Week
of 09-25-2006

• Trafficking – Nordic Council Experts Consider Issues to Combat Trafficking
• Africa – Traditional Birth Attendants
• Trafficking & Armed Conflict – UNIFEM
• Scholarship References
• Latvia Woman President is Candidate for Next UN Secretary-General
• World Development Report 2007: Development & the Next Generation – Gender
• Zambia & Ghana – Nearly Half of Young Women Cannot Read – Report
• Iran – Law – Children with Iranian Mother & Foreign Father Can Now Have Iran Citizenship
• Afghanistan-Kandahar – Assassination of Provincial Director of Women’s Affairs
• Trends in Government Support for Non-Governmental Organizations – UNRISD
• Investigating Nonconsensual Sex & Adolescents’ Health & Rights + Research References
• Japan – More Japanese Women Marrying Later, and to Younger Men
• Female Genital Mutilation Fact Sheet – World Health Organization
• Women & War Photos – ICRC
• Education for Children in Conflict-Affected Countries – The Girl Child
• Turkey – For Women By Women Photographers Address Violence Against Women – New Exhibit
• Afghanistan – Home Classes to Educate Girls as Insurgents Attack Schools
• European Women’s Lobby Advocates for Rights of Women & Girls With Disabilities
• Latin America – Women Lawmakers Find Strength in Unity of Women’s Caucuses
• Aid Effectiveness – Monitoring – Paris Declaration – Gender
• CEDAW Country Reports
• UK – Josephine Butler – Historical Force Against Sexual Exploitation of Women – London Exhibit
• Research-Africa’s AIDS Orphans + Youth Poverty in Europe – Call for Gender Disaggregated Data & Research
• Poem & Art – Woman’s Individuality
• Tajikistan – Public School Photo – Challenges of Education for Girls
• United Nations Gender Equality Architecture – UN Coherence Panel
• Qatar – First Shelter for Domestic Abuse Victims
• USA-Teenage Girls Trying Drugs, Alcohol, Cigarettes at Higher Rates Than Boys-Research
• Trafficking – Photos – Images of Human Trafficking – Gender
• Status of Country Ratifications of United Nations Treaties
• 25th Anniversary Commemoration of 1981 UN Declaration on Religion or Belief
• Gender Sensitive Budgets – Strategies in Brazil & Chile
• UN SG’s Study on Violence Against Children to be Presented at UN GA Third Committee
• Georgia – Violence Against Women in the Family – Amnesty International Report
• Women Living With War-Literary, Academic, & Creative Works-Women’s Realities in War & Peace
• Africities Conference – Women Building Democracy – MDG’s – Women in Governance
• Afghanistan – Violence Against Women – Crimes of Honor – Report
• UN Human Rights Council Reports – Housing, Education, Sale of Children – Gender
• Papua New Guinea – Violence Against Women – AI Report
• United Nations General Assembly – Website, Background, Overview
• Turkey-Statement on Nexus of Religion & Women’s Rights-Directorate of Turkey Religious Affairs
• India – Sati – Banned but Still Exists
• NATO HQ Pre-Deployment Gender Workshops
• Kyrgyzstan-Domestic Abuse & Bride-Kidnapping-Laws Need Enforcement-Human Rights Watch Report
• World Rural Women’s Day – October 15, 2006
• European Union – Gender Mainstreaming & Its Consequences in the EU
• Millennium Development Goals Report Statistical Annex – Gender
• Women Human Rights Defenders Day-November 29, 2006-16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence
• China-Russia Women’s Culture Week – Year of Russia in China
• State of the World’s Mothers 2006 – Saving the Lives of Mothers & Newborns – Report
• CEDAW Committee Adopted Statements
• Africa Great Lakes Region – Women Building Peace & Good Neighbourliness Institute Statement
• World YWCA
• Mexico – Continued Abduction & Murder of Women in Ciudad Juarez & Chihuahua City
• Urgent Action Fund – Rising Up in Response: Women’s Rights Activism in Conflict
• Tunisia – Headscarf Conflicts
• Female Genital Cutting – Cultural Issues & Social Norms – Breaking the Silence – Petition
• Confucians – Women Recognized as Equal for First Time in 2500 Years
• Czech Republic – Issue of Coercive Sterilisation of Romani Women
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Signatures, Ratificat
• CaucAsia Magazine August 2006 – Gender & Health

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