The entire walk took Ursula eight months Ursula Martin Written by Ursula Martin – 15 May 2017 Ursula Martin never thought she would walk 3,700 miles around Wales, but following a cancer diagnosis it seemed like the only reasonable thing to do. Walking didn’t cure my cancer, the NHS did that. But walking both healed me and made me feel normal . Learn More
Sexual Discrimination, Abuse, Exploitation, Harassment – Marine Corps/Military
Marine Capt. Erin Demchko is shown in this still image from a recent TV advertisement released by the U.S. Marines as part of an effort to recruit women. (U.S. Marine Corps via AP) By H. Patricia Hynes - https://www.truthdig.com/staff/patricia_hynes “Unlike other habits that the military efficiently drills out of its members, . Learn More
India – Campaign to Curtail Wedding Dowries – Illegal But Persist – Muslim Families
A bride with henna-decorated hands waits to participate in a mass marriage. Such ceremonies are organised to cut costs in India, where dowries are banned but remain common. Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images A successful drive to curtail the practice of wedding dowries in certain Muslim areas of India is reaping dividends – and even . Learn More
GIRL Center – For Global Girl-Centric Innovation, Research, & Learning
The Girl Innovation, Research, and Learning (GIRL) Center is a new global research center that generates, synthesizes, and translates evidence to transform the lives of adolescent girls. Through rigorous research about what works — and what doesn’t — we can better direct limited resources to supporting evidence-based solutions that improve girls’ . Learn More
CEDAW for Change International Institute – Oxford
Are you a changemaker? A feminist activist, scholar, community organizer? Are you ready to join other transnational women’s human rights defenders in using CEDAW, the UN Women’s Convention, as a tool for analysis, activism, and scholarship? CEDAW for Change Institute, Oxford, UK: September 25 – 30, 2017 Learn about CEDAW from a feminist . Learn More
USA – Child Marriage Across States – Call for Laws to Prevent
Credit Anna Parini By Nicholas Kristof - MAY 26, 2017, NY Times When she was a scrawny 11-year-old, Sherry Johnson found out one day that she was about to be married to a 20-year-old member of her church who had raped her. “It was forced on me,” she recalls. She had become pregnant, she says, and child welfare authorities were . Learn More
Rethinking Activists’ Safety at a Time of Escalating Risk
By: Adelaide Mazwarira & Alexa Bradley – May 31. 2017 On May 7, a group of armed men barged into Miriam Elizabeth Rodriguez Martinez’s home in Mexico and killed her. Miles away in Nicaragua, police arrested and beat Aydil del Carmen Urbina Noguer. In Marange area in Zimbabwe, police and military are using violence to silence women who speak . Learn More
WHEN MEN CHANGE – Video – Exploring What Works to Engage Men in Achieving Gender Equality
"When Men Change" tells the story of four men who changed the way they think about gender equality, sexual and reproductive health, and violence. In recent years, there has been increased interest in exploring how men can contribute to promoting gender equality and preventing violence against women and girls. As the evidence base grows, now is the . Learn More
EU – How to Make EU Trade Policy Gender-Equal
European Parliament – 11 May 2017 Presentation Gea Meijers EP INTA + FEMM Hearing HOW TO MAKE EU TRADE POLICY GENDER-EQUAL I would like to thank the INTA and FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights & Gender Equality, for organizing this important hearing and for inviting our WIDE + network to speak. This joint initiative by the FEMM and . Learn More
ISIS Recruitment of Western Women
By Anne Speckhard, PhD* In the past two decades I have interviewed almost five hundred terrorists, extremists, and in the case of dead suicide terrorists—their family members, close associates or hostages. These interviews have taken place in Europe, North America, Turkey, Russia and the Middle East. My research questions have always been the . Learn More
Preventing Violence, Promoting Peace – Toolkit for Preventing Interpersonal, Collective & Extremist Violence
Direct Link to Full 146-Page 2017 Toolkit: https://www.thecommonwealth-healthhub.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Preventing-Violence-Main-Report.pdf . Learn More
UN Special Rapporteurs & Independent Experts – Country Visits
The Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. The system of Special Procedures is a central element of the United Nations human rights machinery and covers all human rights: civil, cultural, economic, . Learn More
How to Raise a Feminist Son
We raise our girls to fight stereotypes and pursue their dreams, but we don’t do the same for our boys? By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and ILLUSTRATIONS BY AGNES LEE - JUNE 1, 2017, NY Times We’re now more likely to tell our daughters they can be anything they want to be — an astronaut and a mother, a tomboy and a girlie girl. But we don’t do the same . Learn More
Ukraine – Conflict-Displaced Ukrainians Surviving on Just USD 2.50 Per Day – Women
Half of IDP households in Ukraine are families with children. Photo: IOM / V.Shuvayev 5/16/17 - On average, income per IDP in Ukraine is 1,991 Ukrainian Hryvnia (UAH) or USD 75 per month, or approximately USD 2.50 per day. But some are even worse off, with 21 per cent surviving on less than two dollars a day. The average price of a loaf of bread . Learn More
USA – Women’s Student Debt Crisis
Right now about 44 million borrowers in the United States hold about $1.3 trillion in outstanding student loans. The scale of outstanding student loans and an increasing share of borrowers who fail to repay have made many Americans aware that student debt is a challenge for society and for individual borrowers. Yet despite the fact that women . Learn More
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