[APWW-Meet] AWID 03 September 2008

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The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH): Statement/Letter:
Pakistan: Five women buried alive in total impunity
August 21, 2008
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is deeply shocked =
and
condemns in the strongest terms the killing of five Pakistani women,
including two minors, who were buried alive for having decided to marry =
men
of their choice.
Read more
Press Release: Hivos: Yanar Mohammed wins Women's Rights Prize
Yanar Mohammed is one of three courageous activists to have won this =
year's
Gruber International Women's Rights Prize for Advancing Gender Equality.
Read more
EVENTS

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice: Conference: Crafting Human
Security in an Insecure World
An international working conference to probe and address global =
acquiescence
to impunity, gender violence and exclusion that continues to obstruct
peacebuilding and deny human security is held the September 24 - 26, =
2008 at
the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice in San Diego, CA.
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Junta Isl=E0mica Catalana (Catalonian Islamic Board): Third =
International
Congress on Islamic Feminism=20
October 24-27, 2008
Barcelona, Spain
The conference will be focused on the problems of Muslim women in the =
Global
era. Many Muslim women today are facing a double oppression: economic
(neo-liberalism) and political (religious fundamentalism).
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CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION

Call for Papers: The Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist
Scholarship
The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the competition  =
for
the 2009 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship.
Deadline for papers: September 20, 2008.
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Call for Contributions: Feminist Popular Education: Building pedagogies =
of
possibility
Sought are reflective accounts of community organizing projects and =
popular
education experiences that grapple with the challenges of pursuing
transformative feminist pedagogy in the broader context of neoliberal
globalization.
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NEW RESOURCES
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A New Resource: GenderIT.org: "Cybercrime legislations and gender"
This edition of GenderIT.org examines the issue of cybercrime =
legislation
through a gendered perspective and its implication on women, in
collaboration with  the ICT Policy Monitor Latinamerica and the =
Caribbean
team of the Association for Progressive Communications.
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A New Resource: International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC): "Empower
Women and Girls to Stay HIV-Negative"

Over three billion women worldwide are HIV-negative.They have the right =
to
stay negative.
Globally half of the people living with HIV and AIDS are female.
Biologically, women are more likely than men to acquire HIV. Gender
inequalities and human rights violations heighten girls' and women's
vulnerability.

Read more
A New Resource: ILO: "Unprotected Employment in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip: A GenderEquality and Workers' Rights Perspective"
The nature of employment is rapidly and dramatically changing around the
world, including in Arab States. The increasing flexibility of labour
markets at global and local levels has led to a rise of informal =
employment,
self-employment and atypical forms of employment.
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A New Resource: International Museum of Women (IMOW): September: Her =
vote.
Her voice?
Does a woman's vote mean she really has a say? And is anyone listening,
anyway? If she's got it, does it matter? And if she doesn't, what stands =
in
the way? Discover where the ballot box fits into the evolving world of =
power
and politics, past and present.
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A New Report: "The Nigeria NGO coalition shadow report to the CEDAW
committee"
The Nigerian government ratified CEDAW in 1985 without reservations.
Consequently, it is bound to fulfill all obligations stated in article 2
towards the promotion of the principles of CEDAW. The situation of =
women's
human rights in Nigeria, however, signifies that the Nigerian Government =
is
not carrying out its obligations as CEDAW requires.
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APPEALS AND URGENT ACTIONS
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Urgent Appeal: Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC): Pakistan: Murder of
mother and daughter on the pretext of honour killing
August 29, 2008
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a
mother and daughter were murdered on the pretext of honour killings on
January 28, 2008. The mother's son was forced by the father to take part =
in
the killings. Now, the couple's remaining children are in confinement =
and
not allowed to go outside. Meanwhile, the brother of the deceased mother =
is
in hiding and living in fear of being killed by the decision of the =
'Jirga'
(a tribal assembly of elders).
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FEMNET: Support the Campaign for the Ratification of the Protocol to the
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in
Africa
The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa came into force on the =
25th of
November 2005 - a milestone in the protection and promotion of women's
rights in Africa. Sixteen countries have ratified the Protocol. Now the
struggle for implementing these rights at national level begins!
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