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The UN High Commission on Human Rights is calling for input for their consultation on the protection of Human Rights in relation to HIV/AIDS where this affects women and girls. Responses by 15 September 2010, in Word-format to: HR& This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

For more information see: http://www.wunrn.com/news/2010/08_10/08_16_10/081610_call.htm

The UK Border Agency is holding a consultation on non-EU migration limits, with responses to be submitted online by 17 September 2010. For more information see:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/aboutus/consultations/limits-on-non-eu-migration/

The EHRC / SHRC Specialist Consultation on the Human Rights Measurement Framework will run until the 12 September 2010. For more information see: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/PRECHR/

United Nations Development Fund for Women

Currents

UNIFEM’s August Newsletter includes an update on preparations to make the newly established UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, fully operational by January 2011

http://www.unifem.org/news_events/currents/issue201008_en.php

A global strategy to stop health-care providers from performing FGM

The UN Population Fund.

This global strategy against medicalisation of FGM has been developed in collaboration with key stakeholders, including UN organizations and health-care professional bodies, national governments and NGOs. The strategy is intended for a broad audience of policy-makers in governments, parliamentarians, international agencies, professional associations, community leaders, religious leaders, NGOs and other institutions.

http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/lang/en/home/publications/pid/6478;jsessionid=5DE77402430CE34D0CA8A271F74D2392

Setting the Record: The Trafficking of Migrant Women into England and Wales

The Association of Chief Police Officers has published a significant report on the trafficking of migrant women into prostitution. They found that at least 2600 sex workers had been trafficked into the UK, primarily from Eastern Europe, China and Thailand.

http://www.acpo.police.uk/asp/policies/Data/Setting%20the%20Record%20(Project%20ACUMEN)%20Aug%202010.pdf

Half the Sky: How to Change the World

Kristoff and Wudunn

A passionate, intensely researched and striking call to arms against the most pervasive human rights violation of the 21st century: the oppression of women in the developing world.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth, it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate, it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/19/women-slavery-half-the-sky

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Half-Sky-Nicholas-D-Kristof/dp/1844086828/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282220068&sr=8-1

Where is the Justice: Interethnic Violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan and its Aftermath

Human Rights Watch.

This 91-page report states that some government forces acted, knowingly or unwittingly, to facilitate attacks on ethnic Uzbek neighborhoods in the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010. Local law enforcement agencies also failed to provide appropriate protection to the Uzbek community. The government’s investigation into the violence, which left hundreds dead and thousands injured, has been marred with abuses, while new ethnically motivated attacks are taking place in the south.

The report is based on more than 200 interviews with Kyrgyz and Uzbek victims and witnesses, lawyers, human rights defenders, government officials, and law enforcement personnel. The report also analyzes satellite imagery and photographic, video, documentary, and forensic evidence.

http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2010/08/16/where-justice-0

Afghanistan: Women and the Reconciliation Process

Erin Foster

As Afghanistan moves towards a process of recovery, one of the key questions to address is what the role of women should be in the reconciliation and reintegration process.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/FERB- 88FJ8X?OpenDocument&query=gender

Our bodies are still trembling: Haitian women’s fight against rape

IANSA women’s network.

In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, IANSA women reported an increase in violence against women and particularly sexual violence at gunpoint in temporary shelters and camps. Many women report being raped by two or more men, almost always armed and at night. MADRE, an international women’s human rights organisation that works in partnership with community-based women's organisations worldwide, has released a report which says that rapes in the camps were dramatically under-reported, and that the Haitian government and international community "have not effectively deployed their resources to provide adequate protection".

http://www.iansa-women.org/node/515

Violence Against Women: Assessing the Situation in Jordan

UN Womenwatch

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ianwge/taskforces/vaw/VAW_Jordan_baseline_assessment_final.pdf

Feminists on the Frontline: AWID Case Studies of Resisting Fundamentalisms

This collection of case studies is a testament to the women and men around the world who have stood up to reject the imposition of norms and values in the name of religion as well as to expose and challenge the privileged position given to religion in public policies.

http://www.wluml.org/node/6563

Events…

Small State, Big Society: How will women fare?

7^th October 2010, Wellsprings Leisure Centre, Cheddon Road, Somerset

The aim of the day is to develop awareness about structural and policy changes being implemented by the new government, and the rights and opportunities that women can deploy to ensure that women’s interests are fully recognised in policy decisions affecting their local areas.

Keynote speakers:

Ceri Goddard: Chief Executive, the Fawcett Society

Adele Baumgardt: Consultant – Women in Business

Speaker - Rape Crisis: Tackling violence against women (tbc)

To register please see: http://www.equalitysouthwest.org.uk/events/october-2010/small-state-big-society-how-will-women-fare.html

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2010 13:09

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