Archive for the 'War Conflict' Category
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) Letter to the UN asking for investigative reports, specific actions taken and punishment metered, reparations provided to Haitian victims of rape and sexual abuse by UN soldiers in Haiti
In 2005, the Ezili Danto Witness Project reported on a Jordanian soldier’s brutal rape and sodomizing a Haitian mother of five in [...]
* Rape victims lost vital services after expulsions says UN
* Sudan denies rape widespread in Darfur
Rape victims in Sudan’s Darfur region have lost vital medical and psychological support since Khartoum expelled aid agencies working against sexual violence this year, the United Nations and aid workers said.
A Sudanese minister dismissed the reports as “propaganda” saying there [...]
Somalia’s hardline al Shabaab insurgents closed three grassroots women’s organisations in the rebel-held town of Balad Hawa on Monday to stop women from going to work, a rebel leader said.
The group wants to impose its own version of Islamic law on areas it controls, and Washington says it is al Qaeda’s proxy in the Horn [...]
While medical and psychological care are being provided to survivors of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 7,000 women and girls have been raped this year alone, UN and aid workers on the ground say the funding response has been too narrow, leaving key issues inadequately addressed.
“Increased international attention to sexual violence [...]
Some governments’ broad counter-terrorism laws are punishing women and gays and suppressing groups pushing gender equality, a U.N. envoy of human rights and counter-terrorism said on Monday.
Many of these people are caught between being victims of extremist groups and victims of counter-terrorism measures, said Martin Scheinin, a U.N. special rapporteur on promotion and protection of [...]
* Humanitarian workers call for accountability for crimes
* 110,000 return to homes in volatile Rwanda border zone
* Concerns about cross-border expulsions in Angola, Congo
Some 5,400 women have reported being raped this year in one province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said last week.
Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the [...]
US defence firms are to be barred from lucrative government contracts if they refuse to allow employees access to the courts, after a woman working for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq was prevented from taking legal action over an alleged gang rape by fellow workers.
Al Franken, the Senate’s newest member, has won an amendment to [...]
At an 8 October gathering of Guinean women beaten or raped during the recent military attack on demonstrators, all wept as one young woman presented torn clothes soldiers had ripped off of her.
“We all collapsed in tears. It is unspeakably painful what happened here in Guinea,” Aïssata Daffe of the Union des Forces Républicaines political [...]
With US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the chair, the UN Security Council on 30th September 2009 unanimously adopted a resolution to halt the use of sexual violence as a tactic of war.
Resolution 1888, sponsored by 61 countries, reiterated the 15-member body’s “demand for the complete cessation by all parties to armed conflict of [...]
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution last week urging all countries to increase the ranks of women with a seat at the table when negotiations take place to resolve conflicts and start building peace.
Nine years after the adoption of a landmark U.N. resolution calling for women be included in decision-making positions at every [...]
Darfuri refugee women and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad, despite the presence of UN security forces, a new Amnesty International report reveals.
In ‘No place for us here: Violence against refugee women in eastern Chad’, Amnesty International documents [...]
Successive governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina have failed to provide justice for thousands of women and girls who were raped during the 1992-1995 war, a new Amnesty International report reveals.
Launching at a press conference in Sarajevo, Amnesty’s 82-page report, Whose Justice? The women of Bosnia and Herzegovina are still waiting, details how thousands of rape [...]
Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 2009
Liberating women figured high in the official rhetoric justifying regime change in Iraq, but reality on the ground is a different story. In this carefully researched book, Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, both professors at British universities, investigate why the situation of Iraqi [...]
In conjunction with the presentation of the UN Fact Finding Mission’s report to the Human Rights Council on 29 September, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) release “Through Women’s Eyes: A PCHR Report on the Gender-Specific Impact and Consequences of Operation Cast Lead”. Download http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/Reports/English/pdf_spec/through-women’s%20_eyes.pdf
The Israeli offensive claimed the lives of 118 women, and [...]
In 2003, the African nation of Liberia was in turmoil; its president Charles Taylor was involved in a vicious civil war with war lords who wanted to take his place. Caught in the middle were innocent civilians who bore the brunt of the violence.
One woman, Leymah Gbowee, had had enough and she and her [...]
Rioters attacked and stripped about 20 Ugandan women who were wearing trousers last week during deadly riots in Kampala. The humiliations were part of a major confrontation between a traditional kingdom and President Yoweri Museveni’s government.
Male rioters in a suburb here on September 11 attacked about 20 women wearing trousers.
The men, in Rubaga, a Kampala [...]
More than a year and a half after they fled their homes in the post-election violence, many women living in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kenya are taking to prostitution to eke out a living.
Camp residents and non-governmental organisations working with IDPs report an increase in cases involving desperate women selling their bodies [...]
Poor security, rampant fraud and not enough female election staff will keep many women away from the ballot box in next week’s presidential election in deeply conservative Afghanistan, diplomats and campaign workers fear.
While the female vote has emerged as a potentially powerful bloc in some areas, it is unlikely the majority of women will exercise [...]
US secretary of state visits Goma to draw attention to ‘one of mankind’s greatest atrocities’
Hillary Clinton called for the arrest and punishment of those responsible for the widespread sexual violence that has blighted eastern Congo for more than a decade.
The US secretary of state, who is in Goma to draw world attention to what [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week lauded the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for classifying rape as a form of genocide.
In his latest report on the scourge to the UN Security Council, Ban said the tribunal in Rwanda recognised sexual violence was a step in the process of group destruction “of the spirit, of the [...]
Recent postings- 16 Days of Activism for the Elimination of Violence Against women – 25 November to 10 December
- Commit • Act • Demand: We CAN End Violence Against Women!
- 10th Anniversary Statement on the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
- UN expert calls for strengthened cooperation to intensify efforts to eliminate violence against women
- Denial of justice to rape survivors doomed to continue
- Knesset calls to get tough on domestic violence on eve of White Ribbon Day
- Women in Malawi: Holding up half the sky
- Obama honors WOZA (Women of Zimbabwe Arise) for defying a ‘dictator’
- IPS Gender Wire up to 10 November 2009
- Anti-child pornography law signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the Philippines
- new on womensgrid
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women links
- Rape: The Victim Experience Review
- Rape victims not believed if they come from wrong area, warns report
- Special End Violence Against Women Bulletin, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 25th November 2009
- Report from Women’s National Commission focus groups on strategy to end violence against women and girls
- Together we can end violence against women and girls – Government strategy outlined
- Safety in Numbers: a study commissioned by the Hestia Fund and funded by The Henry Smith Charity and The Sigrid Rausing Trust – published on 24th November 2009
- Thousands of children subject to death threats from fathers
- Haringey Domestic and Gender Based Violence Stakeholders Conference on Rape & Sexual Assault on Girls & Young Women
- Shattered (contemporary stories of surviving sexual violence) working with Rape Crisis (England &Wales) – Exhibition Hornsey until 12th December 2009
- new on women in london
- Grunwick and Gate Gourmet Study Day at the Women’s Library
- Home Truths: The Social Impact of Domestic Violence – JWA – 25th November 2009
- Researcher – WRC – 7th December 2009
- 4 vacancies – Kiran – 2nd December 2009
- National Peripatetic Domestic Violence Workers – Refuge – 24 Nov 2009
- The Greatest Silence – special screening to mark 16 Days of Action – WAN – 3rd Dec 2009
- Consultation for organisations working in the field of violence against women and children
- New free legal advice clinic at Account3 in Tower Hamlets – first session 24 Nov 2009
- Children’s Rights Photography Competition – Alternative Arts – 14th December 2009
- Fawcett comments on new pay gap figures
