Womens UN Report Network

European Crisis Impact on Women’s Lives – WIDE PLUS

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.wide-network.org/index.jsp?id=228 Direct Link to Full 17-Page WIDE PLUS Document: http://62.149.193.10/wide/download/WIDE_PLUS_PUB_2012_1.pdf?id=1511 Type size larger for easier reading. . Learn More

Europe – “Families” – New Dimensions – Data – Gender

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com Direct Link to Full 222-Page Report: http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/emplweb/families/userfiles/file/Family%20Platform%20book%202.pdf One explanatory factor for the declining marriage rate is that family formation has increasingly become connected to . Learn More

EU – Women’s Working Conditions in Service Sector – Draft Report

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com Direct Link to Full 10-Page DRAFT REPORT: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/femm/pr/900/900054/900054en.pdf "In 2010, in the EU, employment in the service sector accounted for 69.4 % of all jobs, while in industry this figure was 25.4 % and in . Learn More

CSW 56 – UN Report & Resolutions

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/56sess.htm#resolutions REPORT OF THE 56TH SESSION OF THE UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN Direct Link to Full 56-Page CSW 56-2012 Report: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=E/2012/27 CSW 56 . Learn More

CSW Communications Procedure on Women Rights Violations – Note for CSW 2013

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/communications_procedure.html#where COMMUNICATIONS REGARDING HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN VIOLATIONS, TO UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN - NOTE FOR CSW 2013 Any person or organization with a communication should write by 1 August . Learn More

Bosnia & Herzegovina – Women’s Issues, Challenges – Video

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67OaFj2kunE Bosnia & Herzegovina - Women's Issues, Challenges - Video ______________________ . Learn More

Australia – Bystander Action to Prevent Violence Against Women

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com VicHealth - Australia Victorian Health Promotion Foundation http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/Publications/Freedom-from-violence/Bystander-Research-Project.aspx AUSTRALIA - BYSTANDER ACTION TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 25.05.12 - The VicHealth Bystander Research Project is . Learn More

Ageing Information Guides – Gender

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.ageuk.org.uk/publications/age-uk-information-guides-and-factsheets/ AGEING INFORMATION GUIDES - GENDER Some of these Guides are more specific to UK, but many include information that is useful for elderly women in multiple countries and . Learn More

Aesha – Nose Cut Off – Symbol – Publicity – Complex Changes

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2012/05/world/saving.aesha/index.html - Full Article AESHA OF AFGHANISTAN - NOW USA - NOSE CUT OFF - SYMBOL OF OPPRESSION - PUBLICITY - COMPLEX CHANGES Jessica Ravitz - CNN Aesha's prosthetic nose was . Learn More

2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm#wrapper Website Gives Subsite Link to Individual Country & Region Reports. 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices On January 14, Tunisian president Zine el-Abedine Ben Ali boarded a plane . Learn More

WSIS – World Summit on the Information Society – Women

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com WSIS - WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY - WOMEN CHALLENGES OF GENDER ISSUES, PRESENCE, ADVOCACY, POWER, FINANCING, . Learn More

Women & Land Rights – Political, Legal, Economic Issues +

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com WOMEN & LAND RIGHTS - CHALLENGES FOR EMPOWERMENT - VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES - LAND GRABBING - CORRUPTION - WOMEN'S VULNERABILITY _____________________________________________________________________ International Land . Learn More

Women & Ageing – Images – Research

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com WOMEN & AGEING - IMAGES - RESEARCH http://www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/nda-findings-10.html Women in their 50s–60s felt more pressure from media and advertising imagery compared with participants in their 80–90s. Eighty-eight per cent of . Learn More

USA – Female Immigrant Farmworkers Vulnerable to Sexual Abuse

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/node/107044 Direct Link to Full 101-Page Report: http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us0512ForUpload_1.pdf CULTIVATING FEAR: THE VULNERABILITY OF FEMALE IMMIGRANT FARMWORKERS IN THE US, TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE & . Learn More

USA – Report & Advocacy for Improved Social Security for Women +

WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.ncpssm.org/news/archive/ss_proposals_wrapup_release/ Direct Link to Full 23-Page Report: http://www.ncpssmfoundation.org/breaking_ss_glass_ceiling.pdf USA National Coalition Urges Congress to Consider Sweeping Social Security Proposals for Women, . Learn More