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INSTRAW News / Noticias del INSTRAW / Nouvelles de INSTRAW
E-Newsletter
Mid May 2006
Table of Contents
- NEWS
- EVENTS
- INTERVIEWS
- NEW PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS/ARTICLES/WEBSITES
- CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
- GRANT/FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
1. NEWS
**Annual Meeting – Communications and Information Technology Service - UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations** INSTRAW hosted the five-day annual planning meeting of for all field missions of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. The meeting was held at INSTRAW"s headquarters, from 1 to 6 May 2006. The objective was to highlight best practices, exchange lessons learned and share views on current trends in communications and IT technologies. For more information, please visit:
http://www.un-instraw.org/en/docs/press-releases/INSTRAW_CITS_DPKO_Press_Release_060506.pdf
2. EVENTS
**Workshop on "Gender, ICTs and Development** This one-day workshop organized by the UK Development Studies Association
"Information, Technology and Development" study group will be held on 6 June 2006, Manchester, England. The objective of the workshop is to bring together contemporary field evidence from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean on the relations between ICTs and socio-economic development from a gendered perspective. Further details and a registration form can be found at:
http://www.womenictenterprise.org/manworkshop.htm
E-mail: richard.heeks@manchester.ac.uk - s.arun@mmu.ac.uk
**Seminar on VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN** This seminar, organized by UNIFEM-UK on 12 June 2006, from 3.30pm to 6.00 pm, at Houses of Parliament, Committee Room 10, London, United Kingdom. This Seminar will provide an opportunity to hear about the current report of the UN Secretary General and the consultation process on various forms of VAW and its manifestations, including harmful cultural, religious and traditional practices and the existing economic, political, legal, social and cultural structures which give rise to the various forms of violence against women in the current global reality.
E-mail: secretary@unifemuk.org
**International Leadership Conference 2006: Women's Leadership and Empowerment** This conference will be held on 23-25 June 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand. The objective of the Conference is to try to answer multiple questions regarding the role and importance of women in contemporary societies. Applications will be accepted until May 15th, 2006. After this date, we will accept applications on a rolling admission basis as long as space remains. For more information, please visit:
http://www.tomorrowpeople.org/ILC/program.htm
E-mail: contact@tomorrowpeople.org
**Gender Networks and Media: Integration and Mutual Empowerment** The Journalists" Association GenderМediaCaucasus, with the support of ODIHR (Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) and OSCE (The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) will hold its International Conference of Journalists on 1-3 July 2006, Tbilisi, Georgia. The Conference will focus on the effective cooperation between the media and local gender networks and will analyze cooperation between the networks and the media of the post-soviet region. For more information, please visit:
**IGWG Technical Update on Child Marriage** The IGWG will hold this Technical Update on 11 July 2006, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. It will focus on Child Marriage and its negative implications for public health and human rights, including the range of Child Marriage practices globally, their cultural significance, and relevance to reproductive health. More details will follow soon on the IGWG website: http:www.igwg.org
**Allies for Social Change: Buddhism and Peacebuilding** International Women"s Partnership for Peace and Justice (IWP) announces a 10 day course for women, 24 July - 2 August 2006, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The objective of the course is to bring together an international community of women to learn and share with one another, focusing on bringing a Buddhist feminist framework to cultivating inner peace while engaging in social action in our communities and the world. - Deadline for registration: 1 June 20066. For more information please visit: http://www.womenforpeaceandjustice.org
http://www.womenforpeaceandjustice.org/allies_for_social_change.htm http://awid.org/go.php?list=announcements&prefix=announcements&item=00234
E-mail : ginger@womenforpeaceandjustice.org – attn: Ginger Norwood
**Conference Know How**, This Conference, held once every four years will be held on 21-26 August 2006 in Mexico City, Mexico. The objective of the Know How Conference 2006 is to advance gender justice and respect for every nation's cultural diversity within the information society, and promote access to information and communication as a fundamental woman"s and human right. For information on the themes to be debated during the Conference, please visit:
http://www.knowhowcommunity.org/scripts/wwwopac.exe?database=knowhow_
_site/what_is.html
Important: Please click website Link to access sub site references:
http://knowhow-pueg.unam.mx/
**Violence Against Women: Diversifying Social Responses** This international conference is organized by Résovi and the Research Centre on Family Violence and Violence Against Women (CRI-VIFF), and will be held on 22-24 October 2006 in Montreal, Canada. This event will enable participants to develop a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of violence against women as well as build and consolidate collaborations between research circles and practitioners and across nations. For more information, please visit: http://www.criviff.qc.ca/colloque/accueil_ang.asp
**Women Lead in Promoting Peace and Stability** CEDPA announces the second workshop in its Women Lead series that will be held 23 October-17 November 2006, Washington, D.C. The objective of the seminar is to strengthen the technical expertise, leadership abilities and program management skills of women working to transform post-conflict societies. For more information on the requirements for participation, workshop themes, please visit:
http://www.cedpa.org/section/training/womenlead
http://www.cedpa.org/section/training/womenlead
