WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com Afghanistan: Was the Women's Vote Counted? http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/09/14/was-womens-vote-counted?tr=y&auid=5338832 Human Rights Watch ________________________________________________________________________ Photographer - Fardin Waezi . Learn More
16 Days of Activism on VAW – Community Radio – Internet Campaign
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://win.amarc.org/index.php?p=16_Days_Against_Violence_on_Women_2009&l=EN Offered in English, Spanish, & French 16 DAYS CAMPAIGN AGAINST VIOLENCE ON WOMEN 2009 From November 25 to December 10th, the Women's International Network of the World Association of . Learn More
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence – Anniversaries
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com FULL 5-PAGE DOCUMENT IS ATTACHED. ================================================================ To contact the list administrator, or to leave the list, send an email to: wunrn_listserve-request@lists.wunrn.com. Thank you. . Learn More
World Health Organization – Maternal & Newborn Health Workshop
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/events/2009/7_12_2009/en/index.html Link to Application Form: http://www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/Form/registration/en/index.html Sixth Orientation Workshop on "Maternal and Newborn Health Programming" Geneva, . Learn More
Working with Women’s Nongovernment Organizations – ADB
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com Direct Link to Full 54-Page Document: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Working-Women-NGO/working-women-NGO.pdf ADB Website Link: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Working-Women-NGO/default.asp Working with Women's Nongovernment Organizations Contents . Learn More
Women & Depression
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/women-and-depression-discovering-hope/index.shtml Women and Depression: Discovering Hope A booklet that describes the symptoms, treatment and factors contributing to depression that are unique to women. (2008). · What . Learn More
Violence Against Women – Call to UN States for Accountability, Implementation +
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/ViolenceWomen.aspx VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - CALL TO UN STATES BY FORMER SR FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, IMPLEMENTATION, & COMPLIANCE ON VAW The former Special Rapporteur on violence against . Learn More
Violence Against Women Monitor – September 2009
Vietnam – Rise in Male Birth Ratio to Females – Risk of Trafficking +
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HAN523322.htm Vietnam - Birth Trend May Fuel Sex Work, Trafficking - UN 09 Sep 2009 HANOI, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The ratio of boys born in Vietnam compared with girls has grown at an unusually rapid pace in . Learn More
Unconditional Cash Transfers Impact on Child Nutrition: South Africa – Gender
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com "Nutrition is remarkably responsive to the receipt of such grant income (perhaps because it is directed to women)." South Africa's Child Support Grant Programme has targeted child support payments to children's caregivers (who are almost exclusively women). Direct Link to . Learn More
Trafficking – Uzbekistan – United Arab Emirates – Video
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com Aljazeera Video Via Women News Network Direct Link to Video: http://vodpod.com/watch/2114032-uzbek-human-trafficking-women?mp=1&pod=womennewsnetwork Trafficking - Uzbekistan-United Arab Emirates - . Learn More
Trafficking – Reintegration of Trafficking Victims
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com TRAFFICKING - REINTEGRATION OF TRAFFICKING VICTIMS FULL 8-PAGE REPORT IS ATTACHED. FROM SIREN - UNIAP - UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking. The United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) works in six countries across the Greater . Learn More
Tanzania – Launch of Bank for Women
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://news.bbc.co.uk:80/2/hi/africa/8173353.stm 28 July 2009 Tanzania Launches Bank for Women Tanzania has launched a bank aimed specifically at women in what officials say will be an empowering move. The bank says . Learn More
Sudan – Women & Children Increasingly Victims in Southern Clashes
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=86000 SUDAN: Women, Children Increasingly Targeted in Southern Clashes Photo: Peter Martell/IRIN A southern Sudanese woman recovers from a gunshot wound after surviving a recent massacre (file photo): Officials . Learn More
Sudan – “Indecent Clothing” Case – Flogging Dropped But Charges Remain & Fine
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com WUNRN Release has TWO PARTS. Women Living Under Muslim Laws - WLUML http://wluml.org:80/english/actionsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B156%5D=i-156-565265 Sudan - Lubna Hussein no longer faces flogging for wearing trousers. However, she has not succeeded in having the charges against . Learn More
