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Newsletters - 2008
The main issue of this newsletter is women and health. On sexual reproductive health, population and development, female genital mutilation, vaccine therapies, HIV/AIDS and immunotherapy etc.
The Human Rights Council (HRC) has covered an enormous amount of issues. New is the UPR or Universal Periodic Review, where each of the participating 48 member states is confronted with its own profile on human rights, as seen by the others.
Louise Arbour leaves the HRC after a distinguished career; the United Arab Emirates appoints its first woman judge; UNIFEM has a new Executive Director, and rising Food prices are causing problems. At the end of the newsletter, as usual, upcoming conferences and interesting links.
In this newsletter some results of CSW. Actually, we had hoped for more. Although all member states were convinced that empowerment of women was badly needed, for example to reduce poverty in the projects of the Millennium Development Goals, financing gender equality was a different matter. Gender responsive budgeting is a tool we can and have to use to claim equal rights!
The main subject of this newsletter is ‘violence against women’. It is such a vast subject that we can only mention the good intentions of the UN, with a statement by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the campaign of UNIFEM. Please support that campaign with your signature!
You will find also the latest news of IAW and at the end some interesting reports and useful links.
The IAW delegation and other IAW members representing their organisations, are on their way to CSW in New York with bags full of papers and with our good wishes for a successful conference.
In this newsletter news of the IAW side event at CSW, of CEDAW, trafficking, the struggle to reduce HIV/AIDS, a special Women’s Day Seminar in Geneva, Switzerland. Around the world with Australia, India, Saudi Arabia, and Mary Robinson.
Also: A hundred year old campaign for change by women: 1908-2008 - Women’s Day!
You will find data on conferences and international days at the end.
This supplementary newsletter is announcing the IAW event at the Commission on the Status of Women:
“Gender Budgeting: Gender justice of public expenditure”
On the 25th of February 2008, from 3:15 to 4:45 PM.
At the Church Centre - 2nd Floor.
Members of the panel will consider gender budgeting implementation and will highlight the progress made in some regions, in contrast to the slow or non implementation in OECD states.
Marion Boeker, boeker-consult/Consultancy on Human Rights and Gender Issues Implementation & Transfer, Deutscher Staatsbürgerinnenverband, will be the Moderator.
Please note that details of the session titled “Weaving the World’s Women Together” listed in the January Newsletter are incorrect - our apologies.
In all countries women’s organisations are preparing for the 52nd CSW and so is IAW. The threeissues are of equal importance. See also ‘Weaving the World’s Women Together’.
In this newsletter news about CEDAW, UNCTAD, the national tipline in Canada, leadership training for Muslim women in Delhi, police training for Liberian women, gender guidelines to implement two European Asylum Directive, and smashing the glass ceiling in Norway.
As usual you will find news of conferences, publications and events at the end of the newsletter.
