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CAW UPDATE
EVENTS
CONFERENCES/MEETINGS
RESOURCES
CALL FOR ACTION
PUBLISHING
AND CALL FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
CAW
UPDATE
Upcoming
Workshop on Recruiting Top Notch Women to Your Board of Directors
InterAction
Forum Registration Begins/ CAW Announces Two Forum Events
CAW
Director Presents at UN CSW Meetings in New York
Upcoming Mary Anderson Presentation on the Do No Harm Framework and
Peace
Practices Project
InterAction Brown Bag on USAID Budget FY 2003
InterAction Delegation Heads to Monterrey Conference
CD-ROM – Women Go Global Presentation
EVENTS
Walking
on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance (Mar 18)
A Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay -- Documentary Screening (Mar 19)
Gender and Development in Africa Brown Bag with Dr. Wilene Johnson (Mar
20)
If Women Ruled the World -- Documentary Screening
(Mar 20)
Patient
Abuse: South Africa’s Struggle for AIDS Treatment – Documentary
Screening
(Mar 20)
Women’s Federation for World Peace 10th Anniversary
Reception (Mar 23)
Life
Lines: The Literature of Women’s Human Rights (Mar 25)
Racial
Taboos and the Dynamics of Leadership (Apr
2)
Women’s
Policy, Inc. 2002 Congressional Dinner (Apr 17)
International Human Rights Law Group Celebrates the Women of Afghanistan
(Apr 24)
Women’s Action for New Directions’ Annual Reception Honoring Eve
Ensler (Apr 30)
CONFERENCES/MEETINGS
March
- April
Interfaith
Conference of Washington (Mar 19)
Human Security for the Global South: Challenges of Peace and Democracy
in the 21st
Century (Mar 20 –
21)
Youth Summit on Sustainable Development (Mar 29 – 31)
International
Conference on HIV/Aids Infection in Women and Children (Apr 11
–12)
International Conference on Women and Education (Apr 11 – 13)
12th Annual Conference on Peacemaking, Diversity, and Social
Change (Apr 21)
May
– June
New
Rules Conference – Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism (May 23 – 24)
3rd International
Congress on “Women, Work and Health” (Jun 2 – 5)
Power, Difference and
Identity: The Local & The Global (Jun 3 – 7)
Women in Civil Society:
Philosophy, Politics, History (Jun
6 – 9)
Trends in Transnational
Feminisms (Jun 13)
International Conference on
Gender, Sexuality, and Law II (Jun 28 – 30)
July
– December
9th
International Women and Health Meeting (Aug 12 –16)
Gender, Power and (In) Justice (Oct
29 – 30)
RESOURCES
Books,
Reports, & Other Written Materials
Eye
to Eye: Women Practising Development Across Cultures
Agreed
Conclusions on the Critical Areas of Concern of the Beijing Platform
for Action
FAO
Information Report on Afghanistan
UNIFEM Booklet for Work on Gender and HIV/AIDS
Women at the Intersection of Racism and Other Oppressions
The Health and Work of Older Women
Respect our Rights: Partnership for Equality
Online
Materials
Gender
and Peacekeeping: Opportunities and Challenges to Improve Practice
UN Conference on FfD – Observations and Demands from a Gender
Perspective
Women, Men and Environmental Change: The Gender Dimensions of
Environmental
Policies and Programs
Human
Rights, Reproductive, and Sexual Health
Toward
a Compassionate Society
Reducing
Girls' Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: The Thai approach
Websites
Gender
and Political Participation
UNDP Gender Library Online
The Breast Cancer Site
Auntie Stella – Reproductive Health Training
White Ribbon Alliance for Save Motherhood
New
Disability Website
Saving
Women’s Lives
Center for Women & Information Technology
Listserves/Discussion
Forums
SustDev
eNewsletter
Know
Your World: OneWorld U.S. Daily Headlines
BRIDGE
In Brief Listserve
Barcelona Update on 13th Annual AIDS Conference
BOL – Gender and Development in South Asia
Women’s Justice Center Forum
PUBLISHING
AND CALL FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
International
Perspectives: Global Voices for Gender Equity (Call for Papers)
Women’s
Tent at World Summit on Sustainable Development
CALL
FOR ACTION
Spring
Walk for Afghanistan (Mar 1- May 30)
The Clothesline Project
CAW
UPDATE
As
part of the Campaign for Gender Equity on Boards of Directors,
the CAW would like to invite you to participate in an upcoming workshop,
“Practical Strategies for Identifying and Recruiting Top-Notch Women
for Your Board of Directors,” on Thursday, April 25, 2002, 12:00 –
5:00 pm, at the InterAction office.
This workshop, principally designed for InterAction members
participating in the Campaign, will provide practical strategies for
recruiting women (including women of color and with disabilities) onto
boards. This workshop will
be facilitated by Jennifer Rutledge, Partner/Vice President of Delphi
Consulting Group, Inc. Ms. Rutledge has a nearly 30-year career of
providing practical experience to boards and staffs of various types of
organizations. She is the author of Building Board Diversity, a
publication of BoardSource, formerly the National Center for Nonprofit
Boards.
