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Week of 4th August 2008

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In this Issue
Program Director, Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons
Program Director, Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons
Programme Specialist, Gender Justice and Human Rights
Women's Economic Leadership Programme Manager
Temporary Full-Time Policy Officer
Program Officer, International Women's Program
Program Manager
Campaign Organizer - Stop Violence Against Women
Evaluation Consultants for the Project "Strengthening Women's Legal
Rights
in Aceh"
Interim Programme Coordinator, CEDAW Southeast Asia
Programme-Timor-Leste
Communications and Resource Mobilization Specialist - Ending Violence
Against Women
Consultant: Project Evaluator
Humanitarian Programme Specialist, Youth & Gender ICS 10 (L-3)
Technical Specialist on Conditions of Work and Employment/Gender
Equality
Senior Research and Evaluation Associate, Asia
Senior Research and Evaluation Associate, Africa
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Program Director, Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons / Global
Rights
/ Washington, DC, USA.
Global Rights: Partners for Justice is an international human rights
capacity building group that partners with organizations and activists
around the world to strengthen their ability to promote human rights, to
challenge injustice and to amplify diverse voices within the global
discourse on human rights.

Programme Specialist, Gender Justice and Human Rights / UNIFEM Southern
Sudan / Juba, Southern Sudan / Closing date: August 11, 2008.
The United Nations Development Fund for Women's (UNIFEM) mandate
provides
for the support to catalytic and innovative activities that promote
gender
equality, women's empowerment and human rights. For the Sudan, though
women
form the majority of the population, they are the least in terms of
access
to resources as well as gender equality.

Women's Economic Leadership Programme Manager / Oxfam GB / Colombo, Sri
Lanka / Closing date: August 08, 2008.
The PWEL Programme Manager will have a critical role in developing PWEL
implementation and advocacy strategies, increasing local capacity and
generating case studies and other learning materials to inform the Sri
Lanka
programme and the global PWEL initiative.

Temporary Full-Time Policy Officer / The European Policy Action Centre
on
Violence against Women (EPACVAW) / Brussels, Belgium / Closing date:
August
10, 2008.
The European Policy Action Centre on Violence against Women (EPACVAW) is
a
branch of the European Women's Lobby (EWL) with the aim to facilitate
and
develop the work of its Observatory on violence against women. The EWL
Observatory is an expert group composed of women from more than 30
countries

Program Officer, International Women's Program / Open Society Institute
(OSI) / New York, NY, USA / Closing date: August 29, 2008.
The International Women's Program (IWP), a program of the Open Society
Institute, promotes the advancement of women's human rights, gender
equality, and empowerment as an integral part of the process of
democratization. The IWP encourages, supports, and initiatives
gender-inclusive projects in the countries of the Soros foundations
network.

Program Manager / Watchlist on Children and Armed
Conflict  / New York, NY, USA / Closing date: August 22, 2008.
The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict is an NGO network that
monitors
and reports on violations against the security and rights of children
and
adolescents in specific situations of armed conflict. Watchlist uses
this
information to urge action by the UN Security Council, other UN agencies
and
appropriate governments.

Campaign Organizer - Stop Violence Against Women / Amnesty International
(AI) / London, UK / Closing date: August 06, 2008.
As a Campaign Organiser in the Stop Violence Against Women Campaign
(SVAW)
team, you will lead an implementation of the daily campaigning
activities of
the SVAW campaign including scheduling, monitoring, undertaking and
reporting of major pieces of work.

Evaluation Consultants for the Project "Strengthening Women's Legal
Rights
in Aceh" / UNIFEM East and Southeast Asia Regional Office / Deadline for
Application: 31 October 2008.
Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD or Aceh) was still a conflict-torn region
when
the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 struck. The impact of the
disaster was devastating to Acehnese communities emotionally,
economically,
socially and environmentally. Aceh, more than any other place, bore the
brunt of the disaster with estimates of 130,000 deaths, 37,000 missing
and
nearly 500,000 internally displaced persons living in barracks,
makeshift
camps and host communities. The majority of victims are believed to be
women.

Interim Programme Coordinator, CEDAW Southeast Asia
Programme-Timor-Leste /
UNIFEM East and Southeast Asia Regional Office / Dili, Timor-Leste /
Closing
date: August 15, 2008.
The Interim Programme Coordinator will manage the implementation of the
country workplan of the CEDAW SEAP towards the successful completion of
programme activities in Timor Leste for the first phase of the
Programme.
The Interim Programme Coordinator will also assist the UNIFEM Country
Programme Manager by providing management support to the execution of
gender
mainstreaming initiatives to identified line ministries as part of
capacity
building efforts to promote CEDAW implementation in Timor-Leste.

Communications and Resource Mobilization Specialist - Ending Violence
Against Women / UNIFEM / New York, NY, USA / Closing date: August 17,
2008.
UNIFEM is searching for an experienced professional committed to gender
equality who can bring the necessary expertise to develop a multi-year,
multi-pronged, multi-media communications and fundraising strategy to
achieve advocacy, outreach and resource mobilization goals on ending
violence against women. To reach new audiences and funders, a strong
communications background is essential, including use of the internet
and
modern technologies.

Consultant: Project Evaluator / UNIFEM / Skopje, FYR Macedonia /
Application
Deadline: August 23, 2008.
The evaluation will be carried out between September 15 and October 30
2008,
and will be for a total of 15 working days. The purpose of this
evaluation
is to provide an independent in-depth assessment of the results of the
project "Establishing unified and positive practices in combating
domestic
violence in Macedonia".

Humanitarian Programme Specialist, Youth & Gender ICS 10 (L-3) / UNFPA /
New
York, NY, USA / Closing date: August 07, 2008.
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international
development
agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a
life
of health and equal opportunity.

Technical Specialist on Conditions of Work and Employment/Gender
Equality //
International Labour Organization (ILO) // Budapest, Hungary // Closing
date: August 31, 2008.
The incumbent will be responsible for providing policy advice and
technical
assistance to ILO's constituents on a number of working conditions'
dimensions, namely maternity protection, work and family reconciliation,
working time and pay equity all of which contribute to the achievement
of
gender equality in the world of work.

Senior Research and Evaluation Associate, Asia / Ipas / Chapel Hill,
North
Carolina, USA.
Ipas, a global, non-profit reproductive health organization, seeks a
Senior
Research and Evaluation (R&E) Associate, Asia, based in North Carolina,
available immediately. The Senior Associate will have responsibility for
research on medical abortion and women's perspectives on abortion, and
technical support to Ipas's country programs in Asia and possibly, other
regions.

Senior Research and Evaluation Associate, Africa / Ipas / Chapel Hill,
North
Carolina, USA.
Ipas, a global, non-profit reproductive health organization, seeks a
Senior
Research and Evaluation (R&E) Associate, Africa, based in Chapel Hill,
North
Carolina, available immediately. The Senior Associate will have
responsibility for oversight of a new, significant, multi-year grant for
research on abortion in Africa.

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