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Dominican Republic – Constitutional Court Reinstates Total Abortion Ban

https://news.trust.org//item/20151204094315-ilnsb Dominican Republic – Constitutional Court Reinstates Total Abortion Ban By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA, Dec 4, 2015 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A decision by the Dominican Republic's constitutional court to reinstate a total ban on abortion is putting women's lives at risk, rights groups . Learn More

Saudi Arabia – Saudi Women Outnumber Men in Getting Foreign Scholarships, but Must Be Accompanied by Legal Mahram Guardian

Note: The dates given are for the Islamic calendar. The calendar used by other countries would put 1431-1435 as 2009-2013. https://www.al-islam.com/Loader.aspx?pageid=918 https://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/856701 Saudi Arabia – Saudi Women Outnumber Men in Getting Foreign Scholarships but Must Have Legal Mahram . Learn More

Beyond Our Differences – Film on Spirituality, Compassion, Peace

Film Segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvvfa9bppNI Beyond Our Differences – Film on Spirituality, Compassion, Peace With all of the problems facing the world today including war, poverty, weapons, environmental degradation, starvation, overpopulation and severe desperation among millions, people are longing for meaning. Many seek answers . Learn More

New Independent Commission Will Focus on Sustainable Development Goals & Indicators – Women’s Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights

UN STATISTICAL COMMISSION https://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/47th-session/ Working on INDICATORS for the SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS INDICATORS WEBSITE - https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/ “A robust follow-up and review mechanism for the implementation of the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will . Learn More

The Right to Adequate Housing for Women with Disabilities Living in Cities

The Right to Adequate Housing for Persons with Disabilities Living in Cities – Urban Women with Disabilities https://unhabitat.org/books/the-right-to-adequate-housing-for-persons-with-disabilities-living-in-cities/ Direct Link to Full 134-apage 2015 Study Report:  https://www.wunrn.org/pdf/disability.pdf Computer can increase type size for . Learn More

What ISIS Has Done to the Lives of Women

https://www.wluml.org/news/what-isis-has-done-lives-women WHAT ISIS HAS DONE TO THE LIVES OF WOMEN Source: World Economic Forum By Zainab Salbi, Founder: Women for Women International November 7, 2015 - According to Edward Lorenz’s chaos theory, the butterfly effect is defined as the “sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a . Learn More

EU – 40% Venus, 60% Mars? The European Commission’s Proposal for Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards – Debated

EU Law Analysis - https://eulawanalysis.blogspot.be/2015/06/forty-percent-venus-sixty-percent-mars.html Barnard & Peers: Chapter 20 40% Venus, 60% Mars? The European Commission’s Proposal for Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards - Debated Juan Carlos Benito Sánchez, LL.M. Candidate at KU Leuven — Twitter @jcbensan Economic . Learn More

Gender-Based Non-State Actor Torture – GWI

Direct Link to Full 2-Page Policy Position Document: https://www.graduatewomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015_05_05_GWI_Non-State-Actor-Torture.pdf Gender-Based Non-State Actor Torture The Issue Torture by private individuals, families, groups or other non-State actors is an emerging, gender-based human rights violation. Non-State actors . Learn More

Asia – Gender Politics – Political Analyses

https://af.boell.org/2015/12/17/perspectives-asia-gender-issue  Direct Link to Full 48-Pages November 2015 Publication: https://af.boell.org/sites/default/files/hbs_-_perspectives_-_asia_4_-_en_-_onlineversion.pdf 17 December 2015 - The Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995 was a milestone for affirming women’s . Learn More

Yemen – Girls Face Trauma of Conflict-War, Hunger, Lack of Medical Care, Displacement, No Education +

Yemen Girls Face Trauma of Conflict-War, Hunger, Lack of Medical Care, Displacement, No Education + Via The Guardian - A Yemeni girl in the ruins of a house destroyed by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Sana’a. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA An estimated 24 million children of school-going age are out of school in 22 countries affected by . Learn More

Economic Sanctions – Insights, Realities, & The Gender Lens

Women’s economic discourse does not often address the impact of SANCTIONS. And yet, sanctions can have a profoundly serious effect on the lives of civil society women and children. In the last two decades, economic sanctions have risen from obscurity to become a central instrument of global governance and a key policy in many states’ and . Learn More

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