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Pakistan National Commission on the Status of Women – Honor Killings, Foeticide, Violence, Policy Advocacy
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com Friday, November 10, 2006 http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=334200&sid=SAS Pakistan Women's Commission Terms Honour Killing Biggest Concern New Delhi, Nov 08: Terming honour killing as one of the biggest issues relating to women in Pakistan, a delegation from the . Learn More
Pakistan – Seminar on Women’s Rights Awareness – Sialkot, Punjab – SHADO
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com SHADO - http://www.shado.org.pk/shado_programs.html Social Harmony & Development Organization "Creating a Peaceful Society" Pakistan - Seminar on Women's Rights Awareness - Sialkot, Punjab ================================================================To leave the list, send your . Learn More
Palestine – Violence Against Palestinian Women & Girls – Human Rights Watch
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH http://hrw.org/reports/2006/opt1106/ Please click website Link to access subsite references. A Question of Security Violence against Palestinian Women and GirlsThis 101-page report, based on field research conducted in the West Bank and Gaza in November 2005 and early 2006, documents . Learn More
Trafficking – The New Global Slave Trade – Article
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com Preview of Article. Full Article available by purchase. http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20061101faessay85609/ethan-b-kapstein/the-new-global-lave-trade.htmlThe New Global Slave TradeEthan B. Kapstein Foreign Affairs, November/December 2006Article preview: first 500 of 4,339 words total.Summary: Most people . Learn More
Turkey – Women-Only Park Plan – Controversy
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/10/28/10078182.html Turkey 10/28/2006 12:00 AM (UAE) Women-only park plan causes a stir in Turkey Reuters . Learn More
Uganda – Women’s Peace Torch – Women’s Peace Caravan to Northern Uganda
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=525 UNIFEM Women’s Peace Torch Arrives in Uganda in Solidarity with the Women of Northern Uganda 27 October 2006 The Women's Peace Torch arrives today in Kampala to begin a journey of solidarity with the women of Northern Uganda. Having travelled . Learn More
UK – African Women FGM Practitioners Flown by Parents to UK to Circumcise Their Young Daughters
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com UK - Britain http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-2416783,00.html The Times October 23, 2006 Parents Fly in African Village Elders to Circumcise Their Young Daughters By Nicola Woolcock Police and health authorities fear that . Learn More
UN Agency for Women Proposed
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1163112610041&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724 Proposed UN Agency `Dramatic Step Forward' for Women Nov. 10, 2006. 01:00 AM OLIVIA WARD STAFF REPORTER A landmark proposal for . Learn More
UN Commission on the Status of Women – 60th Anniversary – Major Achievements +
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/CSW60YRS/index.htm#MAJOR Important: Please click website Link to access subsite references. Home About DAW News CEDAW . Learn More
UN General Assembly Third Committee – Draft Resolutions on Trafficking, Ageing, Literacy +
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/gashc3858.doc.htm 19 October 2006 General Assembly GA/SHC/3858 Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York Sixty-first General Assembly Third Committee 23rd . Learn More
UN Special Representative for Children & Armed Conflicts Sites a Terrible Year for Children in War
http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20082&Cr=rights&Cr1=council This has been a terrible year for children in armed conflict, says Independent UN Expert Radhika Coomaraswamy 29 September 2006 – The new United Nations Human Rights Council should make it a primary duty to protect civilians . Learn More
UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights 2006 58th Session – Gender Reference Examples
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Final report of the fifty-eighth session English Version - Examples of Gender References 2006/4. The Difficulty of Establishing Guilt or Responsibility With Regard to Sexual Violence Pages 17-18 2006/5. Sessional Working . Learn More
USA – Increase in Violence Against Native American Indian Women – Federal & Tribal Jurisdiction
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3853/printmode/true USA: Rising Violence Against Native Women Has ‘Colonial Roots’ by Michelle Chen As native women experience increasingly severe abuse by non-Indian and Indian men, many are addressing the systemic foundations of misogyny in their . Learn More
Veils – European Commission President – Continued Debates
WUNRN http://wunrn.wpengine.com http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/49C51A02-A574-42F6-AA37-F7228F66E9A0.htm European Commission President Barroso - Veils Thursday 26 October 2006 Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President, has called veils worn by Muslim women obstacles to communication. Barroso made the comments in an . Learn More