Archives for 2016

Britain Brexit Referendum Votes to Leave the European Union

Britain Brexit Referendum Votes to Leave European Union https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36615879 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/world/europe/britain-brexit-european-union-referendum.html?emc=edit_na_20160623&nlid=36377513&ref=cta WUNRN will be attentive to analyses on how this history-making vote will impact women in the . Learn More

Afghanistan – Menstruation Challenges for Afghan Girls

Afghanistan – Menstruation Challenges for Afghan Girls https://testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com/saharspeaks/saharfetrat/ Documentary Film-Maker A university student in Kabul buys sanitary napkins. (Photo: Sahar Fetrat) By Sahar Fetrat Zahra was in third grade when her period started. At the time, she and her family were in Iran, having . Learn More

Mixed Progress at the UN on Rights of Persons with Disabilities + Women’s Challenges for Inclusion, Leadership

Mixed Progress at the UN on Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Gender https://www.ipsnews.net/2016/06/mixed-progress-at-un-on-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities/ Women with disabilities in Afghanistan protest for their rights. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS. By Lyndal Rowlands UNITED NATIONS, Jun 21 2016 (IPS) - Nearly 10 years . Learn More

2015 Was Deadliest Year on Record for Killings of Environmental Activists – Women Defending Land, Resources, Rights

2015 Was the Deadliest Year on Record for Killing of Environmental Activists Women Defending Land, Resources, Rights https://www.ipsnews.net/2016/06/the-environment-latin-americas-battleground-for-human-rights/ Indigenous Asheninka activist Diana Rios (centre) from the Amazon village of Saweto, Peru is the daughter of slain activist Jorge . Learn More

“We Are Girls, Not Brides”- The First-Ever Anthem to End Child Marriage

“We Are Girls, Not Brides”- The First-Ever Anthem to End Child Marriage Musical Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUehNPRin5o&utm_source=Girls+Not+Brides+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2e48b3e298-_DAC2016_share_the_video_6_15_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_76f9bccc26-2e48b3e298-346095193 . Learn More

Venezuela – Acute Humanitarian Disaster – Hunger – Lack of Services – Protests – Women

Venezuela – Acute Humanitarian Disaster – Hunger - Lack of Services – Protests - Women https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/hungry-venezuelans-take-desperate-measures-worsening-crisis-n595791 People argue with members of the National Guard as they try to line in front of a supermarket in Caracas on June 2, 2016. RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP/Getty . Learn More

Women & The Human Right to Peace – Power Point

Women & The Human Right to Peace – Power Point Direct Link to Power Point: *Women & The Human Right to Peace Computers vary. What may come up on your screen is the Power Point Title Page in the center, with individual slides in a column on the left. TO MAKE POWER POINT FILL YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN, go to the top bar of the computer and . Learn More

Why International Widows Day Matters – June 23

Why International Widows Day Matters June 23 is International Widows Day Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/widows-guide-healing/201606/why-international-widows-day-matters Source: A Widow & Her Child in Kenya, photo by Kristin Meekhof By Kristin Meekhof & Heather Ibrahim-Leathers – June 21, 2016 Widow. . Learn More

France – 17 French Women Politicians Wrote Open Letter that They Will No Longer Endure Sexual Harassment from Their Male Colleagues

17 French Women Politicians Wrote Open Letter that They Will No Longer Endure Sexual Harassment from Their Male Colleagues https://time.com/4338698/french-women-politicians-sexual-harassment/ French Green Party Deputy Cecile Duflot attends the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris.Photo: Charles . Learn More

Global Food Security Index 2016

https://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/ The Global Food Security Index considers the core issues of affordability, availability, and quality across a set of 113 countries. The index is a dynamic quantitative and qualitative benchmarking model, constructed from 28 unique indicators, that measures these drivers of food security across both developing . Learn More

Impact on Early Marriage of Conditional Cash Transfers – India Research

Impact on Early Marriage of Conditional Cash Transfers – India Research transfer program https://www.icrw.org/hub/impacct-findings-evaluation-india-based-conditional-cash-transfer-program This page provides an overview of the Impact on Marriage: Program Assessment of Conditional Cash Transfers (IMPACCT) study conducted by the International . Learn More

Stanford Rape Victim’s Searing Statement Created a Tipping Point on Understanding of Rape

Stanford Rape Victim’s Searing Statement Created a Tipping Point on Understanding of Rape https://globalrightsforwomen.org/2016/06/14/twenty-minutes-of-action-leads-to-a-tipping-point/ According to Malcolm Gladwell, a tipping point is the moment a social trend passes a threshold and starts to spread like wildfire. The Stanford rape case is . Learn More

Power & The Sustainable Development Goals: A Feminist Analysis

Power & The Sustainable Development Goals: A Feminist Analysis https://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

ICT’s for Feminist Movement Building – Activist Toolkit

ICT’s for Feminist Movement Building - Activist Toolkit https://www.justassociates.org/en/resources/icts-feminist-movement-building-activist-toolkit By Just Associates, Association for Progressive Communications, Women'sNet Direct Link to Full 160-Page Toolkit: . Learn More

India – Suicide Farmers’ Widows Face a “Living Death”

India - Suicide farmers' Widows Face "Living Death" https://news.trust.org/item/20160621000436-vyw1r/ Joshna Wandile in her two-room home she built in Alipur village, Maharashtra after her in-laws and then her parents threw her out after her farmer husband killed himself. India has the most widows in the world, who are ostracised and abused . Learn More

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