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CAW UPDATE
EVENTS
CONFERENCES/MEETINGS
TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, AND COURSES
RESOURCES
MISCELLANEOUS
PUBLISHING, RESEARCH, AND FUNDING
OPPORTUNITIES
AWARDS
CAW
UPDATE
Nominations
Sought For 2002 InterAction Awards For Advancement of Women
InterAction 2002 Forum - CAW Events
Special NGO Briefings by UNIFEM Director Noeleen Heyzer
Upcoming Women and Diversity Leadership Summit and Gala 2002
46th Annual CSW Meetings in New York (Repeat)
RFP for Women's Programs in Afghanistan
Integrating Gender into the World Bank's Work: A Strategy for Action
EVENTS
Sweatshop
Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On The Global Factory (April 22)
Successful Public-Private Partnerships: Private Sector Perspectives
(April 23)
The Challenges of Afghanistan's Recovery: The Price of Indifference
(April 23)
We Walk So They Can Read (April 25)
Women's Action for New Directions' Annual Reception Honoring Eve Ensler
(April 30)
The National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) Media Awards Ceremony (May
8)
"A Taste of the World" A Benefit Featuring Cuisine and Voices
From Around the Globe (May 13)
Voices of Courage Awards (May 15)
Democratic Woman of the Year Award & Fundraising Dinner (May 20)
Policy And Hope In Africa: What Does The Future Hold (May 29)
CONFERENCES/MEETINGS
Annual
Corporate Governance Conference (April 28 - 30)
Second International Ethics Symposium (June 27 - 30)
Feminist Economics (July 12-14)
Rebuilding Societies Emerging from Conflict: A Shared Responsibility
(September 9 -11)
3rd World Congress of Rural Women (October 2 - 4)
Globalization, Justice and the Trafficking of Women and Children
(October 25 - 26)
The Human Rights Challenge of Globalization in Asia-Pacific-US:
The Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (November
13-15)
TRAINING,
WORKSHOPS, AND COURSES
Strategic
Leadership for Women in Human Resources
The Negotiation Edge: Everyday Skills for Women
Summer Institute: "Sexuality, Culture, and Society"
The Center for Popular Economics' 24th Annual Summer Institutes
Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming
New Faces, More Voices Program
KIT Training Workshops: "Gender, Citizenship and Governance"
& "Gender and Development"
International Training Centre of the ILO
RESOURCES
Books,
Reports, & Other Written Materials
Selected Publications
from Catalyst on Sale Until April 30
Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us
Human Rights for All: CEDAW
Women's Fundraising Handbook
Unseen Millions: The Catastrophe of Internal Displacement in Columbia
Planting Seeds and Meeting Needs: New Partnerships for Community-Based
Resource Conservation and Reproductive Health
New Bridges to Peace: Enhancing National and International Security by
Expanding Policy Dialogues Among Women
Facts for Life
Female sex worker HIV prevention projects: Lessons learned from Papua
New Guinea, India, and Bangladesh
Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS
Pandemic
International Rights of Women - The International Dimension of Human
Rights
Human Rights of Women - International Instruments and African
Experience
New Report on Discrimination Against Women Workers in Guatemala
Women Weren't Always in the Books
Online
Materials
CEDAW
Assessment Tool
IFAD Progress Reports on Gender Mainstreaming
Gender-Sensitive Programme Design and Planning in Conflict Affected
Situations
Mainstreaming Gender to Promote Opportunities
Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives
- Anglophone Africa Progress Report 2001
Media and Gender Monitor
Engendering the Global Agenda: the Story of Women and the United Nations
Protracted Conflict, Elusive Peace: Initiatives To End The Violence In
Northern Uganda
Toward a Compassionate Society
NGOs Today: Diversity of the Volunteer Experience
Websites
& Listservs
Electra
Pages at the Women's Information Exchange Website
INSTRAW Activities on Gender Aspects of Ageing
The Gender Equality Tool
New Gender and Health Website
BangongPanay
Roma Women Launch New Website
MISCELLANEOUS
The
Equal Rights Amendment: Unfinished Business for the Constitution (Video)
If Women Ruled the World - A Washington Dinner Party (Video)
World Neighbor's 2002 Catalog of Training Materials
Zed Books Publications
PUBLISHING,
RESEARCH, AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The
Impact of Global Issues on Women and Children
Women in Action (WIA)
Ecofeminist Ethics & Activism - Revisioning the Future
Gender and Technology
Human Rights and Public Security
Journal of Women's History - Special Issue on Women's Labors
Gender & Science Digital Library Project (GSDL)
Gender, Technology and Development
New Listing of Effective Campaigns
African Women Public Service Fellowship
AWARDS
The
Reebok Human Rights Award Program Seeks Nominations Of Young Human
Rights Activists
CAW
UPDATE
Nominations Sought For 2002
InterAction Awards For Advancement of Women
Submission deadline: April 30. For the 2002 award, which will be
presented at the annual Forum in June, the Commission on the Advancement
of Women invites InterAction members to submit self-nominations based on
progress within their own organizations. Many agencies are moving
forward on gender equity initiatives in their programs and/or in
management policies and practices. The CAW is excited about the range of
efforts members have undertaken and welcomes the opportunity to
recognize and reward these efforts. Members are strongly encouraged to
appreciate their own advances by submitting a nomination.
