June 24, 2018 - https://latestnews.network/eu-leaders-rush-in-to-brussels-for-emergency-talks-as-migration-plunges-bloc-into-crisis-world-news/ EU LEADERS MIGRATION SUMMIT – GENDER EQUALITY?? European Union leaders pose for a group photo at the start of an emergency European Union leaders summit on immigration at the EU Commission headquarters . Learn More
Power & Protection: Defending Rights in Hostile Contexts – Gender
Power & Protection: Defending Rights in Hostile Contexts This resource is the product of a collaboration between JASS and the Fund for Global Human Rights. In 2017, we co-convened diverse activists, international human rights and protection organizations and donors from around the world in Mexico and in Johannesburg to discuss the . Learn More
Lebanon – Profile of Young Woman & Forced Marriage
SB OverSeas is a humanitarian organisation working in Lebanon to provide access to education. They are strictly against the practice of child marriage which affects many of the girls in our schools and work to keep them in education. Read more about our work here: www.sboverseas.org Written by Kevin Charbel, Project Manager in Saida, Lebanon SB . Learn More
Tanzania – Widows’ Compounded Discrimination – Stripped of Land – Need Support
By Dr. Monica Mhoja, Landesa Tanzania Program Director June 2018 - THE WORD “KUTULIJIWA” is one I was familiar with growing up in northern Tanzania. In the Sukuma language, it means an outcast, a person banned from a community for being a witch. Over the course of my career as an attorney, it is also a word that I have often heard used to . Learn More
Egypt – Continued Charges, Judicial Harassment, of Ms. Mozn Hassan, Director-Nazra for Feminist Studies – Women’s Rights Defender
http://www.siawi.org/article17432.html Mozn Hassan plays a key role in the work of WHRD’s-Women Human Rights Defenders to improve the situation of women in Egypt and in the region. She and Nazra for Feminist Studies, have been working on multiple women's issues since 2001, including violence against women in the public sphere, providing . Learn More
Obstetric Fistula – Causes, Discrimination & Treatment – Camp – Sierra Leone
Women and girls celebrating after their successful fistula repair surgeries at the Aberdeen Women’s Centre in Freetown © UNFPA Sierra Leone 2018/Angelique Reid UNFPA – 12 June 2018 FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – “When I became pregnant in December 2016, I never attended a health clinic,” said 19-year-old Katimu Kanneh. “I drank traditional . Learn More
Victims Behind Bars: Identifying & Addressing the Sex Trafficking of Women
By Barbara Granner, National Commission on Correctional Health Care 06/25/2018 The stereotypical “prostitute” as portrayed in movies and TV shows is a tough, hardened, street-smart professional. According to experts who spoke at the Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care in April, that image is far from reality. In fact, between 80% . Learn More
Journey of Hope & Resilience – Photo Exhibit – Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Photo Credit: Olly Burn By Eliza Theiss March 26, 2018 - The everyday heroes behind the ShelterBox disaster-relief organization have partnered up with four of the world’s leading photographers to pay tribute to the extraordinary strength, hope and resilience of people facing severe adversity. Photographers Veronique de Vigurie, Olly . Learn More
Venezuela – Continued Impunity Amidst Serious Human Rights Situation – OAS & UN Reports – Protracted Crises for Women
Direct Link to Full 63-Page 2018 Report: https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/VE/VenezuelaReport2018_EN.pdf Venezuela - Continued Impunity Amidst Dismal Human Rights Situation - UN Report Spanish - GENEVA (22 June 2018) – A UN Human Rights report published on Friday spotlights the failure of Venezuelan authorities to hold accountable . Learn More
Mother Schools: Parenting for Peace, Against Violent Extremism
The Women Without Borders core focus is its pioneering ‘MotherSchools: Parenting for Peace’ Model, which has been strengthening local, national, and global security for over a decade. This bottom-up security approach positions civil society to address the dangers of extremism while fostering dialogue between local stakeholders and global . Learn More
Kenya – How Outlawing FGM in Kenya Has Driven It Underground & Led to Its Medicalization
Damaris Seleina Parsitau*- June 19, 2018 The fight against female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has been fraught with both success and failure, resistance and acceptance. Since Kenya banned the practice in 2011, FGM/C is now increasingly conducted underground, secretly in homes or in clinics by healthcare providers and workers. The . Learn More
EU – Parliament Gender-Sensitivity Assessment
http://eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming/toolkits/gender-sensitive-parliaments - Assessment http://eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming/toolkits/gender-sensitive-parliaments/faq/what-tool . Learn More
Redefining Peace: Interlinkages of Conflict, Gender, & SRHR
Direct Link to Full 31-Page 2018 Publication: http://arrow.org.my/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ARROW-TP-SRHR_SP_WEB.pdf This thematic paper unpacks and examines the gendered impact of conflict on women and girls in Asia and on their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) through a feminist lens. In situations of conflict women and . Learn More
Standing with Rohingya Women – Video by Nobel Women
Around the time of World Refugee Day, we are spotlighting the plight of the Rohingya people with the ONLINE PREMIERE of our Standing with Rohingya Women short film. This five minute film follows our February delegation to Bangladesh with Nobel Peace laureates Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi, and Mairead Maguire, in partnership with Bangladeshi . Learn More
USA – President Trump Changes Policy at the Mexico Border to Keep Families Together in Detention While Awaiting Prosecution for Illegal Border Crossings
By John Wagner, Nick Miroff & Mike DeBonis June 20, 2018 - President Trump abruptly reversed course Wednesday, signing an executive order ending family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border after a public uproar over the impact of his administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The plan would keep families together in federal . Learn More
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