Announcements
Letter to Ms. Michelle Bachelet: Women from Around the World Call for Women’s Participation in the Peace Talks on Colombia and Mali
"Dear Ms. Bachelet,
We, the participants at the various side events that the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)-International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) organized in New York during the 12th anniversary of UNSCR 1325, and women from around the world express our deep concern over the absence of women at the negotiation table in the ongoing peace talks between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Read more...Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA): 79 Members and 2 Babies Arrested for WATER Protest
"Seventy nine members and two babies are under arrest at Bulawayo Central police station for staging a peaceful protest at the City Council Tower block on the water issue. At noon 12 November 2012.
Read more...Jailed Dissident Iranian Lawyer Allowed To See Her Children
Jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been allowed to see her children in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for the first time in weeks.
Read more...Daghestani Lawyer Gets Swedish Humanitarian Prize
A prominent female lawyer from Russia's troubled Republic of Daghestan has received the Per Anger Prize in the Swedish city of Gothenborg.
Read more...The Balcony Faction: Indonesian Women’s Platform
Formed to challenge the lack of women’s representation in the Indonesian government, the Balcony Faction has become a powerful platform for getting women to speak out directly to legislators in session. Protesting from the balcony of Parliament, Indonesian women are making it impossible for Parliamentarians to ignore their advocacy demands.
Read more...Back from Geneva: A Message from Jessica Stern
"Friends,
'Not your Grandma’s CEDAW,' is what a friend wrote on my Facebook wall when I referenced a recent meeting to evaluate Chile’s compliance with an international treaty condemning violence against women.
Read more...Communique: Women Fund Tanzania: National Convening on Women’s Rights Issues and Constitutionalism in Tanzania
More than 110 women from over 50 different national and local Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) and networks from across 19 regions of Tanzania, (Mainland and Zanzibar) whose work focuses on women’s rights, met at the Blue Pearl Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on the 22-24 October 2012, to discuss women’s rights issues as they relate to on going processes of developing a new constitution of the Republic of Tanzania.
Read more...Syrian Women Making Peace Forum Launches in Cairo
In a first of its kind initiative, more than forty Syrian women from all walks of social and political life, convened a working seminar in Cairo to form the “Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace” between October 30 and November 1 2012.
Read more...Ugandan parliamentary speaker promises to revive anti-gay law
The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament has claimed the country’s notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill will soon be passed by lawmakers.
Read more...Iran: Nine Female Political Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike
According to reports published on the site of the reformist website Kalame, 9 more female prisoners in Evin Prison in Tehran, have launched a hunger strike to protest mistreatment by prison guards, including storming of the prison, inappropriate search of the premises and physical search of the women.
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