A refuge to only a small portion of the millions displaced by violence in Colombia, it still offers a powerful model of resistance and rebuilding. Joaquín Sarmiento/FNPI By Marie Doezema – May 19, 2017 The air in the courtyard is humid and still. As day turns to dusk, cooking smells waft through open windows and the sound of frying . Learn More
Transportation & Travel Industries & Public Programs Address Trafficking, But More Needed
Travis Olbrich on Flickr under Creative Commons By: Mellissa Withers – May 25, 2017 (WOMENSENEWS)—For those who are part of illegal industries such as human trafficking, living in the shadows and being on the move is a way of life. Whether participating by choice (as perpetrators) or by force (as victims), these people spend much of their . Learn More
NATO – GENDER EQUALITY?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/world/europe/trump-brussels-nato.html NATO – BRUSSELS – MAY 25, 2017 President Trump and the United States delegation met in Brussels on Thursday with European representatives including Donald Tusk, president of the European Council; and Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the . Learn More
Critical Next Steps in Enhancing Women’s Equality & Empowerment
By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury – 21 May 2017 Photo: Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations. Credit: Mitsu (Eric) Kimura, SUA Archivist. “I am proud to be a feminist … all of us need to be. That is how we make our planet a better place to live for all,” . Learn More
Women’s March to Ban the Bomb – June 17 – NYC
In one of its final acts of 2016, the United Nations General Assembly adopted with overwhelming support a landmark resolution to begin negotiations on a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons. This historic decision heralds an end to two decades of paralysis in multilateral nuclear disarmament efforts. Throughout June and July of 2017, governments will . Learn More
India – Child Brides Are on the Rise in India’s Towns & Cities – Report
A girl makes a pigtail to another girl against the sunset in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. REUTERS/Ajay Verma By Nita Bhalla | @nitabhalla | Thomson Reuters Foundation NEW DELHI, June 2, 2017 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An increasing number of underage girls in India's towns and cities are being married off, a study has revealed, . Learn More
Egypt – UN Experts Condemn Egypt Clampdown on the Women’s Rights Movement
Egypt - UN Experts Condemn Egypt Clampdown on the Women’s Rights Movement GENEVA (15 December 2016) – A group of United Nations experts* has strongly condemned Egypt for escalating its action against women human rights defenders and women rights groups as part of a continuing clampdown on civil society. “The Government’s actions are . Learn More
EGYPT – JAN. 11, 2017 UPDATE ON CONTINUED CRACKDOWN ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS LEADERS & PROGRAMS IN “NGO FOREIGN FUNDING” CASE
Egypt - Assets Freeze of Nazra for Feminist Studies & Its Director Is Not an End to Nazra Feminist Work 11 January 2017 - North Cairo Elementary Court decided today, 11 January 2017, to freeze the assets of feminist and woman human rights defender Mozn Hassan, Founder and Executive Director of “Nazra for Feminist Studies”, freeze . Learn More
Egypt – Police Shut Down El-Nadeem Centre for Victims of Violence & Torture
Both Egyptian and foreign NGOs are governed by a strict law [Mohamed el Raai/AP] February 9, 2017 - Egyptian authorities have closed the offices of a prominent human rights group that helps victims of violence and torture, according to the organisation and a police official quoted by the AFP news agency. El Nadeem Centre for the . Learn More
Egypt – New Repressive Law Deeply Damaging for Human Rights & NGO’s + Continued Crackdown on Women’s Rights Programs & Leaders
Repressive New Law Deeply Damaging for Human Rights & NGO’s - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA (1 June 2017) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday said the issuance of a repressive new law further restricting space for human rights monitoring, advocacy and reporting by . Learn More
We Need to Think Harder About Terrorism & Gender
Police officers join members of the public to view the flowers and messages left in honor of the victims of the recent terrorist attack in Manchester. Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty By Heather Hurlburt and Jacqueline O'Neill – June 1, 2017 Was the Manchester attack explicitly an attack on girls and women — on female culture? The apparently . Learn More
UN Special Rapporteur Freedom of Religion or Belief Report to the Human Rights Council 2017 – Gender
For Full 20-Page 2017 Report, First Go To Link - http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/34/50 Then go to the right side of the screen and then click on UN Official Language Translation of choice. Examples of Gender Components in Report: As in the case of previous mandate holders, the Special Rapporteur will . Learn More
UNICEF – One in Four Children in the Middle East & North Africa Lives in Poverty – Girls
FILE - Mothers wait for their children to be examined for signs of malnutrition at a walk-in nutrition clinic in Africa May 16, 2017 - A study by the United Nations children's agency UNICEF shows that one in four children in the Middle East and North Africa lives in poverty and deprivation, lacking even the most basic necessities, such as proper . Learn More
The Stolen Childhoods of Kashmir in Pencil & Crayon
By Soutik Biswas BBC News, Srinagar - 29 May 2017 Illustrations gathered from children in Indian-administered Kashmir These are pictures of loss of childhood and innocence. They speak about a violent world outside shuttered homes. They reveal the terrors of the present and the fears for the future. The colours are vivid. Red . Learn More
The Politicisation of Religion & Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights: Intersections
http://arrow.org.my/publication/afc-religion-srhr/ Direct Link to Full 48-Page 2017 ARROW Publication: http://arrow.org.my/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AFC-23_1_2017-WEB.pdf . Learn More
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