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Beijing +10: Conference on Women review
In the five years since the adoption of the Protocol to the Africa Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, some 26 countries have ratified Africa's first regional human rights instrument. But with 27 countries yet to do so, the challenge remains to see each African nation commit to fully upholding women's rights.
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Gender-based violence
The Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU), an NGO working on providing specialist assistance in research and advocacy in the field of human rights, democracy and governance, released a video and written report documenting political and human rights violations against women in Zimbabwe.
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Gender in economics
A call for structural, sustainable, gender equitable and rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis. "The recent G-20 decision to replenish International Monetary Fund (IMF) resources is based on an overproduction and overconsumption model that ignores social reproduction, sustainability of the resources of the planet; and is based on a few acting to the exclusion of the many."
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The UN reform... and what about women?
An international coalition of over 300 women's organisations and human rights groups, representing more than 50 countries, is lending its support to a proposal aimed at creating a strong new women's body at the United Nations.
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Reflections on trafficiking crusades
Mon Jun 29 2009 - Source: Zed Books
Reflections on trafficiking crusades "I've written many times in multiple places about how the desire to save prostitutes from misery fails to address what many of them perceive to be preferable in their lives, in the moment." Laura Agustín.
"Paraguayan women have learned to fight for what they want"
Mon May 04 2009 - Source: IPS News
Said activist Line Bareiro, whose track record in defence of human rights has earned her nomination for a place on the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
The men who killed me
Wed Apr 15 2009 - Source: Men Who Killed Me
Fifteen years after the Rwandan genocide, "The Men Who Killed Me" features testimonials from seventeen survivors. Through their narratives and portraits, sixteen women and one man bear witness to the crimes committed against hundreds of thousands of others.

GEAR UP - Gender Equality Architecture Reform
Urgent solidarity needed with women in Nicaragua

Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean Gender in economics The UN reform... and what about women? Gender-based violence
UN reform Cairo +10 - ICPD +10 Migrant sex work Beijing +10: Conference on Women review
The gender gap in education Sexual and reproductive rights Women for peace  

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