The Global Campaign is designed to address the persistent misuse of religion and culture to justify killing women as punishment for violating the ‘norms’ of sexual behaviour as defined and imposed by vested interests. Download the concept paper here!
From 25 November 25 to 10 December 2007, the Women's International Network of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN) will highlight the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence with a second Annual Internet campaign.
A review of the recently published Zed Books/AWID publication: "Building Feminist Movements and Organisations: Global Perspectives", edited by Lydia Alpízar Durán, Noël D. Payne and Anahi Russo.
"La tentative d’expulsion a été déjouée grâce à la formidable mobilisation et solidarité locale, nationale et internationale organisée avec l’association, même si aujourd’hui la reconduction du contrat d’occupation n’est toujours pas formalisée."
Sunila Abeysekera, Executive Director of Information Monitor (INFORM), a FORUM-ASIA member organisation based in Sri Lanka, has been chosen for the prestigious Human Rights Watch’s Global Human Rights Defender Award 2007.
The campaign started in 2005, where the center discovered that there was no relevant data on the issue, nor studies nor statistics or researches were done at that time."
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights developed this website as a tool for the promotion of women's human rights in countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU). Information in English with links to materials in Russian.