InterAction established the annual
Mildred Robbins Leet Award for the Advancement of Women in 1995 to
recognize member agencies' efforts towards greater gender equity in
programs and in management. The award is presented at InterAction's
Annual Forum. Previous winners include: American Friends Service
Committee (1995), Heifer Project International (1995), Academy for
Educational Development (1996), Partners of the Americas (1996), Accion
International (1997), Save the Children (1997), Lutheran World Relief
(1998), Oxfam America (1998), Opportunity International (1999),
Childreach (2000), CEDPA (2000), American Jewish World Service (2001),
The Hunger Project (2001). Their accomplishments ranged from
gender-balanced representation on Boards of Directors and within senior
management, to use of gender analysis and the collection of gender
disaggregated data in projects. To receive the nomination materials,
contact Julie Montgomery, jmontgom@interaction.org.
InterAction 2002 Forum - CAW Events
Registration for Interaction's 2002 Forum is underway! This year's forum
will be held at the Washington Marriott, from June 3 - 5, in Washington
DC. The CAW will be holding its annual Breakfast on June 3, entitled
"Diversity at the Top: Reconfiguring Senior Management,
Transforming Boards of Directors" and a workshop on "Meeting
the PVO Standards on Gender: Institutional Gender Audits as a Resource
for Change." For more information on Forum 2002, visit www.interaction.org.
Registration is available online. If you would like to ONLY
attend the Breakfast and not other Forum events, please contact Julie
Montgomery at (202) 667-8227 x152. Cost to attend the breakfast is $12.
Special NGO Briefings by UNIFEM
Director Noeleen Heyzer
- May 6, Washington, DC. Ms. Heyzer will share her thoughts on UNIFEM's
work and Afghanistan. She recently visited Afghanistan and worked
closely with the Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs to organize a
three-day meeting that brought together 60 Afghan women from seven
provinces to discuss issues of security, women's rights and women's
leadership with policy makers, Afghan officials and UN agencies in
Kabul. The briefing will be held on Monday, May 6, 2002, 2:00-3:00pm,
RSVP by May 3rd to Nora O'Connell. Ph: 202/841-2986 Email: nko@mindspring.com.
- May 7, Washington, DC. The CAW, the Women's Foreign Policy Group (WFPG),
United Nations Information Centre, and the US Committee for UNIFEM
cordially invite you to a Reception and Program on "Women's Rights
During and After Conflict: Afghanistan and Beyond" with Noeleen
Heyzer. The event will take place on Tuesday, May 7, at 6:00 pm
(Reception & Program). Please RSVP to Women's Foreign Policy Group
at Tel: 202-884-8131, Email: programs@wfpg.org.
Both events will take place at the
Academy for Educational Development, Greeley Hall, 1875 Connecticut
Avenue, NW, 3rd Floor.