**MONEY&MOVEMENTS Women's Rights** The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is organizing this international meeting which will be held 9-11 November 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico. The objective of the meeting is to provide a space where women's rights advocates from diverse backgrounds and working on different issues can engage with each other and with like-minded donors. The deadline for application is 23 June, 2006. For more information on the objectives, the programme for the meeting, selection of participants, registration, funding for transportation and facilities, please visit: http://www.awid.org
E-mail: Zazil Canto, zcanto@awid.org
For the application form (funds available for travel support of participants): http://www.awid.org/moneyandmovements/application_form_1.php
3. INTERVIEWS
**Ndioro Ndiaye**. INSTRAW has interviewed Ms Ndioro Ndiaye, Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration (OIM). Ms Ndiaye explains how the face of migration is becoming increasingly feminized. To read and download the short and long versions of the interview, please visit the INSTRAW website at:
http://www.un-instraw.org/revista/index.php?lang=en&display=interviews&id=1041
http://www.un-instraw.org/revista/index.php?lang=en&display=interviews&id=1042 4. NEW PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS/ARTICLES AND/OR WEBSITES
**Gender Mainstreaming – An Overview** This paper looks at the strategy for promoting gender equality endorsed in the Beijing Platform for Action from the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995: gender . Sales Number: 03.IV.11
ISBN: 9211302420 mainstreaming.
Download at: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/pdf/e65237.pdf
**Articles in honour of centenary of Finland's adoption of gender equality** In 1906 Finland's national assembly, the Eduskunta, became the first parliament in the world to adopt full gender equality. It earned that distinction by granting equally to men and women the right not only to vote but also to stand for election. To honour the centenary, Virtual Finland offers three articles by Salla Korpela that portray Finland as a model of democratic governance: 'Finland's parliament: genuine gender parity', 'When everyone got the vote', and 'Portrait of a Finnish MP'.
http://virtual.finland.fi/
**Status of Women and Freedom of Religion or Belief and Traditions** This United Nations Study is available on the WUNRN website (see link below), in the official French translation and the unofficial English version. The Study on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Status of Women, from the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions (E/CN.4/2002/73/add.2) is a significant UN document on intolerance and discrimination against women based on religion and traditions.
http://www.wunrn.com
http://www.wunrn.com/tandem/tandem.htm
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "193.194.138.190" claiming to be MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious: http://193.194.138.190/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1999.58.En?OpenDocument
**Women"s Earning Power and Well-being** This issue of the "One Pager" publication of the International Poverty Centre (IPC) of the United nations Development Programme (UNDP), deals with women"s earning power and contribution to the household economy. The objective of the One Pager is to raise awareness among a wide audience concerning issues of poverty measurement and policies for the reduction of poverty and inequality. It is written in non-technical language and the IPC hopes that it will generate public debate.
Download at: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/newsletters/OnePager19.pdf
**1000 Peacewomen** This publication demonstrates the work and visions of 1000 women and describes the life and achievements of each woman, whether she works at the grassroots, nationally or internationally. The book is a concise reference instrument for NGOs, relief organizations, governments, as well as peace and women's networks. It is being produced by KONTRAST and internationally published in English by Scalo Publishing, Zurich, Switzerland, on 21 November 2005. To order please contact: http://www.1000peacewomen.org/eng/html/buch/index.php?id=0002
Orders from Switzerland: We are gladly taking your order already today
Orders from outside of Switzerland must be done by fax at the following link:
Please fill in the form. It must be faxed to +41 (0)44 261 92 62 (Scalo, Zurich, Switzerland).
**Female Genital Cutting in the Demographic and Health Surveys A Critical and Comparative Analysis (CR7)** This comparative study presents the results on female genital cutting (FGC) collected from 20 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 1989 to 2002 in 15 countries in Africa and Yemen. The report provides data on the prevalence of FGC among women age 15-49, as well as a review of the issues surrounding FGC that are currently being discussed in the literature. The entire report is available at: http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/CR7/CR7.pdf
**Human Trafficking – Our Response**. ASTRA, a non-governmental organization, in cooperation with the Red Cross Society of Serbia and Montenegro, has created a Peer Education Manual, the first its kind in Serbia. ASTRA"s long standing experience in combat and prevention of trafficking in human beings, and especially as a result of its work with young people has demonstrated that a very useful way in preventing trafficking of human beings is peer education. Realisation of this Manual was supported by Danish Red Cross, the Red Cross of Norway and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. For the moment the Manual is available only in Serbian, and it can be found at: http://www.astra.org.yu/sr/pdf/istrazivanje5 - http://www.astra.org.yu/sr/pdf/istrazivanje5.pdf
**Dossier 27 – Codificaiton of Muslim Personal Laws (MPL)** The codification of Muslim personal laws (MPL) in minority contexts has become an increasing focus of concern for active WLUML networkers in recent years, from Benin to the Philippines, and from South Africa to Canada. A common thread emerges across the contributions in this Dossier - the political manipulation of identity and women"s autonomy by right-wing political forces and the immense difficulties women face in challenging discrimination. This dossier is currently being translated into French and Arabic.
http://www.wluml.org/english/pubsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[87]=i-87-530615
Important: Please click website Link for access to sub site references.