RSVP
to Angela Wiens (awiens@interaction.org/
Tel: 202/667.8227 ext. 114) by April 1, 2002. Early registration is
suggested since space is limited. The
cost for the workshop, including lunch, is $10. Please send your payment
to the attention of CAW, InterAction, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW,
Washington, DC 20036.
We
hope that you and your colleagues will take advantage of this valuable
opportunity. If you have any further questions regarding the Campaign,
please contact Julie Montgomery, CAW Program Associate, at jmontgom@interaction.org.
We encourage you to pass this announcement to your board members.
Suzanne Kindervatter, CAW
Director, presented “From the Margin to the Center: Promoting Gender
Equality in Mainstream Organizations” at the 46th UN
Commission on the Status of Women meetings in New York.
She presented as a part of a panel discussing effective
strategies for gender mainstreaming.
Other panelists included Cecilia Valdivieso, World Bank Sector
Manager, Gender and Development; Carolyn Hannan, Director, UN Division
for the Advancement of Women; Moderator Angela King, UN Assistant
Secretary-General and Special Advisor on Gender Issues and the
Advancement of Women. The
seminar examined the elements needed to create effective strategies for
mainstreaming gender-responsive actions into development assistance.
Look for an article in an upcoming Monday Developments for more
information on her presentation and the CSW meetings!
The
InterAction Disaster Response Committee, through funding from the Andrew
W. Mellon foundation, is pleased to announce that Mary Anderson will
present on “The Do No Harm Framework in Fast Changing Environments”
and give comments on the Peace Practices Project.
Mary
B. Anderson is President of the Collaborative for Development Action,
Inc., a small consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has
specialized in: rural development strategies that build on local
capacities; gender analysis in development programming; the
relationships between emergency relief assistance and long-term
development; and educational policies as these affect access to primary
education in developing countries.
For
more information on Mary’s work, visit www.cdainc.com.
The
meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 17, from 10 am – 12:00 pm at
the InterAction office. Please
note that this meeting is open to InterAction members only. RSVP to
Shawn Bardwell by April 10 at drmeetings@interaction.org.
InterAction’s
Office of Public Policy invites you to attend a brown bag lunch on the
USAID Budget for FY 2003. The event will be held on Monday, March 18, 12:30 – 1:30
pm, at the Interaction office. Jim
Painter, Director, Office of Budget Bureau of Policy and Program
Coordination, USAID, will present at the brown bag.
RSVP to Smita Baruah at sbaruah@interaction.org.
InterAction
Delegation Heads to Monterrey Conference
InterAction
President Mary E. McClymont and a group of select staff will be going to
the UN Financing for Development Conference in Monterrey, Mexico, March
18-22. Ms. McClymont will join world and business leaders March 20 at a
roundtable discussion, where she will focus her comments on the
importance of increasing overseas development assistance and improving
its effectiveness. InterAction recently launched a 5-year campaign to
increase development and humanitarian assistance, improve aid
effectiveness, and build international partnerships. InterAction will
co-sponsor an event on MARCH 20 from 1:15 - 2:45 pm on
“Overseas Development Assistance: The Key to Global Security” at the
Monterrey international conference center in which senior ministers from
the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway and Sierra Leone will
debate issues related to foreign assistance and its effectiveness.
InterAction is organizing the event with BOND, a UK-based coalition of
nongovernmental organizations; ActionAid/UK; and the Norwegian Forum.
InterAction staff attending the conference include: Emira Woods, John
Zarafonetis, Vince McElhinny, Elena McCollim, and Sid Balman.
CD-ROM
– Women Go Global Presentation
Watch
for an announcement soon for a CAW brown bag lunch where this exciting
new multimedia resource will be previewed.
This multi-media CD-ROM describes milestones in the efforts of
the United Nations and the international women’s movement to bring
about greater gender equality. The
CD-ROM offers extensive coverage of the four UN women’s conferences,
the parallel NGO forums, and the 23rd special session on the
General Assembly 2000. It
also discusses the important role of the UN CSW and provides up-to-date
information on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. Related UN, media, and NGO documents are also included.
Also included is a selective bibliography and links to key
websites, a list of country-based archives on women’s history and the
profiles of more than 200 key persons participating in the global
effort. To order your copy
($19.95) visit www.un.org/publications,
email publications@un.org,
call 800/253-9646.
EVENTS
Walking
on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance
March
18, Washington, DC. Jubilee
USA Network is pleased to invite you to a brown bag luncheon
“Globalization and its Impacts on Haitian Women” with readings from
the new book, Walking On Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival
and Resistance. Speakers:
Simone Alexandre, Haitian health care worker with the Association
for the Promotion of Integrated Health and Walking on Fire interviewee;
and Beverly Bell, Founder and Director of the Center for Economic
Justice and author. This
event will take place on March 18th, 2001, from 12:30-1:30 pm, at the
Lutheran Church of Reformation (222 East Capitol St. NE). Drinks will be
provided, please bring your own lunch. For more information or
directions, please contact Mara Vanderslice at 202-783-0129.