Upcoming Women and Diversity Leadership
Summit and Gala 2002
The Business Women's Network (BWN) and Diversity Best Practices (DBP)
extend this special invitation to InterAction members to this year's
Women and Diversity Leadership Summit and Gala, October 23 - 24, at the
Omni Shoreham in Washington, D.C. The CAW encourages you to not miss
this opportunity to join corporate, non-profit and government leaders,
as well as entrepreneurs from the U.S. and around the world for
networking, informational forums, and special events to promote women
and minority owned business growth in the U.S. and international
marketplace. The Summit event has always drawn diverse international and
U.S. participation. As the voice of the NGO community has always been a
strong one on these issues, the CAW encourages you to participate and
share the information with your friends and colleagues. Events include:
Women's Global Day, Welcome Reception, BWN Women's Leadership Summit,
Diversity Forum, National Diversity Gala, and more.
Take advantage of special reduced
registration rates! To learn more or to register, please visit
www.BWNi.com or contact Jennifer Zaniewski at (202) 463-3764 or email
Jennifer@bwni.com. It is the mission of the BWN to aggressively build
upon their unique umbrella of support for women in business nationally
and internationally. Through their thousands of contacts and links in
the U.S. and abroad, BWN continually works to "build more business
for more women across more borders."
46th Annual CSW Meetings in New York
(Repeat)
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. The seminar examined the elements needed to create
effective strategies for mainstreaming gender-responsive actions into
development assistance. See attached Monday Developments' article for
more information.
The U.N. Commission on the Status of
Women approved a revised resolution which urges Afghanistan to fully
respect the equal human rights and freedoms of women and girls in
accordance with international standards, give priority to the
ratification of the CEDAW and its optional protocol, repeal all laws
that discriminate against women and girls, respect women's right to work
and to security, ensure equal access to education for Afghan women and
girls and ensure equal and full participation of women and girls in
civil, cultural, economic, political and social life in Afghanistan. For
more information: UN release (March 25); http://www.unfoundation.org/unwire/2002/03/18/24731;
Resolutions and decisions http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/46sess.htm#resolutions.
RFP for Women's Programs in Afghanistan
Deadline: June 21. The Office of Global Educational Programs of the
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition
for the Afghanistan Women's Teacher-Training Project. Public and private
non-profit organizations or universities meeting the provisions
described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501(c)(3) may submit
proposals to enhance the skills of Afghan women teachers working in
basic education. The project will be conducted in three phases and
Bureau funding of up to $200,000 is currently available to support one
grant. The entire Solicitation Package may be downloaded from the
Bureau's website at http://exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/menu.htm.
Integrating Gender into the World Bank's
Work: A Strategy for Action
Several major World Bank reports provide strong empirical evidence that
the gender-based division of labor and the inequalities to which ii
gives rise tend to slow down development, economic growth, and poverty
reduction. In response, the World Bank developed a strategy to find more
e3ffective ways to integrate gender-responsive actions into the World
Bank's development assistance work. Approved by heir full Board of
Executive Directors on September 18, 2001, this strategy paper is now
available to the public. The CAW has ordered copies for InterAction
members. If you are interested in receiving a free copy of the report,
please email your name, organization, and mailing address to Julie
Montgomery, jmontgom@interaction.org. Visit:
www.worldbank.org/gender/overview/ssp/home.htm.
EVENTS
Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women
Workers Take On The Global Factory
April 22, Washington, DC. You are invited to a book signing party with
Miriam Ching Louie, author of "Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women
Workers Take On the Global Factory," published by South End Press
(2001). The party will be held on Monday, April 22, 2002, from 3:00 -
5:00 pm, at the AFL/CIO, 815 16th Street. Sweatshop Warriors highlights
the voices of Chinese, Mexican, Korean and Thai immigrant women workers,
the pioneers of the growing anti-sweatshop movement. No RSVP required.
