INSTRAW News / Noticias del INSTRAW / Nouvelles de INSTRAW
E-Newsletter
September 2006
Table of Contents
1. NEWS
2. EVENTS
3. NEW PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS/ARTICLES/WEBSITES
4. CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
5. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
1. NEWS
**INSTRAW’s Gender Training Wiki** as a groundbreaking initiative,
UN-INSTRAW launched on 28 August 2006 the first-ever Gender “Wiki”, an
online tool facilitating and increasing the exchange of
knowledge-sharing on capacity-building activities and resources
worldwide. Through a free Internet downloadable wiki software, this
kind of website allows users to add, remove, edit and change all content
quickly and easily. In its efforts to embrace the new technologies for
empowering women, the UN-INSTRAW has developed this first-ever “wiki”
specifically devoted to gender issues for all NGOs, popular
organisations, universities and UN agencies around the globe. The
Gender Training Wiki can be visited at the following URL:
http://www.un-instraw.org/wiki/training/index.php/Main_Page
**Women’s
Political Participation** INSTRAW launched on 22 August 2006
its new page on Governance, Gender and Political Participation of Women
at the Local Level. This initiative aims at promoting women’s rights,
equality, participation and political leadership of women in local
governments in Latin America through the exchange of knowledge and the
use of tools and good practices. Also available on this page is all the
information generated by the Project that was initiated in March 2006.
INSTRAW has been implementing this project called “Strengthening
governance with a gender perspective and the political participation of
women at the local level” with the financial support from the Spanish
Agency for International Cooperation (AECI). This page also offers an
online world map with data available on more than 300 gender
institutions in the twelve countries covered by the Project.
www.participacion-politica.org
www.participacion-politica.org
**The Nobel Women’s Initiative** Established in 2006 by sister Nobel
Peace Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Rigoberta
Menchú Tum and Betty Williams, was created to join efforts in promoting
peace with justice and equality, and to help strengthen work being done
in support of women's rights around the world. The Nobel Women’s
Initiative will work to prevent and combat violence against women,
share information, sponsor international meetings, and carry out networking
with a view to action. For more information on the mission, commitment
of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, please visit:
http://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/about.php
**16th Anniversary - 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
Campaign** The Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), at Rutgers,
State University of New Jersey, will hold its 16 Days of Activism
Against Gender Violence Campaign for 2006 from 25 November to 10
December 2006. This year’s Campaign celebrates activists who have made
the campaign a success and honors women human rights defenders who have
suffered intimidation and violence for their activism and/or have given
their lives fighting for gender equality. The 2006 Campaign Take Action
kit, will be available online and in print form in September. To
request a kit please visit:
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/home.html
https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/16days_discussion
E-mail:
cwgl@igc.org
**Gender Statistics Programme (GSP)** The GSP is a regional project
being executed by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(ESCWA) that was conceived and implemented in light of the Beijing
Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women which
recognized the importance of incorporating a gender perspective in
policies related to all areas of society. The GSP aims to enhance
national capabilities in the production, use and dissemination of
gender statistics to lead to more effective policies promoting change for the
benefit of women and the advancement of society as a whole. Since 1997
GSP activities have commenced on both the regional and national levels
in twelve Arab countries. For more information on the GSP and links to
important information for NGOs, research centres, universities,
legislators, women’s advocates and the media, please visit:
http://www.escwa.org.lb/gsp/about/main.html
E-mail: hussain@un.org -
Mr. Ahmed Hussein, Head of Statistics
Coordination Unit
**BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights** BAOBAB For Women's Human Rights is
a not for profit, non-governmental women's human rights organization,
which focuses on women's legal rights issues under the three (3)
systems of law - customary, statutory and religious laws in Nigeria. Its main
objectives are the promotion, development, exercise, defense and
awareness-raising of women’s rights. To learn about BAOBAB’s history,
objectives, strategies, partner organizations, please visit:
http://www.baobabwomen.org/history.htm
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2. EVENTS
**Analyzing the Law from Gender Perspective – Gender Based Violence
Legal Training** This training activity, organized by the Center for
Prevention of Domestic Violence, will take place on 13-19 November
2006, in Belgrade, Serbia. Requirements for participation: A motivation
letter with personal details and CV included. The deadline for application is
15 September 2006. For information on the agenda, financial aid
available, fees, transportation, hotel arrangements and costs, please
contact:
E-mail: tejicm@EUnet.yu - Mirjana Tejic
**Reclaim the Night – Women’s March against rape and male violence**
This year as part of the International Day for the Elimination of
Violence Against Women, FORWARD is participating in Reclaim the Night
2006 March to be held on 25th November 2006. Reclaim the Night is an
event held in central London where women and girls march together in
protest at rape and male violence, falling conviction rates and the
fact that women are not free to live their lives without the threat of male
violence. Last year over 700 women and girls marched to demand an end
to this violence against women and to speak out for ourselves and those
whose voices cannot be heard. More information about Reclaim the Night
can be found visiting: http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/news/events/15.