A
Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay – Documentary Screening
March
19, Washington, DC. You are
invited to attend a screening for A Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay, a
video documentary and powerful organizing tool.”
This one-hour video documentary that follows 6 participants
through New York City's workfare program, the Work Experience Program (WEP)
exposing the economic and racial injustices of workfare and documenting
the organizing efforts of welfare recipients to demand jobs creation,
job training, access to education, and quality child care. This event
will be held on Tuesday, March 19, at the Public Welfare Foundation,
1200 U Street, NW. Doors
open at 6 pm, screening starts at 6:30 pm. RSVP: 212-952-0121 ext. 235.
Gender
and Development in Africa Brown Bag with Dr. Willene Johnson
March
20, Washington, DC. Please
join the International Center for Research on Women for a brown bag
lunch with Dr. Willene Johnson on Wednesday, March 20, at 12:00 – 1:00
pm at ICRW, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 302. Dr. Johnson was
formerly the United States Executive Director to the Africa Development
Bank, where she oversaw the development of policies, programs, and
projects aimed at improving the economic well being of African
countries, and supervised the financial operations and the
administrative budget. She will speak about her experiences with
development in Africa and attempts to integrate gender into various Bank
operations and programs in the region, including the gender dimensions
of poverty reduction strategies. RSVP to Miriam Escobar at
202/797-0007. Bring your lunches; drinks will be provided.
If
Women Ruled the World – Documentary Screening
March
20, Washington, DC. The
Women & Politics Institute, partnering with BellSouth Corporation,
is hosting a pre-screening of the exciting, new PBS documentary, If
Women Ruled the World, by Karz Productions.
This event will take place on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m. in the Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and House Minority Whip Nancy Pelosi
will make opening remarks. The
event will feature short clips from the Documentary with commentary by
women featured in the film including Betty Friedan, Lt. General Claudia
Kennedy (Ret.) and Eleanor Clift. RSVP
to Women & Politics Institute Assistant Director, Sarah Brewer, at
sbrewer@american.edu or at 202-885-3103.
Patient
Abuse: South Africa’s Struggle for AIDS Treatment – Documentary
Screening
March
20, Washington, DC. Please join The Center for Global Development for
the showing of the film Patient Abuse: South Africa’s Struggle for
AIDS Treatment -- a documentary on South Africa’s Treatment
Action Campaign. Followed by a discussion on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
Activism with Irungu Houghton, US Program Coordinator, ActionAid USA,
formerly with ActionAid Kenya; Adam Taylor, Executive Director, Global
Justice
Board
Member of Jubilee U.S.A. Network and Global AIDS Alliance.
The film screening will be held on Wednesday, March 20, 7:00
p.m., at VISIONS Cinema, Bistro, Lounge (1927 Florida Ave NW, one block
east of Connecticut Ave). This event is part of the Center for Global Development’s
series of “Movies, Books, and Conversations: Development
Matters.” Visit www.cgdev.org
for more information.
Women’s
Federation for World Peace 10th Anniversary Reception
March
23, Washington, DC.
The Women’s Federation for World Peace is celebrating its 10th
Anniversary on Saturday, March 23, 2002, 2:00 – 6:00 pm at the
Washington Hilton and Tower Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave, NW. For more information, visit http://www.wfwp.org/.
Life
Lines: The Literature of Women’s Human Rights
March
25, Washington, DC. The
Women’s Learning Parternship for Rights, Development, and Peace and
the Center for Global Peace at American University invite you to “Life
Lines: The Literature of Women’s Human Rights,” a poetry and prose
reading by Elizabeth Alexander, Merle Collins, Fatema Mernissi, and Goli
Taraghi. The event will be
held on Monday, March 25, 3:00 – 5:00 pm, at the Kay Spiritual Center,
American University, 4400 Mass Ave, NW, Washington, DC.
Free and open to the public.
Reception and book signing will follow.
RSVP to 301/654-2774 or wlp@learningparntership.org.
Racial
Taboos and the Dynamics of Leadership
April
2, Boston, MA. The
Center for Gender in Organizations is pleased to announce “Racial
Taboos and the Dynamics of Leadership.” This event will be held on
Tuesday, April 2, from 3:00 – 5:00 pm at the Simmons Graduate
School of Management (409 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston).
David
Thomas, PhD, H.
Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business
School, will present how
long-standing sexual taboos between whites and African Americans affect
mentoring relationships. Thomas argues that these often unconscious
taboos, rooted in slavery and Jim Crow, create enough discomfort that
both mentor and protégé often retreat to less personal and ultimately
less satisfying relationships. In this seminar, he will help us explore
these dynamics as they relate to leadership, moving beyond dyadic
relationships between black and whites to think more generally about how
sexual, racial, and gendered taboos (or yearnings) might circumscribe
leadership practice. To
reserve a space at the seminar, please email cgo@simmons.edu
or phone 617.521.3824
Women’s
Policy, Inc. 2002 Congressional Dinner
April
17, Washington, DC. Women’s Policy, Inc.
invites you to honor and celebrate the Congressional Caucus for
Women’s Issues and its many accomplishments on the occasion of its
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary at the 2002 Congressional Dinner on Wednesday,
April 17. The EMCEE will be
Cokie Roberts, ABC News. The event will be held at the National Building
Museum, entrance on G St, between 4th and 5th St.