Successful Public-Private
Partnerships: Private Sector Perspectives
April 23, Washington, DC. The UNA-NCA Young Professional's For
International Cooperation and the World Bank Institute you to attend a
panel discussion on "Successful Public-Private Partnerships:
Private Sector Perspectives" (Part Two of a Three-Part Series of
Events on Public-Private Partnerships). Featured Panelists: Keith
Fulton, Vice President, Corporate Relations and Executive Director, AOL
TW Foundation, AOL, Time Warner; Gerry Matthews, Advisor, Group and
International Relations, Shell Oil Company; Charles Jones, Chief Program
Officer, Washington, DC Partnership Office, Fannie Mae. The panel
discussion will be held on April 23, 2002, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the World
Bank, Room MC3-101, 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC. For security
reasons, only registered participants will be allowed to enter. Please
RSVP by April 21, 2002 to ppp_rsvp@yahoo.com
and fill the registration form at wbln0018.worldbank.org/wbi/wbicatalogue.nsf/ExtApp?OpenForm&code=GOV202-15-021&trail=ByTopic
The Challenges of Afghanistan's
Recovery: The Price of Indifference
April 23, New York, NY. Sponsored by the Women's Foreign Policy Group
Members and the Council on Foreign Relations New York Meeting. You are
invited to "The Challenges of Afghanistan's Recovery: The Price of
Indifference" with guest speaker, Arthur C. Helton, Senior Fellow
in Refugee Studies and Preventative Action, Council on Foreign Relations
and author of "The Price of Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian
Action in the New Century." This meeting will take place on Tuesday
April 23, 2002, at the Harold Pratt House, 58 East 68th Street, New
York. Reception: 5:30-6:00 p.m., Meeting: 6:00-7:00 p.m. RSVP to the
Women's Foreign Policy Group, Tel: 202-884-8131 Fax: 202- 884-8487 OR
Email: programs@wfpg.org,
Address: 1875 Connecticut Ave NW # 720, Washington, DC 20009,
Cancellations must be made 24 hours in advance.
We Walk So They Can Read
April 25, Washington, DC. As part of UNIFEM/USA's national "We Walk
So They Can Read" Campaign, the National Capital Chapter of UNIFEM/USA,
joined by Senator Susan Collins, will host a walk on Thursday, April 25,
2002, at 12:00 p.m., beginning on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. April
25th, as you may know, is also "Take Our Daughters to Work
Day," and the walk will serve not only as an important fundraising
and awareness event for UNIFEM/USA, but also a way to celebrate this
special day. For more information or to participate, contact Keri Rice
at (202) 721-1530 or email: uscommitteeunifem@counterpart.org.
Participation forms and additional information are also available on
UNIFEM/USA's website: www.uscommitteeforunifem.org.
They are asking that each participant pledge a minimum of $5 to the US
Committee for UNIFEM in support of UNIFEM's work in Afghanistan, which
can be turned in at the walk. Proceeds will go to support UNIFEM's
projects in Afghanistan.
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
30, from 5:30 - 7:30 pm at Hotel George (15 E Street, NW). For more
information, contact WAND at 781/643-6740. RSVP by April 29. Tickets:
$50/person.
The National Women's Political Caucus
(NWPC) Media Awards Ceremony
May 8, Washington, DC. NWPC, in partnership with American Univeristy's
Women and Politics Institute, invite you to attend the 16th Annual
Exceptional Merit Media Awards. This event will celebrate and honor
reporters, producers, and media outlets that have given a voice to women
and women's issues. The evening will be hosted by acclaimed journalist
and author, Eleanor Clift, and will be held on May 8, 6 - 8 pm, at the
National Press Club. Tickets: $50. RSVP to 202.785.1100 or info@nwpc.org.
"A Taste of the World" A
Benefit Featuring Cuisine and Voices From Around the Globe
May 13, New York, NY. The Trickle Up Program invites you to its annual
benefit celebrating the hard-working entrepreneurs of Trickle Up.
Founded in 1979, Trickle Up is an international nonprofit organization
dedicated to the alleviation of poverty by providing the poorest of the
poor with the opportunity to create their own businesses. This
spectacular evening will feature international food and wine tastings
from around the globe as well as staged readings by well-known
personalities of the compelling stories of Trickle Up entrepreneurs. The
event will be held 7:00 - 10:00 pm at the Skylight Room in the Puck
Building. For information and purchase of tickets contact Bronwyn
Redknapp at 212-255-9980 or email at development@trickleup.org.
For information on Trickle Up please see
www.trickleup.org.
Voices of Courage Awards
May 15, New York, NY. The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and
Children is proud to announce the recipients of the 2002 Voices of
Courage Awards for their outstanding work in promoting peace. This
year's recipients are Zejneba Sarajlic and Stanojka Avramovic (Bosnian),
Bushra Jawabri (Palestinian) and Julia Resnitsky (Isreaeli). They will
be awarded at a luncheon on Wednesday, May 15, 12:00 noon, at the
Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue at 45th Street, New York City. For more
information, contact Patricia Evert Production at pEvertProd@aol.com
or 212-414-2993. RSVP by May 6.
