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Dear apww-meet subscribers:

The following announcements come from the RESOURCE NET an online
information newsletter circulated by the by The Association for Women's
Rights in Development (AWID). I have pulled out those items that may be
of interest to the Asia-Pacific region. There are a total of 8 items.
This may be easier than sending a series of individual messages.

I hope you find this useful.

With regards,
Luz
apww-meet moderator



(1) International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC): With Women Worldwide:
A
Compact to End HIV/AIDS

Source: International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)

[Please note: The information below has been adapted directly from the
source.]

For more than two decades, IWHC and its colleagues worldwide have helped
to
shape international policy so that it works to ensure the health and
rights
of women, girls and all people. In preparation for the critical 2006
HIV/AIDS deliberations, IWHC recently convened in Bangkok a group of
women
advocates reflecting diverse substantive and geographic perspectives and
decades of expertise in HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health,
sexuality, gender, the experiences of women living with AIDS, and human
rights. They developed "With Women Worldwide-A Compact to End HIV/AIDS"
as
a tool for use in 2006 and beyond.

For further information and to access this tool, please visit
http://www.iwhc.org/withwomenworldwide/index.cfm
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(2) Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey: Conflict Analysis and
Resolution
Program

Source: Sabanci University

[Please note: The information below has been adapted directly from the
source.]

The Program on Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Sabanci University in
Istanbul, Turkey is accepting applications for the 2008 - 09 academic
year.
The CAR program is the only Master's program of its kind in Southeastern
Europe, taking a regional lead in training a new cadre of conflict
prevention specialist and peacemakers from Turkey and countries around
the
world.

The M.A. program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution gives students
skills
to analyze and understand conflict at inter-personal, inter-group and
international levels. Core programmatic components include: aspects of
negotiation, mediation, third party intervention, ethnic conflict,
issues
related to post-conflict reconstruction, reconciliation, psychosocial
aspects of conflict, and media and conflict. The scholar-practitioner
model
is emphasized, providing students with a strong theoretical background
as
well as means for applying their knowledge to real-world settings. M.A.
students in Conflict Analysis and Resolution go on to hold positions in
organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme, Google,
the
Turkish Foreign Ministry, and private mediation consulting firms. They
have
also successfully pursued doctoral degrees in related fields at a
variety
of Turkish, European and U.S. institutions.

Applicants must have completed their previous degree programs by
September
3, 2008, at the latest.

A limited number of scholarships based on academic achievement are
available in the form of partial or full tuition waivers and/or
stipends.

Deadline: June 1, 2008 is the deadline for regular applications.

For more information, please go to
http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/ssbf/conf/eng/
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(3) South Asia Forum for Human Rights: Seventh South Asian Orientation
Course in Human Rights and Peace Studies

Source: South Asia Forum for Human Rights

[Please note: The information below has been adapted directly from the
source.]

The course will have a three months long distance learning beginning
between 1 July 2008 and 30 September 2008; and, a two-week long Direct
Orientation in November 2008 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The distance-learning will be conducted on SAFHR's secure e-learning
platform. Participants will also receive the course material on CDs.
However, familiarity with e-learning skills and proficiency in the
English
language are essential.

Between twenty to twenty-five participants, preferably between ages 25
and
45, will be selected on the basis of the nature and the quality of their
involvement with the issues of human rights, peace, democracy and
development in the region. Each applicant has to send a filled in
application form, mentioning where he or she has seen the course
advertisement, with two references, and a 1000-word essay explaining the
relation of the applicant's work to human rights and peace studies and
reasons for applying for the course. The selection will be guided by the
necessity to have a balanced representation of participants from all the
countries in the region, women activists, refugee activists, media
practitioners, members of minority groups, researchers, academics,
policy
makers, leaders of non-governmental organizations and government
officials.
A maximum of three participants from outside South Asia will be
selected.

For the direct orientation, the participants will have to find their own
funding to travel. SAFHR will provide boarding and lodging. A limited
number of fellowship for travel is available. This will be granted on
the
basis of separate application by selected candidates.

The selected participants from South Asia will have to deposit a
registration fee of US $ 100 by June 30, 2008. Participants from outside
South Asia have to pay US $ 400. The enrollment of the participants will
be
confirmed only after that.