To get involved or for more information, contact the London Feminist
Network: www.ldnfeministnetwork.ik.com or e-mail
finn_mackay@yahoo.co.uk
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3. NEW PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS/ARTICLES/WEBSITES
**International Poverty Centre (IPC)** The United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) International Poverty Centre intends to publish
regularly an online bulletin, working papers, country studies, online
publications to encourage policy debate and dissemination of knowledge
on key poverty topics. If you are interested in receiving the online
bulletin “In Focus”, country studies, working papers and the “One
Pager”
by email, please visit:
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/newsletters.htm
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/ipcpublications.htm
**The Millennium Development Goals Report 2006** The Millennium
Development Goals Report 2006 is based on a master set of data that has
been compiled by an Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators led
by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations
Secretariat. The Group comprises representatives of the international
organizations whose activities include the preparation of one or more
of the series of statistical indicators that were identified as
appropriate for monitoring progress towards the MDGs, as reflected in the list
appearing on the following page.
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/News.aspx?ArticleId=12
To view the Report please visit:
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progress2006/
MDGReport2006.pdf
**Gender Equality in Sweden** This Summary, published by the Swedish
Government Offices in March 2004. Today, gender equality policy in
Sweden proceeds from an understanding that the unequal distribution of
power between women and men is sustained by what is known as the
gender-based power structure in society. To download the pdf file,
please visit:
http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/Publication____11378.aspx
E-mail:
equality@industry.ministry.se
**Women against Violence Europe – WAVE** The contents of this Manual
evolved during the DAPHNE project BRIDGING GAPS, implemented by WAVE
from April 2005 to March 2006. It is the final result of the project.
The aim of the project was to develop guidelines and standards for good
cooperation between state agencies and women's NGOs. This Manual aims
at contributing to the development and improvement of effective
multi-agency cooperation by providing background information as well as
concrete guidance and recommendations. It is one of the main goals of
this Manual to focus on the protection and safety of victims. To
download the Manual, please visit:
http://www.wave-network.org/cmsimages/doku/homepage_bg_manual_
fromgoodinterventionstogoodcooperation3.pdf
Chapter_motives The print version of the manual can be ordered at the
WAVE office:
office@wave-network.org
Final result of Daphne project Bridging Gaps: Manual "Bridging Gaps -
From good intention to good cooperation" for download
REPORT MAY BE DOWNLOADED FROM WEBSITE LINK.
http://www.wave-network.org/start.asp?b=11
**Violence Against Women in Georgia** Report prepared by the World
Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Georgian Young Lawyers’
Association (GYLA) and submitted on the occasion of the 36th session of
the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
This Report is the result of the experience gained by OMCT’s Violence
Against Women Programme in submitting alternative information to CEDAW
and GYLA’s access to first-hand information on the situation of victims
and its work with authorities and relevant institutions in Georgia.
GYLA has been very active in putting forward legislative and protective
measures aiming at improving the situation of victims of domestic
violence and trafficking. To view full Report, please visit:
http://www.omct.org/pdf/vaw/2006/CEDAW_36th/cedaw36_vaw_in_georgia_en.pdf
http://www.omct.org/base.cfm?page=omct&consol=OPEN&cfid=4071290&cftoken=3601572
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4. CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
**Women Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global** This
three day conference, to be held 4-6 May 2007 at the University of
Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, offers a forum for academics and the
wider community to discuss issues around the theme of women as writers
and readers. The aim of the conference is to explore these issues in
the past and present, and in a local and global context. We invite
contributions from a wide variety of perspectives – social, literary,
artistic, historical, political, economic, scientific, legal,
philosophical, and so on. Deadline for proposals is 28 February 2007.
For more information about the conference, please visit:
http://www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca/wwr_conference
Please send proposals of 300 words to the conference organizers by email
or regular mail to: wwr2007@ualberta.ca
**Engaging men in “Women’s” Issues** Women for Women International, a
non-profit humanitarian organization, seeks submissions for the winter
2007 issue of its bi-annual academic journal, Critical Half. The
journal is intended to raise awareness and spark debate among a variety of
audiences by presenting various perspectives on economic, social, and
political issues as they relate to women in international development
and conflict and post-conflict societies. This issue of the journal
will focus on how men can be engaged to promote positive change in gender
relations at the family, community, and national levels. The submission
deadline is October 15, 2006. Articles should be sent by e-mail. For
submission guidelines, and more information, please visit:
http://www.womenforwomen.org/repubbiannual.htm
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5. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
**Consultant** The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCHR) is looking for a consultant to assist the Special Rapporteur on
Violence Against Women with her study on "Culture and Violence Against
Women". Please send any relevant information, urgently, to our OHCHR
colleague, Mr.Jan Hessbruegge, who assists the Special Rapporteur, at:
jhessbruegge@ohchr.org
Mara Bustelo, Coordinator Human Rights and Economic and Social Issues Unit
Research and Right to Development Branch
E-mail: mbustelo@ohchr.org
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