Democratic Woman of the Year Award
& Fundraising Dinner
May 20, Washington, DC. The Woman's National Democratic Club will be
hosting a fundraising dinner to honor Representative Nancy Pelosi. The
Club will present Ms. Pelosi with its "Democratic Woman of the Year
Award" in recognition of her groundbreaking achievement in being
the first woman eer elected to serve as Whip in the House of
Representatives. The dinner will be held on May 20, at the Woman's
National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave, NW, with cocktails at
6:30 pm and tributes at 7:30 pm. For more information contact the Club
at 202-232-7363 or email womansdc@aol.com.
Policy And Hope In Africa: What Does
The Future Hold
May 29, Washington, DC. The Luther Institute, in partnership with The
Lutheran Center for Theology and Public Life/LTSG and the Embassy of
South Africa in Washington, DC, present her Excellency, Sheila Sisulu,
South African Ambassador to the United States. Ambassador Sisulu will
present "Policy And Hope In Africa: What Does The Future Hold"
on Thursday, May 29, 7:30 pm, at the South African Embassy, 3051
Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC, Tel: (202) 232-4400, street
parking only. Former President Nelson Mandela appointed Ambassador
Sisulu to her current position in 1999. She has been an avid and visible
spokesperson for her country and African affairs. Before her tenure in
Washington, Ms. Sisulu served as Consul General at the South African
Consulate-General in New York City where she had been since 1997. For
more information, and for reservations (also needed by the embassy!)
contact: The Luther Institute, Tel: 202-547-5504, 1-800-662-5504, or kuchinsky@lutherinst.org.
Please RSVP by May 27, 2002.
CONFERENCES/MEETINGS
APRIL
- JUNE
Annual Corporate Governance Conference
April 28 - 30, Washington, DC. The National Association of Corporate
Director's presents their "Annual Corporate Governance
Conference" from April 28-30, 2002, at the Willard
Inter-Continental Hotel in Washington, DC. Corporate boards are under
increased scrutiny by shareholders, the public and the U.S. Government
following recent high-profile corporate crises such as Enron. Today's
corporate directors must be proactive in managing fiscal and security
risks - not just taking action when a crisis has occurred, but taking
preemptive actions against trouble that might be on the way. Join other
corporate directors, officers and CEOs to discuss critical boardroom
issues and examine your risk management practices at this premier
gathering of corporate directors - the NACD Annual Corporate Governance
Conference. Learn more and register at www.nacdonline.org.
Contact: National Association of Corporate Directors, 1828 L Street, NW,
Ste. 801, Washington, DC 20036, Tel: 202-775-0509, Fax: 202-775-4857,
email: info@nacdonline.org.
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.
Second International Ethics Symposium
June 27 - 30, Los Angeles, CA. PRIDE (Pacific Rim Institute For
Development And Education) invites you to attend their Second
International Ethics Symposium, "Global Morality: Current
Influences Of Secular Ethics & Religious Conscience" on June
27-30, 2002, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Over
100 internationally renowned scholars, educators and professionals from
many disciplines, including 25 leading scholars from the People's
Republic of China, will address critical issues in the areas of moral
and ethical conduct. The keynote speaker will be the Undersecretary of
the United Nations, the Honorable Chen Jian, at the Saturday banquet.
The invitees will present papers on the ethics, social standards, and
spiritual values called into question by the Religious and Secular
Scholars influencing Global Morality. A prestigious panel discussion on
the role of religion in this century will be televised. Contact: Joan
Rao, Phone/Fax: (760) 438-8825, Email: PrideJoanr@aol.com,
Web: www.PrideNgo.org, Email: Pride9@aol.com.
