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Creating National Action Plans: A Guide to Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325

By Zsuzsanna Lippai &Angelic Young • October 2017 This guide is a resource for policymakers and civil society leaders as they seek to develop, implement, and track progress of national strategies aimed at advancing women’s inclusion. Direct Link to Full 64-Page 2017 Guide: . Learn More

Land Intensive Corporate Activity – The Impact on Women’s Rights

FULL REPORT - Direct Link to Full 30-Page 2017 Publication: https://corporate-responsibility.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Essex-Human-Rights-Clinic-Report-Business-and-Human-Rights-Engendering-Human-Rights-Due-Diligence-A-Legal-Analysis.pdf Via Womankind UK – 2017 – 9 . Learn More

EU – Women’s Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights in Europe

Progress Needed to Ensure Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Europe! Despite considerable progress, women in Europe continue to face widespread denials and infringements of their sexual and reproductive health and rights. Laws, policies and practices still curtail and undermine women’s sexual and reproductive health, autonomy, . Learn More

UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples – Call for Applications for 2018 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – Indigenous Women

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples has recently launched its online application process available in 3 languages: English/French/Spanish. Application for funding support is now open for the 17th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) from 16 to 27 April 2018 in New York and in the 11th . Learn More

Canada – Increase in Child Care Fees – Report

The study finds that child care fees have risen faster than inflation in 71% of the cities since last year, and in 82% of cities since 2014. Direct Link to Full 31-Page 2017 Report: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2017/12/Time%20Out.pdf Author(s): David Macdonald & . Learn More

El Salvador – Court Upholds 30-Year Jail Sentence in Stillbirth Case

Women take part in a demostration against anti-abortion laws at the congress in San Salvador.. Photograph: Stringer/El Salvador/Reuters EL SALVADOR’S ANTI-ABORTION LAW MAKES CRIMINALS OF MOTHERS WHO MISCARRY https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/14/el-salvador-court-upholds-30-year-jail-sentence-in-stillbirth-case Website Includes . Learn More

The Hunting Ground – A Film About Sexual Assault on Campus

This powerful film is a startling exposé of sexual assault on college campuses that follows two courageous activists as they unmask a nationwide cover-up. The Hunting Ground is an exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their . Learn More

2017 Global Hunger Index: The Inequalities of Hunger – Gender

Direct Link to Full 52-Page 2017 Report: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/GHI%202017%20-%20full%20report.pdf The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger at the global, regional, and national levels. The International Food Policy Research . Learn More

European Network of Migrant Women: Europe-Africa Organized Sexual Exploitation of Women & Girls

Direct Link to Full 9-Page 2017 Document: https://www.migrantwomennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ENOMW-EUROPE-AFRICA-CRISIS-FINAL-1.pdf . Learn More

South Sudan – A Lifetime of Violence for Conflict-Affected Women & Girls in South Sudan

Direct Link to Full 32-Page 2017 Report: https://www.rescue-uk.org/sites/default/files/document/1580/southsudanlgsummaryreportonline.pdf . Learn More

Elections of UN Treaty Bodies Members, Gender Composition +

The human rights treaty bodies are committees of independent experts that monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties. Each State party to a treaty has an obligation to take steps to ensure that everyone in the State can enjoy the rights set out in the . Learn More

Fearless Futures: A Feminist Cartographer’s Toolkit

Direct Link to Full 56-Page 2017 Toolkit: https://www.awid.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/feminist_futures.pdf © Fearless Collective 5 December 2017 - Many participants at the 2016 AWID International Forum shared that the plenary session led by the Fearless Collective was one of their most memorable moments - a beautiful testimony to . Learn More

All Women Deserve to Have Their Reality Honored

I want to share with you what I write in the Afterword in my newly published book The Mother-Daughter Puzzle. The need for women to dig deep into what they have learned to believe is true, and to understand how the women in their family have been emotionally silenced and emotionally neglected is vital. This understanding is essential for the . Learn More

Afghanistan SE – A Maternity Hospital Delivering Hope – Progress in Khost, but Mountainous Regions Remain Challenges

Afghanistan Southeast - A Maternity Hospital Delivering Hope Progress in Khost, but Mountainous Regions Remain Challenges An average of 60 babies are now born there every day. A newborn baby receiving care in an Afghan hospital. (Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) By Ahmad Shah – 5 December 2017 Resident of Khost say that . Learn More

Russia – Crackdown Continues on Independent Media & NGO’s – Gender

How Does This Affect Women in Media in Russia & Women’s & Human Rights NGO’s? Russia has framed a new law (which allows Moscow to designate media organizations that receive funding from abroad as “foreign agents”) as reciprocal retaliation for the U.S. Department of Justice’s requirement that RT America (formerly Russia Today) register . Learn More