Please note: The last date for receiving applications is 31 May 2008.

For further information on the course structure, content and
methodologies
and to read the fifth course report, please see website below.
Electronic,
facsimile and postal submissions are acceptable. Those sending the
applications by post or courier should do so to the SAFHR at the
following
address:

South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR)
3/23 Shree Durbar Tole, Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur
G. P. O. Box; 12855, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: 00977 1 5541026 Fax: 00977 1 5527852
E-mail: peacestudies@safhr.org

For further information (including application form), please visit
http://www.safhr.org/SeventhOriCourses2008.html

(4) Call for Proposals/Papers: Gender and Development Journal, Oxfam:
Gender
and Climate Change

Source: WUNRN

[Please note: The information below has been adapted directly from the
source.]

The March 2009 issue of the international journal Gender and
Development,
(published for Oxfam GB by Routledge/Taylor and Francis) will focus on
Climate Change. Please note: this new issue follows the first
pathbreaking
issue on this topic which we published in 2002 (Vol. 10 No. 2). You can
view the articles from this issue on our website ?
http://www.genderanddevelopment.org:80/

Deadline for Proposals: 10 June 2008

For the new issue, Gender and Development requests ideas for articles
from
researchers, practitioners and activists.

- What have we learned from gender analysis of the impact of climate
change
on women, men and gender power relations?

- How are women responding to climate change - in terms of grassroots
adaptation, and activism at all levels to halt further change?

- What are activists doing nationally and internationally to ensure
gender
issues are integrated into climate change agendas?

- What insights do we now have on how climate change is affecting
development, poverty alleviation and the empowerment of women?

How should development projects and programmes be adapted and designed
to
respond?

If you would like to write on any of the above, or have other ideas
about
articles the Gender and Development Journal should commission, please
send
a paragraph outlining your proposed idea to gadeditor@oxfam.org.uk, as
soon
as possible, and before the commissioning deadline: 10 June 2008.

Commissioned articles will need to be completed for a deadline of 8
September 2008.

Gender and Development particularly welcomes contributions from
first-time
writers and there will be necessary support provided for you to share
your
development experience and expertise through the journal.

Gender and Development provides a forum for development policymakers,
practitioners and researchers, and feminist activists to share insights,
analyses and concepts that promote and support dignified, decent and
sustainable development, founded on equality between women and men.
Gender
and Development aims to meet the needs of development policymakers and
practioners for information which enables them to 'do gender' in their
work. Published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis for Oxfam GB, the
journal
has become essential reading for all concerned with gender-fair
development. Gender and Development is currently read in over 90
countries.

Please note: Gender and Development has an editorial policy of
publishing
in clear, jargon-free English, in order to be of use to the widest
possible
readership. Practitioners and activists, as well as researchers, are
invited
to write for us, and editorial support is available for all writers who
would like it.

For more information about the journal (including full guidelines for
contributors), please visit: www.genderanddevelopment.org
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(5) A New Resource: WLP: "Making IT Our Own: Information and
Communication
Technology Training of Trainers Manual"

Source: Women's Learning Partnership (WLP)

By: Rakhee Goyal, Marion Marquardt, and Usha Venkatachallam
With foreward by: Mahnaz Afkhami
Published by: Women's Learning Partnership (WLP)
Published: 2008

[Please note: The information below has been adapted directly from the
source.]

Women's Learning Partnership's newest publication, seeks to improve the
technology skills of women activists and to introduce ways in which
Information Technology (IT) can be used for human rights and women's
rights
advocacy. Intended for use in information and communication technology
(ICT)
training workshops and training-of-trainer institutes, the Manual
encourages
activists to establish ownership of ICTs so that women can be both
consumers
of information and producers of knowledge.

"Making IT Our Own" takes an assemble-your-own approach to training by
providing the necessary components-guidelines for participatory
facilitation, step-by-step 'how to's for each technology tool, resources
on
CD, and an assortment of pre-assembled agendas so that the Manual can be
easily customized to suit the cultural and technical requirements of any
community. The Manual uses scenarios to contextualize ICT use in
everyday
life, explore issues related to gender and technology, and facilitate
participation in advocacy campaigns that help empower women.