 Download PDF Document
**Gender-Based Violence in Conflict-Affected Settings** the latest publication series of ARC (American Refugee Committee) International addresses the critical global issue of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Conflicted Settings. The publication series was designed specifically to help communities and humanitarian workers to assess the situation in their particular setting and to determine the needs and next steps to implementing comprehensive and multi-sect oral programs to address GBV. http://www.arcrelief.org/site/PageServer?pagename=programs_GBV_bookspage
http://www.arcrelief.org/gbvbooks/cdrom/index.html
For further information or to order hardcopies please contact Connie Kumara, International Health Technical Advisor at Conniek@archq.org
For a complete download, please click on: Complete Download (30.4 MB)
5. CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS/PARTICIPATION
**31st National Conference on Men and Masculinity: Creating Connections for Gender Justice** The conference on Men & Masculinity will be held on 3-6 August 2006, Ramapo College, New Jersey, and the 8th Annual Men's Studies Association Meeting will be held on 4 August 2006 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. during the Men and Masculinity Conference. It is aimed at activists, academics, workers in mental health, diversity, faith communities, domestic and sexual violence. For information on the call for workshop proposals, Scholarships available upon request. Deadline for submissions is 31 May 2006. For complete information on both events, please visit: http://www.nomas.org/ - http://www.nomas.org/conferencemm31.html
**Leadership in Girls" Education: An Essential Component in HIV Prevention**Members of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education makes a call for the submission of papers on HIV and AIDS. The IATT on Education will conduct a session on this issue on 14 August 2006, from 14:15 to 15:45 within the framework of the forthcoming XVI International AIDS Conference, 13-18 August 2006, Toronto, Canada. Documents should be submitted electronically to Nuria Chat at n.chat@unesco.org and the deadline is 24 May 2006. For more information please visit: http://www.unesco.org/aids/iatt
http://portal0.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=10967&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_
SECTION=201.html
E-mail: info-iatt@unesco.org
**Working Papers on Women and International Development** Michigan State University's Women and International Development (MSU-WID) Publication Series invites submissions to this series of papers focusing on the relationships between gender and global transformation. The series addresses a range of topics including women's historical and changing participation in economic and political spheres, intra- and inter-family role relationships, gender identity, women's health and health care, and the gender division of labor. For more information, please visit: http://www.wid.msu.edu/resources/callforpapers.htm
E-mail: papers@msu.edu.
6. GRANT/FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
**HIV/AIDS and Women's and Girls' Property and Inheritance Rights**
ICRW, in partnership with the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA/UNAIDS) and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is implementing a new program that awards one-year grants to eight organizations in sub-Saharan Africa to examine and document links between HIV/AIDS and the absence of women"s and girls" property and inheritance rights.
To read the Information Bulletin that describes our Women"s and Girls' Property and Inheritance Rights project, please visit: http://www.icrw.org/docs/2006_proprghtsinfobull.pdf
7. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
**Media Specialist (Post No. 11692)** UNIFEM seeks a Media Specialist with duty station in New York, United States, to organize and coordinate key media events that will maximize press attention for UNIFEM's strategic areas, thereby ensuring maximum visibility and outreach for UNIFEM's work. The deadline for application is 25 May 2006, and the starting date is 1 July 2006. For more information on the type of post being offered, required expertise and skills, responsibilities, please visit: http://www.unifem.org/about/vacancy_detail.php?VacancyID=31
**Senior Evaluation Specialist** The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Population and Social Transitions Team, seeks a Senior Evaluation Specialist to undertake and further develop the team"s evaluation work on girls" and women"s empowerment, as well as on the broader programmatic research that the team is undertaking on gender, population and development issues. For more information on responsibilities, required skills, academic background and professional experience, please visit: http://www.icrw.org/html/jobs/SrEvaluationSpecialist.htm
E-mail: jobs@icrw.org – Please indicate "Senior Evaluation Specialist" in the subject line of email.
**Gender Links: Editor** Gender Links, a dynamic Southern African NGO based in Johannesburg that promotes gender equality in and through the media, seeks to fill the post of editor as soon as possible on the basis of an initial one- year contract. The deadline for the submission of applications is 24 May 2006. For information on responsibilities, academic and professional requirements, please visit:
http://www.genderlinks.org.za/page.php?p_id=309&PHPSESSID=
2ec30bf26b86ab49a880827896484243
E-mail: admin@genderlinks.org.za
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