JULY
- DECEMBER
Feminist Economics
July 12-14, Los Angeles, CA. You are invited to attend the 11th Annual
Conference on Feminist Economics sponsored by the International
Association For Feminist Economics and the Department of Economics at
Occidental College. The Conference will be held on the campus of
Occidental College, in Eagle Rock California-just northeast of Los
Angeles. Special topics for panels will include: Interdisciplinary panel
on family policy and the welfare state analysis of the "care
sector" of the economy; Feminist contributions to international
anti-sweatshop and pro-living wage campaigns; Women and the border
economy-Mexico, immigration and economic integration. For more
information and to register, contact: Barbara Krohn, IAFFE, 100 D
Roberts Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, Fax: 570-577-34,
email: iaffe@bucknell.edu.
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.
Rebuilding Societies Emerging from
Conflict: A Shared Responsibility
September 9 -11, United Nations, New York, NY. The NGO Section of the
Department of Public Information is pleased to announce the 55th Annual
Conference for NGOs associated with the United Nations Department of
Public Information (DPI). This year's Conference, "Rebuilding
Societies Emerging from Conflict: A Shared Responsibility," will
explore the role of the international community in supporting societies
emerging from conflicts, looking in particular at those contemporary
examples that have been the focus of concerted UN involvement. It will
look at the common experiences of these efforts, their shortcomings and
successes, highlighting best practices where people have developed the
means to live together peacefully. All registration forms must be
received by 20 July 2002. For more information, visit http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/55thannualconf.htm.
3rd World Congress of Rural Women
October 2 - 4, Madrid, Spain. The Institute for Women, in collaboration
with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and co-financed by
the European Social Fund, will be organizing the 3rd World Congress of
Rural Women at the Juan Carlos I Convention Center in Madrid, Spain.
Over 1,500 rural women from five continents will attend this event. This
event will address the different structural and attitude-based problems
that prevent effective equal opportunities for women in rural
surroundings and in the fishing field. Registration and Information:
Technical Secretariat, International Presence C/ Viriato, 20 - 3ºD
28010, MADRID - ESPAÑA, Tel.: 34 91 4450122, Fax: 34 91 445 30 86,
email: cmmujer@presencia-inter.com,
Website: www.presencia-inter.com.
Globalization, Justice and the
Trafficking of Women and Children
October 25 - 26, Seattle, WA. The United Nations estimates 4 million
women, children, and men are victims of international trafficking
annually. This conference will together specialists from all around the
world to share their expertise on the field of trafficking within
Southeast Asia, South Asia, Russia, East Europe, East Asia, and Central
Asia. These experts include activists, academics, government officials,
health care providers, and law enforcement agents. They will share their
knowledge in the following workshops: Forced Migration; Global Legal
Systems and the Criminality of Trafficking; International Human Rights;
Labor Markets and Working Conditions; Political Economy and
Globalization; Public Health and Human Services; Trafficking in East
Asia and Southeast Asia; Trafficking in Russia, Eastern Europe, and
Central Asia; Trafficking in South Asia. This conference will be opened
to the community at large, as well as NGOs, researchers, and elected
officials. Contact: Gabriela Villareal at mglv@u.washington.edu
or 206-685-1090 for more information.
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.
The Human Rights Challenge of
Globalization in Asia-Pacific-US: The Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children
November 13-15, Honolulu, HA. This international conference is presented
by the Globalization Research Center-University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Trafficking in human beings is modern slavery, the underside of
globalization. In Asia, a recognized "supply" and
"demand" zone for trafficked persons, the practice is fed by
economic disparity, materialism, the low status of women and girls,
corruption, lax law enforcement, and is tied to global criminal
economies. This conference aims to bring together knowledgeable
stakeholders in Asia-Pacific-US with an action-oriented mandate to
provide concrete tools for governments to more effectively prevent
trafficking. For more information or to print out the conference
schedule, visit http://www.globalhawaii.org/PDF/trafficking.htm.
Contact information: Nancie Caraway, Ph.D, Director Women's Human Rights
Projects, Globalization Research Center, 1580 Makaloa Street, Suite 970,
Honolulu, Hawaii USA 96814, Tel: (808) 945.1450, ext. 120, Fax: (808)
945.1450, Email: traffick@hawaii.edu.
TRAINING,
WORKSHOPS, AND COURSES
Strategic Leadership for Women in
Human Resources
May 5 - 10, Boston, MA. The Simmons Graduate School of Management's
Executive Education will be holding a five-day leadership program
designed to help women better understand their leadership style, enhance
leadership potential and develop career management strategies to achieve
greater success in their organizations from May 5 - 10, 2002. For
additional information, contact Andrea Sanni at (617) 521-3835.
