integration of EU Immigrant Women
- Afghanistan – Taking Stock Update Report: Afghan Women & Girls Five Years On
- European Parliament Committee on Women’s Rights Resolution on Impact of International Trade on Women
- Thailand – Gated Community for Widows
- United Nations – International Law
- Israel – Arab Women – Welfare to Work – Program Needs Assessment Report
- Violence Against Women & The Millennium Development Goals – Article
- Domestic Violence Information in Multiple Languages – Hot Peach Pages
- Canada – Polygamy – Study Commissioned by Canada Justice Department – International Law
- Trafficking-Resignation of US Ambassador John Miller-Director, Office to Monitor & Combat Trafficking in Persons
- Canada – Polygyny & Canada’s Obligations Under International Human Rights Law
- India – New Law on Domestic Violence – Statistics on Violence Against Women in India
- Egypt – Helwan University – Controversy on Veil in Women’s Residences
- USA – New Poll on Recognition of Domestic Violence
- Art Sculpture & Poem Honoring Woman Martyr of Afghanistan
- Inter-American Commission of Women – Organization of American States
- Indigenous Feminism
- United Nations Peacebuilding Commission – Gender – Security Council Resolution 1325
- Burma – Women’s League of Burma Demands End to War Crimes – Women & Girl Victims of Rape +
- UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2007 – Gender
- Sexuality, Gender & Rights Institute – New York – CREA
- UN Security Council Highlights Women’s Role in Peace Process
- Call for Nominations – 2007 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders
- Women’s Social Rights & Entitlements Book – Women’s Rights in Europe Book Series
- Zimbabwe Launches Ground-Breaking National Girls Education Strategic Plan
- 6th Anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace & Security
- Harmful Traditional Practices – UNIFEM – FGM – Dowry – Honour Killings – Early Marriage
- UN General Assembly 2006 Report on Internally Displaced Persons – Gender
- Uzbekistan – Laws Give Women Equal Rights, but State Institutions Create Challenges for Divorce
- ICT & Women’s Empowerment – WSIS Success Stories
- Women’s Rights in the Middle East & North Africa – Arabic & English Translations – Freedom House
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