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Newsletters – 2012
April 2012
In this newsletter we compare three elements of
armament: the rights and the needs of women in conflict areas brought
to the Security Council, the continuous fight of IANSA against small
arms, and on the other hand, Military Spending worldwide.
With Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon we also express our gratitude to
Swedish Margo Wallström, who has brought “exceptional
leadership” to channelling the voices of survivors and victims of
conflict areas into the Security Council, demanding greater
accountability and justice at national and international levels. We
wish her success in the near future.
Also in this newsletter: information for NGOs at the Human Rights
Council; a moving story of mending fistula in Pakistan; the women's
movement on their way to RIO+20; a partnership between the EU and UN
Women to enhance gender equality; also a partnership inside the EU to
obsolete the enormous amount of pesticides; Honduras and the
'morning-after' pill, and last but not least, recent activities of the
International Alliance of Women.
Events and interesting websites are as usual at the end of this newsletter.
March 2012
At first NGOs at CSW were full of hope.
A very energetic speech of Soon-Young Yoon, as Vice Chair of the NGO
Committee on the Status of Women/NY, started the Conference. She
invited all representatives to more than 300 parallel events, on issues
ranging from trafficking of girls and women, to the family, ageing,
migration, intergenerational dialogue, health, and sustainable
development.
At the end, women were let down. Women were left with an unreadable
word puzzle and unfinished draft document, after a lot of bickering by
politicians on language that had already been accepted at former UN
Conferences. See also the statement of IAW President Lyda Verstegen.
On the other hand, most of the CSW resolutions were accepted. The IAW
side events went very well.
Compliments for all IAW reps who organised and attended those events!
In this newsletter an announcement of a possible 5th World Conference
on Women. I already heard tweets like: 'Fine, but without politicians'.
For IAW, with its history of lobbying for more women in leading
political positions, this idea gives room for thought.
The Human Rights Council is in full swing with interesting items. There
is news on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Bangalore,
India, there are figures on the differences between women and male
teachers and an answer to 'why'? Women as Agents of Change in the Arab
Spring are still in the news. Links to conferences, interesting
websites etc. are as usual at the end.
February 2012
This week our IAW representatives will be travelling to New York for CSW56. In this newsletter the schedule and two examples of the side events they have organised. Please be so kind to tell us your experiences. We wish you a safe journey, good negotiations, wise judgements and all the best!
A historic gain and congratulations for women in Pakistan: an autonomic status for the Women's Commission. On the website of UN Women a charming chapter called: Women on the Field. With a story of training women in Rwanda working in a co-op. UN Women is also, with the Elders, campaigning against child marriages in South Asia.
The procedures of the Arms Trade Treaty (consensus yes or no) is still being discussed and preparing Rio+20 urgently needs more ambition. The UN asks civil society for inputs for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Women's Lobby is looking at Ireland to see what the government will do with the purchase of sex.
Events and conferences are as usual at the end of the newsletter.
January 2012
In this first 2012 Newsletter we go to the Middle East, to Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Jordan, with CEDAW and using quotas. Which strategy, when to use CEDAW, when to use quotas?
An article on Women in Leadership, from Egyptian Queen Ku-baba in 3000 BC to women Prime Ministers in 2012, fired our imagination. And at the base of the women's movement is a four-million-strong all-woman network that is rewriting the social and economic history of Kerala, India. From bottom to top!
The security of displaced women still fails and could be improved by some simple precautions. Also, women keep striving for a prosperous, secure and sustainable future for both people and the planet when discussing and amending the Rio+20 Zero Draft Outcome Document in New York on 25-27 January 2012.
Data on conferences, events and reports are as usual to be found at the end of the IAW Newsletter.