A reception will begin at 6:30 pm, with a formal dinner to follow
(7:30pm). RSVP to
Natalie Shear Associates at 202/833-4456.
International
Human Rights Law Group Celebrates the Women of Afghanistan
April
24, Washington, DC. Please
mark your calendars to join the International Human Rights Law Group in
Celebrating the Women of Afghanistan.
This event will honor Her Excellency, Deputy Prime Minister Dr.
Sima Samar, and other pioneering women from across Afghanistan.
There will also be a special tribute to Her Excellency Judge
Patricia Wald, formerly at the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia Annual Human Rights Event.
This event will be held at the Capital Hilton, Washington, DC.
For information on the specific time of the dinner and purchase of
tickets, please contact Mieke Zylstra at 202.822.4569 x23 or events@hrlawgroup.org
Women’s
Action for New Directions’ Annual Reception Honoring Eve Ensler
April
30, Washington, DC. Please join Women’s Action for New Directions
(WAND) in honoring playwright and activist Eve Ensler with the 2002 WiLL/WAND
Torchbearer Award at their annual reception in Washington, DC. Eve
Ensler’s Obie
Award-winning play The Vagina Monologues initiated V-Day,
a global movement to end violence against women. Ms. Ensler is the
recipient of many prestigious awards of the stage, including the
Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Playwriting and the Elliot Norton Award
for Outstanding Solo Performance. She travels around the world
advocating for the right of women and girls to lead lives free of
violence and oppression. The
reception will be held on Tuesday, April 20, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.
Place to be determined. For more information, contact WAND at
781/643-6740.
CONFERENCES/MEETINGS
MARCH
– APRIL
Interfaith
Conference of Washington
March
19, Washington, DC. The
InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington (IFC) will bring
together a full range of diverse religious leadership along with
academic, political and policy
organizations and others for an exploration of the issues surrounding
faith-based initiatives at a conference entitled, “The Faiths and
Faith Based Initiatives: What is Really Happening?” The conference
featuring plenary speakers, panel discussions, and workshops,
will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, at the
National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle, NW, Washington, DC (at
Massachusetts Avenue and 14th Street, NW).
For more information, contact IFC at Tel: (202) 234-6300, Fax:
(202) 234-6303.
Human
Security for the Global South: Challenges of Peace and Democracy in the
21st Century
March
20 – 21, Washington, DC. Eradicating
poverty, hunger, and despair and obtaining a life of dignity and
security is a universal aspiration.
Recent events challenge the global community to respond with
innovative and creative ways to realize the goals of human security in
all its aspects. The Center
for the Global South at American University invites you to participate
in a conference addressing these urgent issues, entitled “Human
Security for the Global South: Challenges of Peace and Democracy in the
21st Century.” The
conference will be held on March 20 – 21 at American University –
Washington College of Law, 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW – Room 603.
For more information, visit http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/acainst/cgs/.
Youth
Summit on Sustainable Development
March
29 – 31, New York, NY. In
conjunction with the 3rd preparatory committee meeting of the United
Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in New York City March
25th - April 5th, students, youth, and young professionals
are invited to attend the Youth Summit on Sustainable Development.
The Summit is sponsored by the USA Youth Planning Group for
Sustainable Development is a network of thousands of students throughout
the country organizing around the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (WSSD) in their schools, on their campuses and in their
communities. For more information visit: http://www.SustainUS.org/.
International
Conference on HIV/Aids Infection in Women and Children
April
11-12, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Speakers
include: Mary G. Boland, DrPH, RN, François-Xavier Bagnoud, lecturer in
Nursing at the Foundation François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, School of
Nursing, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey; Elaine
Gross, RN, MS, CNS-C, nursing, National Pediatric & Family HIV
Resource Center, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey;
Dr. Ricardo Hugo Oliveira, pediatric, in charge of the Pediatric Aids
Clinic, IPPMG/UFRJ. Handbooks
for treating children/pregnant women will also be distributed.
All presentations will be translated simultaneously into English.
Contact: Informed Eventos,
Rua Goethe, 55 Térreo – Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro - RJ CEP:
22281-020, Telefax: (55 21) 2266-0105 & 2266-7583, email: inform@informed-eventos.com.br.
Web: http://www.informed-eventos.com.br/engl/index4.html.
International
Conference on Women and Education
April
11 – 13, Fès, Morocco. The
Centre for Studies and Research on Women, affiliated to the Faculty of
Letters Dhar El Mehraz, Fès, invites you to its third international
conference on Women and Education, April 11 – 13, at the Faculty of
Letters Dhar El Mehraz, Fès - Morocco.
