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Trans-Pacific Partnership – Cautions on Negative Impacts on Women, Poor, Disadvantaged – Treaty Must Commit to Human Rights & Development

Policies of competition, privatization, liberalization, and deregulation have the most negative impact on the poor. Women comprise 70% of the world’s poor. APWLD - See Link to Flyer Below. UN Expert Urges Pacific Rim Countries NOT to Sign the TPP without Committing to Human Rights and Development GENEVA (2 February 2016) – United Nations . Learn More

Without a Focus on Gender, How Effective Can the Climate Change Agreement Be?

WITHOUT A FOCUS ON GENDER, HOW EFFECTIVE CAN THE CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENT BE? https://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/bridge-publications/cutting-edge-packs/gender-and-climate-change “There is a serious risk that by failing to take into account the needs of women and girls the very policies that aim to address the issue of climate change may not only . Learn More

Grantmaking with a Gender Lens – European Foundation Centre

European Foundation Centre https://www.efc.be/thematic_network/gender-equality-new-network/ The European Foundation Centre’s thematic network on gender equality has published its first collaborative work, titled “GRANTMAKING WITH A GENDER LENS.” This is the first joint project of the network and is the result of a meeting that took place in . Learn More

Syria – Want Peace in Syria? Put Women at the Negotiating Table

Want Peace in Syria? Put Women at the Negotiating Table https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/01/want-peace-syria-put-women-negotiating-table/125536/ January 29, 2016 - By Matthew Rycroft Swanee Hunt That’s what the Balkan experience tells us, say current and former British and US ambassadors. Swanee Hunt was U.S. ambassador to Austria from . Learn More

Tonga – Ongoing Debate over CEDAW Ratification, Reflects US CEDAW Challenges on a Smaller Scale

Tonga - Ongoing Debate over CEDAW Ratification Reflects US Challenges on a Smaller Scale As of 08 January 2016, on the UN CEDAW Site, Tonga Had NOT Ratified . Learn More

Africa Women Organize to Reclaim Agriculture Against Corporate Takeover

Africa Women Organize to Reclaim Agriculture Against Corporate Takeover Other Worlds - https://otherworldsarepossible.org/african-women-organize-reclaim-agriculture-against-corporate-takeover January 6, 2016 From an interview with Mphatheleini Makaulele By Simone Adler and Beverly Bell Mphathe, kneeling bottom row on right, with . Learn More

Saudi Arabia – Women Prevented from Marriage of Choice because Parents Reject, Taking Cases to Personal Status Courts

SAUDI ARABIA – WOMEN PREVENTED FROM MARRIAGE OF CHOICE BECAUSE PARENTS REJECT, TAKING CASES TO PERSONAL STATUS COURTS Arab News - https://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/871141 27 January 2016 - JEDDAH: Personal status courts across Saudi Arabia have been handling 128 cases of women seeking to get married because their families are . Learn More

Ireland – MAN UP Campaign against Domestic Violence – Men’s Leadership including Martial Arts Fighters to End Abuse of Women & Children

IRELAND - MAN UP is about the positive and powerful role that men can play in ending domestic violence, in challenging abuse and supporting women and children. https://www.safeireland.ie/ - https://www.manup.ie/ Also Via WAVE – Women Against Violence Europe On 16th November 2015, the organization SAFE Ireland launched the new phase . Learn More

Widowhood Issues for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda – Collaborative CSW 60 Statement

Collaborative Widows’ Rights Statement for the UN Commission on the Status of Women 60 - 2016 WIDOWHOOD ISSUES FOR THE POST-2015 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AGENDA Direct Link to Full 4-Page Statement: https://www.wunrn.org/pdf/n15.pdf . Learn More

Australia – Domestic & Family Violence in Australia – TV Documentary + Protection Orders Investigation

AUSTRALIA - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN AUSTRALIA TV DOCUMENTARY: BEHIND CLOSED . Learn More

Millennia 2025 – Women & Innovation Foundation – Women’s Solidarity Resolution

Memorandum and Resolution of Millennia2025 Solidarity-Women Internationale Action-Conference - Millennia2025 Solidarity-Women - "Your solidarity for our future" https://www.millennia2015.org/page.asp?id=3487&langue=FR 01. Recalling that Millennia2025 Solidarity-Women results from Millennia2015 Action Plan for women's . Learn More

2016 Brazil Olympics – Say NO to Sex Tourism – Buying Sex Is NOT a Sport – Letter to President of Brazil: Call for Sign-On

Manifesto: Say NO to Sex Tourism – Buying Sex Is NOT a Sport! Call for Sign-On to Letter to Brazil President re: 2016 Olympic Games Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America & The Caribbean https://www.catwlac.org/es/2015/12/17/manifesto-say-no-to-sex-tourism-buying-sex-is-not-a-sport/ LINK TO SIGN MANIFESTO . Learn More

Pakistan – Failure of Child Marriage Restraint Bill to Raise Marriage Age & Penalty – Activists’ Outcry

Pakistan - Failure of Child Marriage Restraint Bill to Raise Marriage Age & Penalty – Activists’ Outcry https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/pakistan-child-marriage-160118062004700.html About 20 percent of children in Pakistan are married before they turn 18 [Reuters] By Faras Ghani | 19 Jan 2016 Activists in Pakistan have . Learn More

Syria – The Brutal Effect of War on the Women of Syria

Syria - The Brutal Effect of War on the Women of Syria https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/this-is-the-brutal-effect-of-war-on-the-women-of-syria-a6841856.html Displacement, sexual assault, kidnap, house arrest and political exclusion are all daily occurrences for Syria’s female population. Residents talk to reporters in the besieged . Learn More

Nigeria – History Revisited – Oil, Economic Powers, & Women’s Rights

Some years ago, Isis International created publications on pivotal women’s rights issues for the WIA – Women in Action Series. One was WOMEN IN A WEARY WORLD: CLIMATE CHANGE & WOMEN IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH. https://www.isiswomen.org/ This WUNRN release posts below, an insightful and reality article from that Isis publication. In the women’s . Learn More

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