UN-INSTRAW
participated in the Workshop
organized by the Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines held on 15 January
2008, Geneva ,
Switzerland .
The objective of the workshop was to obtain inputs from the
participants for
the preparation of a training
kit on
gender and mine action which will help in developing projects and
programmes on
this issue. UN-INSTRAW’s presentation focused on how to collect data
disaggregated by age and sex, how to involve local stakeholder and
women's
organizations, and how to measure the success of Mine Action Programmes
from a
gender perspective. The objective is to make such programmes more
comprehensive
and responsive to the different needs of men, women, boys and girls
affected by
land mines.As many as 78 nations are
affected by landmines while 85 are affected by explosive remnants of
war.
Today, there are nearly 500,000 landmine survivors, of whom three
quarters are
civilians.
First Forum of
the United Nations Alliance
of Civilizations
The Director of UN-INSTRAW, Ms Carmen
Moreno, attended the
First Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations held on
15-17
January 2008 in Madrid ,
Spain .The Forum gathered over 300 representatives
of international regional organizations, donor agencies, diplomats,
media
leaders, academia, grassroots and civil society with the objective of
presenting twelve strategic points for the promotion of collaboration
between
East and West through the creation of joint programmes and projects.
Amongst
the measures proposed at the Forum are: involving foundations and
private
enterprises in making important economic contributions to the
information and
communications fields, the creation of a Solidarity Fund that motivates
more
employment for the youth, the creation of a mechanism whereby global
experts
will assist the media in dealing with important transcultural crises
and the
promotion of educational programmes.In
2009, the Forum will meet again in
Turkey .
UN-INSTRAW
joins the world in condemning the
assassination on 27 December 2007 of Ms. Benazir Bhutto, leader of the
Pakistan
People’s Party and former Prime Minister, and conveys its most
heartfelt
condolences to Ms. Bhutto’s family and to the people and government of
Pakistan .
The global community has lost an important woman leader whose
participation in
politics and democracy created opportunities for women in
Pakistan
and throughout the world.
Gender, Migration and
Remittances Programme
UN-INSTRAW
has continued pursuing activities that fall under the Gender,
Migration and Remittances Programme, including the following:
1) Joint project with the
Dominican NGO “TUMUJER” on Remittances and
Co-development
being implemented in the eastern part of the city of Santo Domingo,
whereby
UN-INSTRAW provides support in mainstreaming the gender perspective
within the
project and in joint activities for generating a national political
dialogue on
the positive impact of migration for gender-sensitive development.
Within the
framework of this agreement, the Institute presented a paper on
“Migration and
Development:Limitations from a gender
perspective” at a national seminar on “Remittances and Development held
in
Santiago de los Caballeros on 4 December 2007;
2)Joint
agreement
with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to
implement
the project “Enhancing the Gender-Sensitive Impact of Remittances for
Rural
Development”. The Institute’s role in this project is to: a) determine
the
areas of intervention in order to positively link migration/remittances
and
rural development; and b) establish a common frame of supervision and
follow-up
for all intervention projects that are financed by IFAD within this
framework.
3) The Institute
has signed an agreement with ALMA MATER, a network which gathers 14
public
universities from the Coffee-growing Region in
Colombia with the objective
of
including the gender perspective in the Masters Degree Programme on
International Migrations, and participating in teaching a module within
the
Programme, as well as carrying out collaborative research.
4) UN-INSTRAW
has recently published on its website four working papers on the
Institute’s
theoretical framework, guiding its work during 2007: Feminization of
migrations; Global care chains; Remittances;
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Gender, Governance and
Women’s
Political Participation Programme
The printed version of
the two studies entitled “Women’s
Political Participation in Latin America
at
the Local Level” by Alejandra Massolo and “Political Participation of
Indigenous Women in Governance Processes and Local Governments” by
Claudia
Ranaboldo, Gilles Cliches and Antonieta Castro, has been completed.
