INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2007
Ending Impunity for Violence against Women and Girls
While manifestations of violence against women and girls vary across social, economic, cultural and historical contexts, it is clear that violence against women and girls remains a devastating reality in all parts of the world. Existing research, data and testimonials from women and girls world-wide provide chilling evidence. It is a pervasive violation of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality, development and peace.
Such violence is unacceptable, whether perpetrated by the State and its agents or by family members or strangers, in the public or private sphere, in peacetime or in times of conflict.
International, regional and national legal and policy frameworks have been established, covering many different forms of violence in public as well as in private settings. However, progress in the development of such legal norms, standards and policies has not been accompanied by comparable progress in their implementation. It remains insufficient and inconsistent in all parts of the world. MORE http://www.un.org/events/women/iwd/2007/index.html
Please also see:
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) http://www.unifem.org
A GLOBAL DAY OF CELEBRATION
Celebrated on 8 March, International Women's Day (IWD) is the global day connecting all women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential. IWD celebrates the collective power of women past, present and future ... http://www.internationalwomensday.com
International Women's Day 2007
ILO to celebrate working women who have been "breaking boundaries and driving change" http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2007/5.htm
Help women prosper and society as a whole will benefit,
UN Assembly president says
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21792&Cr=women&Cr1
Do women and girls have human rights? asks Pinar Ilkkaracan
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/girls_rights_4386.jsp
Felicity Arbuthnot: “You are either with us ...”
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3258&blz=1
Felicity Arbuthnot: Some Mothers' Daughters - The Silence
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3240&blz=1
Iraq: CALL FOR WORLDWIDE INTENSIFYING MOBILIZATION
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3239&blz=1
Haifa Zangana: We have not been liberated
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31169&hd=&size=1&l=e
War, Violence Take Toll on Women
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1173087888704&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Women Empowerment at Doha Forum Finale http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1171897354911&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
The death sentence pronounced on three Iraqi women
alleged to be members of the resistance
http://www.uruknet.info?p=31075
Heather Wokusch: War on Terror, War on Women
http://www.heatherwokusch.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=110
Sarah Lindon: Gendered states
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/gendered_states_4415.jsp
More Articles
Inter Press Service News Agency
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/womensday/index.asp
CODEPINK http://www.codepink4peace.org
Bat Shalom: women with a vision for a just peace
http://www.batshalom.org/article.php?id=32
The Iraq Situation http://www.unhcr.org/iraq.html
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) http://www.rawa.org/index.php
Women in Black http://www.womeninblack.net
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) http://www.catwinternational.org
Ending Impunity for Violence against Women and Girls
While manifestations of violence against women and girls vary across social, economic, cultural and historical contexts, it is clear that violence against women and girls remains a devastating reality in all parts of the world. Existing research, data and testimonials from women and girls world-wide provide chilling evidence. It is a pervasive violation of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality, development and peace.
Such violence is unacceptable, whether perpetrated by the State and its agents or by family members or strangers, in the public or private sphere, in peacetime or in times of conflict.
International, regional and national legal and policy frameworks have been established, covering many different forms of violence in public as well as in private settings. However, progress in the development of such legal norms, standards and policies has not been accompanied by comparable progress in their implementation. It remains insufficient and inconsistent in all parts of the world. MORE http://www.un.org/events/women/iwd/2007/index.html
Please also see:
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) http://www.unifem.org
A GLOBAL DAY OF CELEBRATION
Celebrated on 8 March, International Women's Day (IWD) is the global day connecting all women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential. IWD celebrates the collective power of women past, present and future ... http://www.internationalwomensday.com
International Women's Day 2007
ILO to celebrate working women who have been "breaking boundaries and driving change" http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2007/5.htm
Help women prosper and society as a whole will benefit,
UN Assembly president says
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21792&Cr=women&Cr1
Do women and girls have human rights? asks Pinar Ilkkaracan
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/girls_rights_4386.jsp
Felicity Arbuthnot: “You are either with us ...”
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3258&blz=1
Felicity Arbuthnot: Some Mothers' Daughters - The Silence
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3240&blz=1
Iraq: CALL FOR WORLDWIDE INTENSIFYING MOBILIZATION
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3239&blz=1
Haifa Zangana: We have not been liberated
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31169&hd=&size=1&l=e
War, Violence Take Toll on Women
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1173087888704&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Women Empowerment at Doha Forum Finale http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1171897354911&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
The death sentence pronounced on three Iraqi women
alleged to be members of the resistance
http://www.uruknet.info?p=31075
Heather Wokusch: War on Terror, War on Women
http://www.heatherwokusch.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=110
Sarah Lindon: Gendered states
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/gendered_states_4415.jsp
More Articles
Inter Press Service News Agency
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/womensday/index.asp
CODEPINK http://www.codepink4peace.org
Bat Shalom: women with a vision for a just peace
http://www.batshalom.org/article.php?id=32
The Iraq Situation http://www.unhcr.org/iraq.html
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) http://www.rawa.org/index.php
Women in Black http://www.womeninblack.net
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) http://www.catwinternational.org