The Manual was tested and adapted in ICT training sessions held in
cooperation with Afghan Institute of Learning, Afghanistan; Collective
for
Research and Training on Development-Action, Lebanon; and Sisterhood Is
Global Institute/Jordan. It focuses on gaining fluency in the following
technology tools: Web 2.0 applications such as social networks and
blogs;
office productivity software such as word processing and spreadsheets;
internet tools such as RSS feeds and conference chat; and skills that
ensure online privacy and security.

For further information and to order the manual, please visit
http://www.learningpartnership.org/fr/publications/training/ict

(6) WLUML: Iran: More women's rights defenders sentenced

Source: Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)

[Please note: The information below has been adapted directly from the
source.]

May 12, 2008

Four women's rights activists, Nasrin Afzali, Nahid Jafari, Zeinab
Peighambar-zadeh, and Minou Mortazi, have been given suspended sentences
of
whipping (10 lashes) and six months imprisonment. They have been given
this
harsh sentence for having been part of a small group of people who
gathered
outside the Revolutionary Court in March, 2007 to register their
objections
to the trial of five other women activists earlier charged for taking
part
in a peaceful demonstration in 2006 to demand the removal of laws
discriminating against women.

What you can do

You can contact to the Iranian authorities and the embassy of Iran in
your
home country via letter, email, fax and/or telephone.

For further information (including sample letter and contact addresses),
please visit
http://www.wluml.org/english/actionsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B156%5D=3Di-156-56=
1
595
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(7) MADRE: Emergency in Burma: Help women rebuild

Source: ReliefWeb

[Please note: The information below has been adapted directly from the
source.]

May 13, 2008

More than a week after tropical Cyclone Nargis struck, over 60,000
people
are feared dead and another 30,000 reported missing. Contaminated water
is
causing outbreaks of cholera and other diseases, pushing the death toll
even higher, and many people have no food.

On May 12, the Burmese government finally allowed relief workers into
the
country. But the government continues to limit people's access to
humanitarian aid. While international aid agencies are hampered by the
government's intransigence, MADRE is working directly with progressive
women's organizations on the ground in affected areas.

MADRE is working with the Women's Human Rights Defenders Network and
three
Burmese women's organizations to:

- reunite families torn apart in the chaotic aftermath of the cyclone;
- rebuild shelter for women and families;
- and provide psychological counselling to traumatized children.

You can help

MADRE learned from their work with women's organizations in the
aftermath
of the 2004 tsunami that, in order to best identify and meet the
communities' needs, local women's organizations must be supported.

With your contributions, it can be ensured that survivors of the cyclone
have access to basic and life-saving services. Together, we can make
sure
that women's needs and rights are prioritized as relief and
reconstruction
processes in Burma move forward.

Visit MADRE's website to make a donation. Consider devoting part or all
of
your Economic Stimulus Payment.

For further information and to make a donation, please visit
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/KKAA-7EL337?OpenDocument=3Dw=
o
men
and/or http://www.madre.org/
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(8) Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR): Call for
Action
against RSHR violations in conflict situations

Source: Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)

[Please note: The information below has been adapted directly from the
source.]

Thousands of women across the globe are subjected to sexual violence,
abuse, torture and rape throughout conflict situations. In the South
Kivu
province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 4500 cases of sexual
abuse were reported during the first six months of 2007 alone. There
continues to be a global pattern of, often extreme, sexual and
gender-based
violence in conflict situations, which is frequently dismissed as an
inevitable and unavoidable by-product of conflict. Consequently, women
survivors suffer physical and psychological health complications and
economic and social exclusion; they often have no access to health care,
including the necessity for access to safe and legal abortion services.
With more than 50 countries currently in the midst of armed conflict and
the unabated violation of women's reproductive and sexual health rights
being reported in every international and domestic war zone, WGNRR's
Call
for Action in 2008: Stop conflict being waged against women's bodies!
Hold
local, national and international actors accountable for securing
women's
reproductive and sexual health and rights! The Call for Action will be
launched worldwide on May 28th, the International Day of Action for
Women's
Health, through different events.

For further information and to download the call for action, please
visit
http://www.wgnrr.org/home.php

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