International

Africa: Call for participants: "Building African Women’s Movements"

A Movement-Building Institute (November 19-22, 2007), Johannesburg

Mondiale: Leïla Marouane: sans chaînes ni maître

La plus rebelle des écrivaines algériennes use de mots simples pour se raconter.

International: 'Women in Black' will hold their 14th International Encounter in Valencia, Spain (16-20 August 2007)

Women in Black is an international network of feminist, antimilitarist women who work for peace, are against war, denounce violence - specifically against women - and promote feminine participation in the resolution of conflicts and in peace negotiations.

Mondiale: Valencia, siege de la XIV rencontre internationale des Femmes en Noir (16-20 Août)

Les Femmes en noir est un réseau international de femmes féministes et antimilitaristes qui travaillent pour la paix.

International: "Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms" - An AWID advocacy research project

This initiative, builds on the work of AWID's "Challenging Fundamentalisms" website project which was a joint project with Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and Rights and Democracy.

WLUML Newsletter 4

This issue, with an improved format, features the addition of 'Activists Reflections', which present a selection of the articles we received in response to our online Call for Submissions. Reflecting the transnational nature and philosophy of the WLUML network, the articles and reports included in this newsletter range from Growing Talibanisation in Pakistan to Expanding International Legal Protections for Victims of Gender-Based Violence in Iraqi Kurdistan and the lobbying of the Gambian Committee Against Traditional Practices.

International: The Montréal Principles: as adopted at a meeting of experts in December 2002 in Montréal, Canada.

These principles guide the interpretation and implementation of the guarantees of non-discrimination and equal exercise and enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights, found in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

International: The WISE initiative: "Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equity"

Muslim women, who will meet in Malaysia later this year, are pursuing a 10-year plan for advancing women's worldwide leadership within Islam.

Middle East: New technologies and women in Arab countries: a forest of concepts, a complex reality

"Human Rights Watch holds that internet empowers people in the exercise of their right “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas regardless of frontiers” and in the Arab region...the increase of users is one of the strongest in the world."

International: Isis-WICCE's International Exchange Programme Institute (October 2007)

The theme of the Institute is Human Rights, Human Security and Participation: Documenting Women's Experiences in Situations of Armed Conflict. The first phase of the Institute will take place in the last two weeks of October 2007 in Liberia, West Africa.