The Negotiation Edge: Everyday Skills
for Women
May 20 - 22 & November 18 - 20, Boston, MA. Sponsored by The Center
for Gender in Organizations. The Negotiation Edge: Everyday Skills for
Women program is designed for middle to senior level professional women
who recognize the need for improved negotiation skills to successfully
manage the day-to-day demands and challenges inherent in their position
and workplace. This intensive and practical program focuses on the
negotiation skills that women leaders need to succeed in today's
organizations. Deborah Kolb, CGO Co-Director and renowned negotiation
expert, will facilitate the workshop. For more information, contact the
Simmons School of Management Executive Education Program by emailing execed@simmons.edu
or call 617.521.3835
Summer Institute: "Sexuality,
Culture, and Society"
June 30 - July 26, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Summer
Institute is an intensive four-week summer program that focuses on the
study of sexuality across cultures and is taught by an international
faculty team. This specialized program is for advanced students,
primarily Ph.D. and MA students in the socio-cultural sciences and
professionals working for NGOs. The scientific directors are Dr. Carole
Vance (Columbia University) and Dr. Han ten Brummelhuis (Universiteit
van Amsterdam). The details and latest information are announced on the
Website: http://www.ishss.uva.nl/SummerInstitute/.
email: summerinstitute@ishss.uva.nl.
The Center for Popular Economics' 24th
Annual Summer Institutes
July 21 - 27, 2002, Smith College, Northampton, MA. The Summer
Institutes are week-long intensive training in economics for activists,
educators, and anyone who wants a better understanding of economics,
focusing on how economic systems impact our lives and work every day. No
background in economics is required. Although activists attend the
summer institutes from all over the world, classes and workshops are
taught in English. Course options include U.S. Economy or International
Economy. Participants must choose either the U.S. or International
course. For registration forms or more information please visit: www.populareconomics.org
or call (413) 545-0743. Application deadline: June 15, 2002
Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming
August 5 - 30, Norwich, United Kingdom. "Gender Mainstreaming:
Practical Skills and Critical Analysis" is designed for women and
men in governments, donor agencies and NGOs as well as individual
consultants and trainers, who have responsibility for mainstreaming
gender in development organizations and in national policy processes.
The course focuses on analyzing and addressing gender inequality in the
staffing, procedures and culture of development organizations as well as
in their development programs. It covers practical strategies and skills
for mainstreaming gender - including the use of gender planning
frameworks; addressing gender issues in Logical Frameworks; developing
gender policies; and designing and conducting gender training. Critical
analysis of current theory and practice is encouraged throughout the
course. For more information, please visit: http://www.odg.uea.ac.uk/pages/course_gender.html,
or email: odg.train@uea.ac.uk.
New Faces, More Voices Program
Summer 2002. New Faces, More Voices is a leadership training institute
of the National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO). Launched during
summer 2000, the purpose of this program is to strengthen the women's
movement by providing leadership training and skill building for interns
of NCWO member organizations. As a complement to their internship policy
work, this program provides NCWO interns with the training they need to
engage in effective advocacy and organizing around feminist social
justice issues. Through seminars and workshops New Faces, More Voices
fosters communication and collaboration among NCWO interns, feminist
policymakers, and other organizations with compatible social and
economic goals. This unique opportunity for broad-based training and
cross-generational dialogue provides NCWO interns with the skills they
need for advocating women's equity beyond their internships in
Washington, D.C. For more information about the New Faces, More Voices
program, visit www.womensorganizations.org
or contact Nichole Bennett, New Faces, More Voices program director, at
(202) 328-9759.
KIT Training Workshops: "Gender,
Citizenship and Governance" & "Gender and
Development"
Fall 2002. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- GENDER, CITIZENSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
(GCG-5) -- Sept 2 - 20, 2002. This workshop is geared towards
activists, researchers and policy makers active in the field of
gender and development. It will enable them to better apply
analytical tools and strategies to ensure that gender equity and
equality are prioritized in the governance agenda. The deadline for
submission of application forms is June 1, 2002.
