Obstetric Fistula: The Affliction Destroying Many Afghan Women's Lives http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/05/affliction-destroying-afghan-women-lives-160516104239351.html A female-run clinic in Afghanistan is providing free, life-changing surgery to women suffering from fistula. Kobra, right, has had fistula for seven years . Learn More
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Women in Armed Groups & Fighting Forces: Lessons from Gender-Sensitive Disarmament, Demobilization & Reintegration Programmes
Women in Armed Groups & Fighting Forces: Lessons from Gender-Sensitive Disarmament, Demobilization & Reintegration Programmes http://www.css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/articles/article.html/62b42fcf-a5ff-46d5-9e6a-6bdb6d577289 By Elisa Tarnaala for Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) – 4 July 2016 As the author . Learn More
Tibet – Gender & Reproductive Health of Tibetans in Tibet & in India
Gender and Reproductive Health - Tibetans in Tibet and in India By Tibetan Woman - Tenzin Tseyang - Heller School for Social Policy and Management - Brandeis University “I know I will die. Many of my friends like me died” wept my newly arrived Tibetan cousin from Tibet as the doctor in Dharamsala, India suggested her to undergo a surgery . Learn More
India – Missing, Alleged Trafficked & Converted Girls of Assam Province
India– Missing, Alleged Trafficked & Converted Girls from Assam Province http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/operation-betiuthao/297626 Neha Dixit's five-part investigation "Operation #BabyLift" on how the Sangh Parivar flouted every Indian and international law on child right to traffic 31 young tribal girls from Assam to Punjab and . Learn More
Abuse of Older Women Is Violence, Discrimination & Oppression
UN Human Rights Council - 32nd Session - Panel WIDOWS’ RIGHTS & VIOLENCE AGAINST OLDER WOMEN By Silvia Perel-Levin World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), designated as 15 June, was initiated by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) in 2006, and recognised as a United Nations Day by the General . Learn More
Tanzania – High Court Judgment Rules Age of Marriage Laws Are Discriminatory & Unconstitutional
Tanzania – HIGH COURT JUDGMENT rules age of marriage laws discriminatory & . Learn More
Violence Against Women – Intimate Partner & Sexual Violence Against Women – WHO
Violence Against Women Intimate partner and sexual violence against women http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs239/en/ Fact sheet N°239 - Updated January 2016 Key facts: Violence against women - particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence - are major public health problems and violations of women's human . Learn More
South Africa – Girls & Women Make the Impossible, Possible – In Soccer & In Life
South Africa – Girls & Women Make the Impossible, Possible – In Soccer & In Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3yPbYrH0Xs “Women of the Soil” explores legacies of strength and courage for young Xhosa women in South Africa, in spite of high rates of gender-based violence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2msaK_puH8 “Being A Girl . Learn More
CEDAW Committee General Recommendation No. 19 on Violence Against Women
As there is not specific text on VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN in the CEDAW Convention, the CEDAW Committee created a General Recommendation on Violence Against Women. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/Recommendations.aspx The UN CEDAW Committee makes General Recommendations on any issues affecting women to which it believes the States . Learn More
Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women & Children Report to the UN 2016 – Trafficking Related to Situations of Conflict
Website of the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women & Children http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Trafficking/Pages/TraffickingIndex.aspx Link to Access Full 22-Page 2016 Report of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/32/41 Click Link – Then go to the . Learn More
Economic, Social & Cultural Rights – Analyses, Critique, Perspectives for Advocacy
This is a quite long, but significant critique. It delves into Economic, Social & Cultural Rights with an in-depth perspective. Though there are only brief references to gender, the experts give insights and analyses that can be useful in our advocacy for human rights, for women’s and girls’ rights. The review is objective on UN processes and . Learn More
Graphics on GIRLS for World Population Day – Respect Girls’ Rights & Full Potential
Graphics on GIRLS for World Population Day – Respect Girls’ Rights & Full Potential http://www.unfpa.org/WPD2016 Investing in teenage girls is critical – not only for girls, but for the world. © UNFPA Niger UNFPA – July 11. 2016 UNITED NATIONS, New York – Today is World Population Day, a day that calls attention on urgent . Learn More
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: The Ongoing Violence Against Women – Research
The Ongoing Violence Against Women: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting http://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12978-016-0159-3 Jacinta K. Muteshi1, Suellen Miller2 and José M. Belizán3Email author Reproductive Health201613:44 - © Muteshi et al. 2016 Accepted: 6 April 2016 - Published: . Learn More
Gender Equality Progress Mixed – Advances But Major Challenges & Gaps – UNDP Report
Gender Equality Progress Mixed – Advances But Major Challenges & Gaps http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/gender-equality-destined-remain-our-perpetual-aspirational-dream Link to UNDP 2015 Human Development Report – Work for Human Development – Gender http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/2015_human_development_report.pdf By Selim Jahan . Learn More
Power & The Sustainable Development Goals: A Feminist Analysis
Power & The Sustainable Development Goals: A Feminist Analysis http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13552074.2016.1147872 GENDER & DEVELOPMENT – Volume 24, Issue 1, 2016 Special Issue: Sustainable Development Goals Full text HTML - PDF BY VALERIA ESQUIVEL Pages 9-23 - Published online: 22 Feb . Learn More
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