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Child Suicide Bombers – GIRLS – Lake Chad Region – UNICEF Report

Since January 2014, 117 children, over 80 % of them girls, were used in suicide attacks in Nigeria, Niger, Chad & Cameroon. Direct Link to Full 13-Page 2017 UNICEF Report: SILENT SHAME – BRINGING OUT VOICES OF CHILDREN CAUGHT IN THE LAKE CHAD . Learn More

BURUNDI – UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ALARMED OVER BURUNDI MILITIA “RAPE SONG/VIDEO”

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — April 18, 2017 - The U.N.'s top human rights official said Tuesday he is alarmed by what appears to be a "widespread pattern" of rallies in Burundi in which members of a pro-government youth militia chant a call to "impregnate" or kill opponents. An online video emerged this month of an incident in a rural . Learn More

Women’s NGOs Warn of UN’s Issues of Credibility in the Middle East

Photo: Ibtisam Majareesh, head of the refugee camp women’s committee and member of the camp refugee committee briefs UN Secretary-General António Guterres on cash-for-work opportunities available for Syrian refugee women at the UN Women-run centre in the Za’atari refugee camp. Photo: UN Women/ Benoît Almeras. By Jutta Wolf BERLIN (IDN) – . Learn More

Dignity: Journal on Sexual Exploitation & Violence – Volume 2, Issue 1 2017

Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence is an open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing original articles related to dignity, sexual exploitation, and violence. Current Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1 (2017) Editor-in-Chief - Donna M Hughes Editorials PDF Women, Migration, and Prostitution . Learn More

Tanzania – National Survey on Child Marriage

Students at a primary school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Married girls are more likely to drop out and stay out of school. Photo Credit: Sarah Farhat / World Bank Child marriage can look different from one country to the next. Without context-specific data, it is difficult to design interventions that will effectively tackle the . Learn More

Climate Change Is A Feminist Issue

By Linnea Engstrom - MEP for Sweden’s Green Party and Vice-Chair of the EP Committee on Fisheries, IMAGE CREDIT: CC/Flickr – Annette Bernhardt 11 April 2017 - Climate change is the single most pressing global injustice facing present and future generations, and one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time. . Learn More

Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria & Yemen – Drought & War Heighten Famine Threat – Women & Children

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN - MARCH 27, 2017 BAIDOA, Somalia — First the trees dried up and cracked apart. Then the goats keeled over. Then the water in the village well began to disappear, turning cloudy, then red, then slime-green, but the villagers kept drinking it. That was all they had. . Learn More

Women’s March & Rally to Ban the Bomb – June 17 – March to Support a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons

Saturday June 17th – New York City- Support the UN in Adopting a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Women Ban the Bomb is a women-led initiative building on the momentum of movements at the forefront of the resistance, including the Women’s March on Washington. . Learn More

Japan – “Womenomics” Encourages Women’s Labor Force Participation & Support for Working Mothers

Aozora Bank managing executive officer Michiko Achilles (C) talks with her subordinates at the bank headquarter in Tokyo. Achilles blasted through the "iron ceiling" that blocks many Japanese women's careers when she became a director at a bank this year, but an international survey shows her compatriots are falling behind. REUTERS/Toru Hanai . Learn More

Peru – Women Face Torrential Rains – Floods – Landslides – Displacement – Painful Losses – Heartaches

PERU - Native Women’s Radio in Aymara Language Reaches Rural Peru Women in Emergencies, for Optimism, for Indigenous Women’s Rights . Learn More

Australia – Domestic Violence – Responses & Practices with & for Aboriginal Women

This project concentrated on how workers and services listened to Aboriginal women—what they see and hear, what they have learnt, and how they apply this in practice. Produced by working closely and collaboratively for more than a year with three specialist DFV services — Alice Springs Women’s Shelter, Domestic Violence Crisis Service, and . Learn More

EU – Strategy for Rights of the Child – Gaps in Child Protection Frameworks – Special Risks for Migrant Children – GIRLS

Protecting the rights of migrant and refugee children is a key priority of the Council of Europe, and an area particularly targeted for action in its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021) and the Secretary General's proposal for priority actions (4 March 2016). . Learn More

If We Are Serious about Peace & Development, We Must Take Women Seriously – Ambassador Chowdhury

By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury – March 26, 2017 Photo: Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury. Credit: Mitsu (Eric) Kimura, SUA Archivist. Without peace, development is impossible, and without development, peace is not achievable, but without women, neither peace nor development is possible, writes Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former . Learn More

Canada – Canadian One-Year Private Sponsorship Contracts for Syria Refugees Come to Year’s End

Carole Atkins, with children from the Syrian refugee family she sponsored, at an ice rink in Toronto. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times By JODI KANTOR and CATRIN EINHORN - MARCH 25, 2017 TORONTO — One year after Canada embraced so many Syrian refugees, a reckoning was underway. Ordinary Canadians had essentially adopted thousands of . Learn More

Acid Attack Survivors – Photo Series: Sacred Transformations

By Kriti Tulsiani March 8, 2017 - A protest at Jantar Mantar in 2014 saw the presence of various acid attack survivors and that’s when the Delhi-based photographer Niraj Gera decided to do something more than just sympathising with them and bring to canvas a photo series as captivating and powerful as the Sacred Transformations. . Learn More

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