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Stop Violence Against Indigenous Women, Against All Women & Girls

STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS WOMEN, AGAINST ALL WOMEN & GIRLS Cultural Survival - https://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1101748879238&ca=3e4bffe6-6f85-46f3-b0a4-81e1d39fde5c Mariana Quaxel Sul, Guatemala. Photo by Rossy Gonzalez. November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against . Learn More

Brazil – Gender-Based Violence & HIV Infection: Overlapping Epidemics

Brazil – Gender-Based Violence & HIV Infection: Overlapping Epidemics https://www.svri.org/blog/gender-based-violence-and-hiv-infection-overlapping-epidemics-brazil AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Facebook2Share to TwitterShare to More Submitted by: Kristin Kay Gundersen - Co-Authors: Jamila K. Stockman, Kiyomi Tsuyuki, Daniela . Learn More

Turkey – Government Withdraws Child Rape Bill After Street Protests

TURKEY WITHDRAWS CHILD RAPE BILL AFTER STREET PROTESTS https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38061785 Also Via Human Rights Without Frontiers Serious protests in Ankara, Turkey, against proposed law. AP Photo Turkey - Prime Minister Withdraws Bill that Pardons Men Convicted of Sex with Underage Girls if They Marry Them. 22 . Learn More

Australia – Action Urgently Needed to Stop Violence Against Women with Disability

Australia - Action Urgently Needed to Stop Violence Against Women with Disability Women with Disabilities Australia - WWDA https://wwda.org.au/media-release-action-urgently-needed-to-stop-violence-against-women-with-disability/ Violence against women with disability occurs at alarming levels in Australia: at least twice the rate of other . Learn More

Verse & Art – Woman’s Self-Trust in Times of Great Change

https://www.shilohsophiastudios.com/thosewholivefromthesoul/ WOMAN’S SELF-TRUST IN TIMES OF GREAT CHANGE On speaking to those who live from the soul, during times of great change. Do not tell me to move on. Do not tell me to speak out when I wish for silence. Do . Learn More

India – Importance of Media Coverage on Family Planning – For Society Awareness, Access & Policy Incentives

India - Writing Family Planning & Reproductive Health into the Nation’s Priority: Media Coverage & Trends 29 September, 2016. New Delhi: The Population Foundation of India (PFI) and Women’s Feature Service (WFS) held a consultation titled ‘Writing Family Planning and Reproductive Health into the Nation’s Priority: Tracking Media . Learn More

China – Family: The Invisible Battlefront for Female Professionals in China – 2016 China Women, Work & Happiness White Paper

China - Family: The Invisible Battlefront for Female Professionals in China https://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/survey/1611/2012-1.htm By Tencent FinanceEditor: Penny Huang – November 9, 2016 Lean In China, a personal and professional development platform for women, on November 7, 2016 released the 2016 Women, Work and Happiness . Learn More

Zambia – National Men’s Network Commends Government for Free Distribution of Sanitary Towels to Girls in Schools

https://www.facebook.com/Zambia-National-Mens-Network-ZNMN-939403532809529/ . Learn More

Digital Journalism Trainers Manual – English & Arabic

Digital Journalism Trainers Manual - Introduction to Digital Media & Media Convergence Digital Journalism Trainers Manual – English https://www.irex.org/sites/default/files/node/resource/digital-journalism-trainers-manual-english.pdf Training Manual – Arabic - . Learn More

EU – Fundamental Rights in the European Union – In-Depth Analysis

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION – IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS Direct Link to Full 30-Page Publication: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2015/554168/EPRS_IDA(2015)554168_EN.pdf 2.2. Fundamental rights as general principles of EU law Long before the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty and the EU Charter of Fundamental . Learn More

Safe Schools Declaration & Endorsements – Gender – Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack

https://www.protectingeducation.org/who-we-are The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) was established in 2010 by organizations from the fields of education in emergencies and conflict-affected fragile states, higher education, protection, international human rights, and international humanitarian law who were concerned . Learn More

Cambodia Women Trafficked to China for Forced Marriages – Study

Study On Forced Marriage Between Cambodia & China https://un-act.org/new-in-research-a-un-act-study-on-forced-marriage-between-cambodia-and-china/ Direct Link to Full 37-Page 2016 Report: https://un-act.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Final_UN-ACT_Forced_Marriage_Report.pdf August 25, 2016 - UN-ACT is pleased to release its new . Learn More

USA – NYC/Queens Human Trafficking Intervention Court Has Helped Many Prostitutes, Vulnerable Women Get Off the Streets

USA-NYC - HUMAN TRAFFICKING INTERVENTION COURT HAS HELPED MANY PROSTITUTES GET OFF THE STREETS https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-sex-trade-inside-new-york-court-that-helps-prostitutes-get-off-streets-1591839 A Sex Buyer Law would shift the burden of criminality from prostitutes to the men paying for sexGetty Images By Julie Bindel in New York . Learn More

Land Rights for Women Deter Violence & Leverage Equality

LAND RIGHTS FOR WOMEN DETER VIOLENCE & LEVERAGE EQUALITY https://womendeliver.org/2016/land-rights-women-deter-violence-leverage-equality/?bblinkid=31098220&bbemailid=2451152&bbejrid=166457759 A ripple of benefits unfold when women have secure, recognized rights to the land they rely on for their livelihoods. Women gain increased . Learn More

Rape as an Act of Genocide

Rape As An Act of Genocide: From Rwanda To Iraq https://www.ipsnews.net/2016/11/rape-as-an-act-of-genocide-from-rwanda-to-iraq/ Zainab Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe. By Lindah Mogeni UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 2016 (IPS) - The governments of Rwanda and . Learn More