Education constitutes an important factor in the promotion of
women in all domains. One of the major objectives of this conference is
to promote reflection on the impact of education on women’s condition,
especially in developing countries. For more info visit: http://www.fesnet.net.ma/CERF/Centre.
12th
Annual Conference on Peacemaking, Diversity, and Social Change
April
21, Washington, DC. The
Georgetown University Peace and Justice Studies invites you to
participate in the Capital Area Association for Peace Studies (CAAPS)
Twelfth Annual Student Conference on Peacemaking, Diversity and Social
Change. The conference is
scheduled to take place on Sunday, April 21, 2002, from 9:30am to
5:00pm, at Georgetown University's Bunn Intercultural Center.
As part of the daylong event, they plan to host a non-profit and
NGO fair for college students in the DC metro area interested in social
justice and peace studies. They
encourage your organization to send a representative to the conference.
The conference is an all-day event, designed to bring together
people, ideas, and resources around the themes of peacemaking, diversity
and social change. For more information, contact Shawn Chang at
202/285-6479 or email changh2@georgetown.edu.
MAY
- JUNE
New
Rules Conference – Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism
May
23 – 24, Washington, DC. This
conference will take stock of recent debates on development policy,
including the Financing for Development conference, and of recent
research in international economics. It will seek to build alliances
within the NGO community around an agenda of workable reforms,
particularly those relating to the global financial architecture. The
conference will be held at the Carnegie Conference Center, 1779 Mass
Ave, NW. Advanced registration requested (free of charge): contact djacobs@oxfamamerica.org.
Organized by the coalition New Rules for Global Finance and
supported by the MOTT Foundation.
3rd
International Congress on “Women, Work and Health”
June
2 – 5, Stockholm, Sweden. This
international and interdisciplinary congress will form a meeting place
for researchers and practitioners, as well as trade union
representatives, representatives for governments and the social partners
and feminist activists. The purpose of this meeting is to stimulate open
and critical discussions, to share practical experience and scholarly
work on women’s working and living conditions and their health.
Information on the congress can be found at www.niwl.se/wwh, where you
will also find articles and interviews related to the congress themes.
You may also email wwh@niwl.se.
Power,
Difference and Identity: The Local & The Global
June
3 – 7, Towson, MD.
Towson University announces the 2002 Summer Institute, “Power,
Difference and Identity: The Local and the Global” from June
3-7, 2002. Co-sponsored
by:
Howard
University's Women's Studies Program and African-American Women's Center
and
Curriculum Transformation Project, University of Maryland, College Park.
Institute themes include gender, religion and social change in
the Middle East; teaching the intersections of race, class, gender, and
sexuality, realities of class: unveiling class privilege and inequality;
women and electronic media; strategies for internationalizing the
studies of women and gender. For more
information, visit http://pages.towson.edu/ncctrw/summer/.
Women
in Civil Society: Philosophy, Politics, History
June
6 – 9, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.
The Educational-Scholarly
Gender Center is pleased to invite you to attend the International
Conference “Women in Civil Society: Philosophy, Politics, History”.
The Conference will be held from June 6 – 9 at the Faculty of
Philosophy, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
The conference will focus on the following issues: formation of the
civil society in Russia and women’s role in this process; the gender
component in the processes of civil society formation; present-day
concepts of the civil society; human rights as institute of the civil
society; role of culture in civil society formation; mass communications
in civil society; women’s participation in mass media; women in
politics, organs of power, public and non-governmental organizations:
issues and perspectives; women and conflicts. The Conference will be in
Russian, German and English. The conference fee is $100. Contact: Professor Grigory A. Tishkin, Tel: 7-812-328-94-21;
7-812-328-94-22; 7-812-233-75-35, Fax: 7-812-328-44-08, email: at
genderspbun@lycos.com or genderspbun@pochtamt.ru.
Trends
in Transnational Feminisms
June
13, California State University, Northridge,
CA.
The Institute of Gender, Globalization and Democracy at
the California State, University, Northridge is hosting a one-day
conference entitled "Trends in Transnational Feminisms". The
conference will take place on June 13, 2002 prior to the annual National
Women's Studies Association in Las Vegas at the Alexis Park Hotel.
Topics include women in patriarchal racist transnational capitalism and
transnational forms of resistance; the implication of gender, sex, race,
and nation in transnational capitalism and feminism; the transnational
reception of Third World feminist issues and writings; theorizing global
sisterhood and transnational feminist political solidarity;
universality, particularity and women's rights as human rights; the
impact of transnational feminist practices on local feminisms; feminist
cyberpolitics; the politics of UN-women's global conferences; feminist
transnational feminisms and the war against Afghanistan; Empire, First
and Third World fundamentalisms, and transnational feminist politics;
Coalition politics (with other social movements such as women's
indigenous movements, transnational lesbian movements, transnational
eco-feminists etc.) and transnational feminisms. For further
information, please contact Breny Mendoza at (818) 677-5641 or email breny.mendoza@csun.edu.
