Archive for April 21st, 2008
A Summer Institute/Training for Educators, Students, Human Service Professionals, Activists and Parents July 8-11 2008 at Wheelock College, Boston. For the 14th consecutive year, Wheelock College is offering a very popular summer institute on the role that the media (television, magazines, advertising, pornography, video games and music videos) plays in shaping our gender identity, our [...]
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) in San Diego, California, is currently accepting applications for its Women PeaceMakers Program (WPM). Application Deadline: May 23, 2008 The WPM program is designed for leaders from conflict-affected countries around the world who are transforming conflict and assuring gender-inclusion in post conflict recovery through in [...]
New Report Points to Gaping Holes in Recovery and Calls for Action “They tried deliberately to separate our children from us. I was one that fought for my child. . . . I told [the National Guard] he may as well take that rifle and start putting bullet holes in my head cause I’m getting [...]
UN-INSTRAW is establishing a Community of Practice on Gender Training with the objective of: * bringing together practitioners/experts in the field of gender training for dialogue and exchange of experiences; * carry out a series of virtual dialogues on gender training, in particular identifying challenges and ways to move forward; * building on UN-INSTRAW’s Gender [...]
Maryland’s highest court said yesterday that a woman who agrees to have sex can change her mind after intercourse has begun, and that a man who refuses to stop can be charged with rape. The holding by the Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by the state’s lower appeals court, which in 2006 cited court [...]
Committee on Social, Health and Family Affairs Rapporteur: Mrs Christine McCAFFERTY, United Kingdom, Socialist Group I. Committee Conclusions 1. The Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee thanks the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men and its rapporteur, for its excellent report, which highlights the significant challenges that Europe faces, in providing access to [...]
The Norwegian government proposed on Friday to fine or jail clients of prostitutes for up to six months in a bid to stamp out human trafficking, and said the law would also apply to its citizens abroad. Norway signalled in mid-2007 that it would make it a criminal offence to buy services from prostitutes, following [...]
Funding should be based on what works, not on what fits a conservative world-view(*) The US government’s increased funding for HIV and Aids is positive (US House votes to spend $50bn fighting Aids and helping orphans in developing countries, April 4). However, we would question your article’s assertion that “the campaign against Aids could stand [...]
A decline in international funding for reproductive health and family planning services is threatening efforts to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which include improving maternal and infant health, according to a United Nations report released last week at a conference, Inter Press Service reports. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said a significant decline in funding [...]
When the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held a special high-level meeting to discuss the new challenges facing the international community, the focus was largely on the credit crisis, rising commodity prices, declining development aid and the devastating impact of climate change on developing nations. But one of the gender-sensitive issues — the feminization [...]
30 Years of Democracy: Riding the Wave? Women’s Political Participation in Latin America The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) has released the report entitled “30 Years of Democracy: Riding the Wave? Women’s Political Participation in Latin America. The report draws data from 18 countries in the Latin American region, exams the progress [...]
Women in Brazil’s slums are increasingly caught in the middle of violence between drug gangs and police, with many being lured into the narcotics trade, Amnesty International said on Thursday. New laws protecting women’s rights in Latin America’s largest country have been undermined by a lack of resources, brutal police tactics and discrimination within the [...]
Although men don’t run away from the wrath of war and Genocide, women suffer from the effects of war and Genocide in an unusual way. Considering the specific dangers of war and Genocide during and after the Genocide, the Humanitarian law would have a specific way to handle the weak vessels. Suffering confronting women in [...]
Update on: Iran: Campaign to free Khadijeh Moghaddam Khadijeh Moghaddam member of the Mother’s Committee of the One Million Signatures Campaign, and a member of Mothers for Peace, was released on the afternoon of Wednesday April 16, after spending nine days in detention. Moghaddam was arrested last week after security police forcibly entered her home. [...]
Humanity United and Ashoka’s Changemakers are launching a global online competition to identify innovative approaches to exposing, confronting and ending modern-day slavery. Today over 27 million children and adults are in slavery or bonded labor around the world—more than any other period in human history. As one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the [...]
Grinding poverty and the escalating war is driving an increasing number of Afghan families to sell their daughters into forced marriages. Girls as young as six are being married into a life of slavery and rape, often by multiple members of their new relatives. Banned from seeing their own parents or siblings, they are also [...]
Recent postings- Towards a Future without Fundamentalisms: New Report Analyzes Religious Fundamentalist Strategies and Feminist Responses
- Statement on the Murder of Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, women’s human rights defender of Ciudad Juarez
- Sudan police arrest women protesting at flogging video
- UN Chief Leaves Women out of Year-End Summing Up
- Sex education is expelled from Egyptian schools
- Kurdish Parliament Turns Blind Eye to Prostitution
- Sexual harassment cases in Israel’s civil service rose 40% in 2010
- Women in south Sudan have been targeted in a string of abusive attacks by police cracking down on Western clothes
- Women and girls living in Haiti’s makeshift camps face an increasing risk of rape and sexual violence says Amnesty International new report
- Stand up against hatred and threats against LGBT in Malaysia
- new on womensgrid
- Tower Hamlets Residents Solidarity Campaign – Solidarity with women involved in prostitution in east London
- East London Fawcett: Free Gallery Tour ~ 12 May & Pay Gap Talk ~ 23rd May 2012
- The Light Bulb Moment and future of feminism Book launch and panel – Bristol ~ 15th May 2012
- Hollaback! Portsmouth launch event – Tuesday 22nd May 2012
- Run for Congo Women – Deadline extended to 25th May 2012!
- Fast fall in number of male-only FTSE 100 boards
- Why has the UK got so few women scientists?
- The Haven Wolverhampton E Bulletin May 2012
- 2 vacancies – Shakti Women’s Aid (Edinburgh) ~ 28th May 2012
- Volunteering for Dorset Rape Crisis Centre
- new on women in london
- Information added in March 2012
- Information added in February 2012
- Information added in January 2012
- Pro-Choice Public Meeting – Abortion Rights ~16th May 2012
- Fawcett on Queen’s speech: flexible parental leave / red tape challenge
- Policy and Campaigns Internship – Power and Agency campaign – Fawcett ~ 22nd May 2012
- Administration and Finance Worker – Women in Prison ~ 18th May 2012
- A Women’s Agenda for the Local Elections May 2012 – Survey Results
- Friends of the Women’s Library update on the future of the Library
- Women in Black, vigils and Facebook page
Reassessing Sex Work – the “Anti-Prostitution Pledge” embedded in PEPFAR
21 April 2008 in Funding, Global, Government, HIV/AIDS, North America, Opinion Comment, Prostitution
HIV prevention programs must be based on more expansive views of sexuality – particularly when it comes to sex work. Many points have already been raised about the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) that focused on how the funding initiative misses out on key issues: the vulnerability of girls and how marriage [...]