Women with Disabilities

AWID Resource Net Announcements: Wednesday 28 October 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The United Nations Launches Special Website for the 30th Anniversary of CEDAW

18th December 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). A working group** of the United Nations' Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) has come together to plan a number of activities in 2009 to celebrate this important anniversary, including a special anniversary website, which they invite you to visit...

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Iran: Shadi Sadr wins 2009 Human Rights Defenders Tulip Award

October 23, 2009

"'Shadi Sadr is being awarded the Human Rights Defenders Tulip for her exceptional courage, perseverance and work in an environment of concern, where human rights are repeatedly violated,' said the Dutch Foreign Minister, Mr Verhagen, who will present the award in The Hague on November 9, 2009. Ms. Sadr is a courageous journalist, human rights lawyer, women's human rights defender, and one of the most prolific women activists in Iran and in the region as a whole. She focuses in particular on ending the death penalty and stoning, as well as on women's rights and equality under law and within cultural norms..."

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EVENTS

Isis Centre for Women and Development: International Conference on Marginalized Women

To celebrate March 8, Isis Centre for Women and Development (based in Fes, Morocco and directed by Dr Fatima Sadiqi) is organizing an international conference (March 8-10, 2010) on marginalized women: single mothers, divorced women, widows, household breadwinners, in brief women without men in a globalized world seriously threatened by the impact of the financial crisis.Please read more from: http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102785099278&s=11593&e=001n3-lZvZFtYsodI03XsqCk-E2_OtSJ8gzaUCdOInN6X05clz959flqtIfILYzo1c7Bwn2LzfEhnKyup6FMxClUdty1FlT92rdtgsk0U7EvEofgVw2LaQQUEXklsWX-CfN_JjVFOFyP6yEsrfJIaxtiFeGKM_NHgqNyCk-H3w7-U_QpAWjX6Ybb9-QKdVN5uuuxhmKpp6z6ZI="

International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC): Training: Supporting Southern Advocacy

November 4-6, 2009 Oxford, England

Support your partners to integrate advocacy work into their programmes. Benefit from this insightful course by learning how to identify core advocacy skills, find real issues, causes and solutions, as well as key strategies for policy change and advocacy in difficult contexts. Identify and meet the challenges faced by northern NGOs and donors in building advocacy alliances with southern partners.

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Call for Expressions of Interest: Fiji Women's Rights Movement: Girls Leadearship Research Consultancy (Short-Term)

The Fiji Women's Rights Movement is seeking a project consultant to compile a comprehensive report on current leadership programmes for young gilrs in Fiji. Deadline for applications: October 30, 2009.

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Call for Contributions: World Pulse: "What Does Land Mean to You?"

Does it evoke images of the dusty streets you walked down as a child or memories of the sacred land you grew up on? Does your mind wander to property rights or the importance of respecting the earth? Maybe you have a broader definition of the word and recall a time you landed on your feet after taking a leap of faith. However you interpret the meaning of Land, World Pulse wants to hear from you!..:Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2009.

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Call for Contributions/Input: UNDP: Comparative Experiences and Resources on the Gender Dimensions of Electoral Law, Administration and Electoral Management

Women's civic and political equality are central to democratic development, peace building and post conflict reconstruction. UN Security Council resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888 and 1889 mandate UN agencies and member states to do more to address gender inequality in electoral and other governance processes - to ensure that women participate as voters and as candidates...UNDP would like to better understand the gender dimensions of electoral law, administration and electoral management and would therefore appreciate your input.

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Call for Applications: Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund: Scholarship Fund for Women from Developing Countries

The MMMF was established in 1981 to honor the late Margaret McNamara and her commitment to the well-being of women and children in developing countries. The purpose of the grant is to support the education of women from developing countries who are committed to improving the lives of women and children in their home countries. Previous grant recipients studied agriculture, architecture, urban planning, civil engineering, education, forestry, journalism, nursing, nutrition, pediatrics, public administration, public health, social sciences, and social work. Deadline for applicaitons: February 18, 2010.

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NEW RESOURCES

A New Publication: Youth Coalition: "Learning to Speak MDGs", 2nd Edition

The Youth Coalition's popular publication Learning to Speak MDGs has been revised in time for the ten year review of the Millennium Development Goals! Four goals: universal education; gender equality; maternal health; and HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases were analyzed from a youth, sexual and reproductive health and rights perspective.

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A New Resource: The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE): Issue Briefs on Women and Housing Rights

COHRE has recently released 10 new Issue Briefs covering a range of issues in women's housing rights. They address: 1.Women and Forced Eviction 2. Woman and Housing Rights in Africa 3. Women and Housing Rights in the Americas 4. Women and Housing Rights in Asia & Pacific 5. Women, Urbanization and Slums 6. Women and Housing Rights Standards 7. Inheritance Rights and Joint Control of Housing, Land and Property 8. Women and Housing Rights within the Context of HIV/AIDS 9. Women's Housing Rights and Gender-Based Violence 10. The Housing Rights of Girls...

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A New Resource/Article: Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS): "Colombia: Sexual Violence as Weapon of War"

Sexual violence is used as a weapon of war in Colombia by all parties in the country's longstanding armed conflict, and its main victims are women and girls, states a report recently released by Intermรณn Oxfam, backing up claims made repeatedly by national and international human rights groups.

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A New Resource: Oxfam: "Learning for Action on Women's Leadership and Participation"

In this Oxfam publication you can find ten papers on women's leadership and participation, including case studies from Haiti, Sierra Leone, Honduras and others.

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A New Publication: United Nations University: "Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons"

Every day, small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill and maim, wound and threaten millions of adults and children, whether combatants and civilians in war zones or gangs and communities in degraded "peacetime" environments that are characterized by large-scale violence.

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APPEALS AND URGENT ACTIONS

Take Action: Petition: End Forced Sterilisation in Namibia!

"The sterilisation of women living with HIV without their informed consent in Namibia is an emerging human rights issue and the extent of the problem is yet to be discovered. In 2007, reports surfaced of cases in which women seeking medical care were allegedly subjected to sterilisation without informed consent at state hospitals in two of the thirteen regions of Namibia. Since February 2008, fifteen individual cases have been documented, which appear to be merely the tip of the iceberg..."

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Take Action: FIDH: Colombia: Harassment and intimidation of human rights defender Ms Claudia Julieta Duque

October 22, 2009 Colombian human rights defender Ms Claudia Julieta Duque has been subject to ongoing intimidation and harassment. On 16 October 2009, six individuals entered her residential complex and carried out surveillance on her apartment, while four other persons waited outside with four vehicles.

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