International
Conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Law II
June
28 – 30, Keele University, UK. This
conference will provide a forum for scholars to discuss, more broadly,
ways to gather and disseminate research and explore the topic of gender,
sexuality and law. The conference is open to people working within
feminist theory, queer theory, and critical race theory, or who are
otherwise exploring, challenging and, interrogating the relationship
between law and the construction of the sexed and gendered subject. For
more information, please contact us at the above or visit our web site
at: http://www.Keele.ac.uk/depts/la/GSL2002.htm.
JULY
- DECEMBER
9th
International Women and Health Meeting
August
12 – 16, Toronto, Canada. Since
1975, the International Women and Health Meetings (IWHM) have provided
forums for activities to develop and shape the international women’s
health agenda from the ground up. These
meetings are based on the recognition of equality as a condition of
health and the recognition of the principle of distribute justice for
women of the North and the South. For
more information visit www.iwhm-rifs.org.
Gender,
Power and (In) Justice
October
29 – 30, Basilia, Brazil. The
International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics invites you to
attend “Gender, Power and (In) Justice.” This conference will be
held in conjunction with the Sixth World Congress of the International
Association of Bioethics from October 30 - November 4 in Brasilia,
Brazil. For more information, visit http://www.msu.edu/~hlnelson/fab/index.html.
RESOURCES
BOOKS,
REPORTS, & OTHER WRITTEN MATERIALS
Eye
to Eye: Women Practising Development Across Cultures
In
celebration of this year's International Women's Day, UNESCO launched
the book "Eye to Eye: Women Practising Development Across
Cultures". This book is about women working on a grassroots level
to produce development solutions to the problems we face today. The
essays show women confronting urgent issues of gender justice in ways
that bring theoretical perspectives to bear on practice, and also show
how good theory is illuminated by actual engagements. The authors write
about development problems in an impressive array of countries: China,
India, Bangladesh, Ghana, South Africa, Israel, Palestine,
Senegal,
Nigeria, France, Australia and Mauritius. For more information, please
visit: http://www.unesco.org/women/march8.htm.
Agreed
Conclusions on the Critical Areas of Concern of the Beijing Platform for
Action
This
publication is an in-depth review and a critical analysis of the
implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the 12 critical
areas of concern for priority action to achieve the advancement and
empowerment of women. Extensive coverage is presented in the critical
areas such as: women and poverty, women in power and decision-making,
education and training of women, violence against women, women and
health, institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women. Many
strategies and solutions have been incorporated into the resolutions and
agreed conclusions contained in this book to guide governments and other
actors towards further actions and initiatives for the accelerated and
full implementation of the Platform for Action. From 1996 through 1999,
the Commission on the Status of Women was mandated to monitor the
implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.
To order a copy, visit http://www.un.org/Pubs/update/womupd.htm.
FAO
Information Report on Afghanistan
FAO’s
latest Information Note on Women in Agriculture, Environment and Rural
Development focuses on Afghanistan.
To receive a copy, please contact Allison
Loconto, FAO, SDWW, SEAGA Programme, Room: B-563, Viale delle Terme di
Caracalla, 00100 Rome (RM), Italy, Tel: (39) 06-5705-5046, Fax: (39)
06-5705-2004, Email: allison.loconto@fao.org,
website: http://www.fao.org/sd.
UNIFEM
Booklet for Work on Gender and HIV/AIDS
UNIFEM's
new publication "Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions
of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic," contributes to understanding how the
world's foremost blueprint for women's human rights can be put to work
to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a gender perspective. The book is
intended to be a resource for National AIDS Councils, HIV/AIDS
activists, women's human rights activists, UN partners, and others who
are doing work in this area and was enthusiastically received by the
CEDAW Committee. For more
information, contact Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, CEDAW Advisor, at ilana.landsberg-lewis@undp.org
Women
at the Intersection of Racism and Other Oppressions
The
Center for Women’s Global Leadership announces an upcoming resource
packet entitled “Women at the Intersection.”
The packet includes a book with a record of the Global Center’s
hearing on “Women at the Intersection of Racism and Other Oppressions:
A Human Rights Hearing” presented at the World Conference Against
Racism last September in Durban, South Africa.
It also includes accompanying commentaries on the conference and
related issues. A video and
study guide (also included in the packet) explores the meaning of
intersectionality, the impact of multiple forms of oppression on women,
and women’s strategies for overcoming those oppressions.
The companion study guide will help groups identify
intersectionality in their own communities.
The
Health and Work of Older Women
By
Professor Lesley Doyal, University of Bristol. This new report,
published by the Trade Unions Congress and Pennell Initiative for
Women's Health, highlights how older women's health and safety is often
ignored at work. “The
Health and Work of Older Women: A neglected Issue” argues that older
women work longer hours than younger women, have lower status jobs and
have a higher chance of developing bad backs and broken bones. To order
a summary of the report and its full recommendations or the full text,
email Jacqui McAleer, Pennell Co-ordinator, pennell@ukgateway.net
Cost £8.50.
