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19/8/2007
UN: ECOSOC adopts texts on Palestinian women, violence against girls from report of the Commission on Status of Women
Although voted against by Canada and the US, a resolution was adopted calling for continued international assistance to Palestinian women and their families.
19/8/2007
International: Publication: "Women, Feminism and Fundamentalism"
"Women, Feminism and Fundamentalism", edited by Ireen Dubel and Karen Vintges (HIVOS: 2007)
19/8/2007
International: Pinar Illkkaracan wins the 2007 Gruber Women's Rights Prize
We are proud pleased to announce congratulate that Global Fund grantee, Pinar Illkkaracan, co-founder of Women for Women's Human Rights in Turkey is for winning the 2007 recipient of the Gruber Women's Rights Prize.
19/8/2007
Philippines: New study shows Manila's ban on contraceptives leads to health crisis
Human rights groups call on new mayor to revoke the ban.
18/8/2007
Sierra Leone: Women politicians reluctant to campaign against FGM
Promising to fight the practice of FGM should be a winning strategy for someone hoping to be elected to parliament this Saturday in Sierra Leone -- where about 90 percent of girls and women undergo FGM, according to rights watchdog Amnesty International.
18/8/2007
Madagascar: The Government of Madagascar has raised the legal age of marriage
UNICEF congratulated the government of Madagascar on two new laws to reinforce child protection, including increasing the legal age of marriage to eighteen years.
18/8/2007
Liberia: Women begin using law to prosecute rapists in Liberia
Rape has been a tool of war in Liberia, but revised penalties may turn the tide.
17/8/2007
Turkey: Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival hosted the 1st Intercontinental Meeting of Women in Cinema
The film festival was held in May 2007 to "create a written and oral history of women in the cinema industry" with the intention of maintaining and improving relations between Turkish and foreign women film makers by bringing them together.
17/8/2007
International: Capacity-building opportunity: Women Peacemakers Program
Call for applications: Nonviolence Education and Training (NVET)
17/8/2007
Uganda: Bride Price - Can abolition end violence against women?
Many Ugandans, especially from western, northern and eastern Uganda, take pride in bride price. However, the people of Tororo district, through Mifumi Project, recently filed a petition in the Constitutional Court seeking to abolish it.