Capacity-building activities in connection to these studies are being
organized
for implementation in Ecuador
and Guatemala and
it is
expected that similar activities will be implemented in
Costa Rica and
Bolivia in the first
trimester of
2008.
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Global Gender News
International
Human Rights Day
On the
occasion of Human Rights Day, December 10th 2007, Louise Arbour, the
United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on national actors,
governments, civil society and human rights institutions to reaffirm
their
commitment to the values and principles of the Universal Declaration of
Human
Rights.This Day marks the 60th
Anniversary of the UN General Assembly's adoption of the Universal
Declaration
of Human Rights. Over the years, a whole network of human rights
instruments
and mechanisms has been developed to ensure the primacy of human rights
and to
confront human rights violations wherever they occur.In
this framework, Ms Arbour referred to the
theme of the year-long campaign launched by United Nations Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon - “Dignity and Justice for All of Us” - and expressed her
wish that
during this period the human rights agenda would be widely endorsed by
all
United Nations Member States.Read
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Iran
to Launch Police Stations for Women
Iran
plans to set up police stations in
Tehran that will be run by
women police officers who will deal only with offences committed by
women.Two such police stations have already
been
launched in the religious, northeastern city of
Mashad .Women police officers, who previously had been appointed in
administrative departments, have been increasingly involved over the
past few
years in the enforcement of Islamic rules when dealing with female
criminals.
US$13 Million Grant Boosts African Women Scientists in Agriculture
The African
Women in Agricultural
Research and Development (AWARD) launched on 5 December 2007 a
US$13
million pan-African initiative to increase the role of women scientists
in
agriculture. One of the main objectives of the initiative is to
increase the
number of women scientists on the continent, provide role models and
address
institutional biases that limit women’s participation in agricultural
research http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=printarticle&rgwid=4&item=News&itemid=4114&language=1
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The Vienna
Forum to Fight Human Trafficking
This Forum, which is being
organized under the framework of the United
Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT), aims to mobilize State and
non-State players to eradicate human
trafficking and will take place on 13-15
February 2008 in Vienna ,
Austria .
Amongst the Forum’s
objectives are to:allow for an
open environment to enable all parties involved to take concrete steps
to fight
human trafficking within their spheres of action; act as a catalyst for
solution-seeking ideas; increase knowledge and awareness on human
trafficking;
promote effective rights-based responses; and build capacity of state
and
non-state players and foster partnerships and cooperation between the
public
and private sectors and civil society.MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.ungift.org" claiming to be http://www.ungift.org:80/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=369&Itemid=681 ………………………………………………………………………
TheWorld Conference of Women’s Shelters
The World Conference
of
Women’s Sheltersto be
hosted by theAlberta Council of Women's Shelters
invites
individuals/organizations devoted to the issue of violence against
women, to
present papers at this event.The
Conference is hosted by the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters (ACWS)
and will
be held 8-11 September 2008 in Edmonton ,
Alberta , Canada .The event will provide the opportunity to
share knowledge, ideas about a theme that is often overlooked when
discussing
family violence and will increase the capacity of shelters worldwide to
increase
networking and bring about positive changes in their organizations and
their
communities when dealing with family violence.
Read more about the conference programme, workshop topics and procedure
for the presentation of papers at: http://www.womenshelter.ca/home_en.php
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Women's
World Summit
Foundation - Call for Nominations
- WWSF PRIZE for Women’s
Creativity in Rural Life2008
TheWomen’s World Summit
Foundation
requests nominations for its 15th annual PRIZE for
Women’s Creativity in Rural Life Award, honouring
creative and courageous women and women’s organisations working to
improve the
quality of life in rural communities around the world. Prize winners
will
again be selected in 2008 and several of them will be invited to
Geneva to
personally
present their work at an award ceremony on 15 October – World Day for
rural
women, which has been declared last November an official United Nations
Resolution Day.Nominations, following
the guidelines attached,
should arrive no later than 31March
2008.
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