Respect
our Rights: Partnership for Equality
UNHCR
and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children compiled the
result of the ”Dialogue with Refugee Women” meetings held in Geneva,
Switzerland, June 20 –22, 2001. The
report discusses issues of safety and security, livelihoods, building
partnerships, and UNHCR commitments related to refugee women. To order a
copy, contact the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children,
122 East 42nd Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10168-1289, Tel:
212-551-3088, Email: info@womenscommission.org.
ONLINE
MATERIALS
Gender
and Peacekeeping: Opportunities and Challenges to Improve Practice
The
briefing provides practical recommendations for a gender-sensitive
approach to multidimensional PVOs within the context of implementing
United Nations Resolution 1325. It is intended as a resource for
policy-makers and implementing agents, and is being disseminated to both
military and civilian agencies within the United Nations, European Union
and civil organizations. International Alert believes that a gender
perspective can make a positive difference to peace support operations
and that gender awareness training is vital to inform the composition
and deployment of civilian and military personnel. The report is
available from the International Alert Website at: www.womenbuildingpeace.org
or by contacting Bethan Cobley at International Alert on email: bcobley@international-alert.org
UN
Conference on FfD – Observations and Demands from a Gender Perspective
This
WIDE position paper, entitled “United Nations Conference on Financing
for Development - Observations and Demands from a Gender
Perspective" was written by Brita Neuhold. Brita Neuhold's Paper
gives an excellent analysis of the outcome document for Monterrey,
points out some interesting alternative positions and includes useful
recommendations from the gender perspective. The paper is available
on-line at: http://www.eurosur.org/wide/UN/BN_FfD.feb02.htm.
For more information about WIDE, please visit their Website at: www.eurosur.org/wide.
Women,
Men and Environmental Change: The Gender Dimensions of Environmental
Policies and Programs
The
Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is pleased to announce the publication
of "Women, Men and Environmental Change: The Gender Dimensions of
Environmental Policies and Programs." This is the second in PRB's
series on emerging policy issues in Population, Health, and Environment:
Making the Link. It examines the gender dimensions of environmental
policies and programs, highlighting how gender differences play a part
in natural resource use, how resource depletion affects women and men
differently, and
what has been done worldwide to integrate gender concerns in
environmental
planning. If you would like
to request copies, please contact PRB
(PHE@prb.org) or
access the publication online at PRB's website (www.prb.org).
Human
Rights, Reproductive, and Sexual Health
Action
Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) has recently compiled the
Concluding Observations and General Comments or Gender Recommendations,
related to reproductive and sexual health, developed by the
international human rights treaty bodies.
The manual is designed to assist in the preparation of reports on
compliance with (and violations of) rights to reproductive and sexual
health by: governmental departments and agencies; and, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs). It is
also designed to assist in the development of advocacy manuals, training
programs, and research. This
compilation of materials is available online at www.acpd.ca/compilation/.
Toward
a Compassionate Society
Edited
with an introduction by Mahnaz Afkhami, President of Women’s Learning
Partnership (WLP). WLP
is pleased to announce the publication of a web anthology entitled Toward
a Compassionate Society, which addresses the importance of cultural
pluralism and women’s role in promoting peace in a rapidly globalizing
world. The issues are examined from a variety of gender-focused cultural
and inter-disciplinary perspectives including sociology, anthropology,
human rights, philosophy, and religion. The anthology is available free
of charge at www.learningpartnership.org/publications/catalogue.html#copanthology
or http://www.cultureofpeace.net.
Reducing
Girls' Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: The Thai approach
Written by Churnrurtai Kanchanachitra. Edited by Ellen Hays. HIV
infection rates among teenage girls are often much higher than in
teenage boys; the reason lies in girls greater biological and social
vulnerability. Compared with that of males, the female reproductive
tract is more susceptible to infection with HIV and other STDs,
particularly in younger girls. And girls often risk infection very
early. Compounding the biological vulnerability of girls are complex and
unhealthy societal expectations that mean girls and young women have
less control over their lives and bodies than do their male
counterparts. For more information, visit http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-4236.html.
WEBSITES
Gender
and Political Participation
The
Gender and Political Participation site area provides up-to-date
information on the status of women's political participation world-wide,
and acts as a means of encouraging partnerships and networks between
organizations dedicated to enhancing the political participation of
women. In addition to International Idea's Handbook "Women in
Parliament: Beyond Numbers", the gender site also offers
information on topics such as the issue of quotas, gender desegregated
voter turnout statistics and web links on worldwide gender legislation.
The website can be found at: www.idea.int/gender/.
For further details, please contact: info@idea.int.
UNDP
Gender Library Online
UNDP’s
Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS is pleased to announce an online
gender library. The site
included information on the bureau’s gender-related activities, books,
contacts, and more. They encourage organizations working on related
issues to submit information (with no copyrights) in electronic form to
the website. Visit http://www.undp.sk/genderlibrary.
The
Breast Cancer Site
Visit
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites
and the Breast Cancer Site will help fund mammograms. The number of
people visiting the Breast Cancer Site directly impacts the number of
mammograms they provide. Please take a moment to visit their website –
it is a free and easy way to help pay for mammograms to those women who
cannot afford to themselves.
Auntie
Stella – Reproductive Health Training
A
new web-based resource for Adolescent Reproductive Health from the
Training and Research Support Center (TARSC) based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Auntie Stella talks to teenagers about sex, life, relationships
and engages in discussion and problem solving on different aspects
related to adolescents’ reproductive health.
White
Ribbon Alliance for Save Motherhood
The
global Secretariat of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA)
recently launched its new website: www.whiteribbonalliance.org.
The WRA website contains a vast array of information including an
extensive links section and our new photo library. The photo library is
a collection of photographs received from the members depicting maternal
and child health from around the world. The photo library is searchable
and photos are available for free (by request) for use in presentations,
publications, websites and other materials.
New
Disability Website
This
informational resource website is designed specifically for people with
disabilities and special healthcare needs, as well as those involved in
their care and development. The
website features the latest information and products accessible from
home or office, links to national and local organizations working on
disability issues, a bulletin board, daily updated news, and more. Visit
www.vwcdexpo.com.
Saving
Women’s Lives
This
website aims to educate and raise awareness of the broad range of
women's global health and rights issues, including reproductive health,
safe motherhood, poverty and economic development, violence against
women, women's social status and education.
Visit http://www.savingwomenslives.org/.
Center
for Women & Information Technology
This
website includes ICT resources for women around the world: News articles
about women and ICT; annotated links to web sites and email lists that
focus on women and science/technology, etc.
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/.
LISTSERVES/DISCUSSION
FORUMS
SustDev
eNewsletter
Subscribe
to Sustainable Development International, an e-zine issued to SDI
Journal readers and online uses of www.sustdev.org.
To subscribe and receive past and future editions, visit http://www.sustdev.org/subscribe/
or call Beccy Green on +44 (0) 20 7871 0123
Know
Your World: OneWorld U.S. Daily Headlines
OneWorld
U.S. (http://www.oneworld.net/us)
now offers a Daily Headlines email service. This service culls through
hundreds of nonprofit and specialized news agency articles every weekday
and compiles to most topical and engaging articles on environment,
development, human rights, U.S. foreign policy, and globalization.
Subscribe to the new service at: http://owa.benton.org/archives/oneworldus.html.
For more information, email us@oneworld.net.
BRIDGE
In Brief Listserve
BRIDGE
invites you to subscribe to its listserve In Brief. It is available in English, French, and Spanish. BRIDGE
supports gender mainstreaming efforts by bridging the gaps between
theory, policy and practice with accessible gender information. Based at
the Institute of Development Studies in the UK, BRIDGE was set up with
financial assistance from the OECD-DAC agencies. For further
information, please contact: Susie Jolly, BRIDGE, Institute of
Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK, tel:
+44 (0) 1273 877747 fax: +44 (0) 1273 621202, email: bridge@ids.ac.uk,
http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge.
Barcelona
Update on 13th Annual AIDS Conference
To
receive weekly updates on the processes and preparations for the 13th
Annual AIDS conference in Barcelona, Spain, July 7 –12, 2002, contact editor@nigeria-aiads.org.
Visit http://www.aids2002.com.
BOL
– Gender and Development in South Asia
This
listserve is for people and organizations within & outside South
Asia, who are interested in discussing issues of gender, reproductive
health, rights & legal developments pertaining to human rights
within the region. For more
information, contact Ms. Anju Vyas, cwdslib@alpha.nic.in, or visit http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/frame2/frame2.html.
Women’s
Justice Center Forum
The
Women’s Justice Center Forum is a bilingual Spanish and English forum
where victims, activists, advocates, & professionals can communicate
on all aspects of violence against women and children. Visit www.justicewomen.com/wwwboard/wwwboard.html.
PUBLISHING
AND CALL FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
International
Perspectives: Global Voices for Gender Equity (Call for Papers)
Deadline:
May 1. The American
Association of University Women Educational Foundation in partnership
with the Educational Testing Service will hold its 2nd
International Symposium to explore how women create change from November
15 –17, 2002, in Washington, DC. The symposium will explore how women
have used their education to address the following key global issues:
literacy improvement; peace education and conflict resolution;
governance; education for people with disabilities. While
all pertinent submissions will be considered, the symposium will focus
on emerging nations. Deadline for submissions is May
1, 2002. For more information, visit http://www.aauw.org/7000/ef/.
email: intsymp@aauw.org.
Women’s
Tent at World Summit on Sustainable Development
WEDO,
in collaboration with South African women’s groups invites you to
participate in the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to be
held in Johannesburg in August –
September
2002. The purpose of the
WSSD is to revisit the commitments made in Rio ten years ago, evaluate
progress, and prepare for future actions toward sustainable development.
As in Rio, women need to be central to the decision-making process in
Johannesburg. The All Women's Voices Tent will be a space to share
experiences, network, strategize, and ensure that the WSSD's vision of
sustainable development integrates a gender perspective and reflects the
voices of women and will be a permanent physical space close to the
central UN and media conference center.
This will be a space for issue/regional meetings, workshops,
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