- BASIC TRAINING WORKSHOP ON GENDER
AND DEVELOPMENT (WGD-13) - Nov 11 - 29, 2002. This workshop is
aimed at a broad spectrum of staff working for NGOs, governments and
agencies who need a thorough grounding in gender issues. The
deadline for submission of application forms is August 1, 2002.
For more information about the workshops
and an online application form, please visit http://www.kit.nl/gender
or email to Åsa Green, gender@kit.nl.
International Training Centre of the
ILO
Various Dates. The International Training Centre of the ILO offers
traininga nd learning opportunities to decision-makers, managers,
practitioners and trainers from governments, workers' and employers'
organizations and other development partners. To date, ninety thousand
women and men from more than 170 nations have benefited from the
training services. Training is offered in the following areas.
International Labour Standards and Human Rights, Employment and Skills
Development, Enterprise Development, Social Protection, Workers'
Activities, Employers' Activities, Social Dialogue and Public Sector,
Management of Development, Distance Education and Learning Technology
Applications, and Gender Equality. The upcoming course on Gender
Equality, "Mainstreaming Gender Equality in the World of Work: A
Capacity-Building Distance Learning Modular Course," will be held
in June 2002. For registration and price information, contact the
Recruitment Unit at gp-r@itcilo.it
or visit www.itcilo.it.
RESOURCES
BOOKS,
REPORTS, & OTHER WRITTEN MATERIALS
Selected Publications from Catalyst on
Sale Until April 30
In honor of Women's History Month, Catalyst is offering valued customers
a one time only chance to purchase their latest research at marked down
prices.
- Leadership Careers in High Tech:
Wired for Success:
$45 $30
Through interviews with women and men superstars at top high-tech
firms in Silicon Valley, this report sheds light on the skills,
experiences, and career strategies that lead to success in the
industry.
- Women of Color Executives: Their
Voices, Their Journeys:
$30 $20
This report, drawn from data gathered for Catalyst's 1999 study,
Women of Color in Corporate Management: Opportunities and Barriers,
delves further into the issues faced by African-American,
Asian-American, and Latina women. It tracks the careers of six women
of color executives and provides recommendations for companies.
- Women in Financial Services: The
Word on the Street:
$90 $60
Learn the perspective of women professionals in this first-ever,
in-depth report on women in the financial services industry.
Compares the experiences, attitudes, and perceptions of women to
those of their male colleagues in the industry.
- The Next Generation: Today's
Professional, Tomorrow's Leaders:
$90 $60
While Catalyst recognizes that no group is monolithic in its outlook
and experiences, this study aims to understand this generation's
motivations and determine whether widely held assumptions about this
generation of professionals are myths or realities. They chose to
focus on people in their mid-20s to mid-30s because they are
uniquely positioned to teach us about how the workplace is changing
or should change to attract, retain, develop, and advance new
talent.
Contact Tracie Maloney-Watson,
Publications Manager, at 212-514-7600 or email info@catalystwomen.org.
Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies
that Work for All of Us
In Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us, Holly
Sklar, Laryssa Mykta and Susan Wefald explain why a higher minimum wage
is needed to lift people in the United States out of poverty and
delineate policy prescriptions for the living wage movement. For more
information, go to www.raisethefloor.org.
Human Rights for All: CEDAW
Compiled and edited by Leila Milani. Published by the Working Group on
Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women, Human Rights for All: CEDAW is a
comprehensive information tool for gender practitioners. The booklet
discusses the history of CEDAW as well as its application to gender
equitable policies, in such areas as education, health care and civil
and political rights.
Women's Fundraising Handbook
This book explores key ideas about raising money to fund women's rights
work. It is especially designed for first-time fundraisers and for
women's groups in developing countries. It captures the essence of the
Global Fund's Women, Money and Empowerment workshops, which were given
for activists at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in
1995. Read the full text on-line at: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/4news/fundraising-handbook/1-intro.html.
Unseen Millions: The Catastrophe of
Internal Displacement in Columbia
The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children latest report
reveals the desperate situation of Columbia - due to ongoing violent
conflict. The internally displaced, the majority are women and children,
lack access to basic social services. Children and adolescents often
become victims of violence, sexual exploitation, and rape. To order a
copy of this report, visit www.womenscommission.org
or email wcrwc@theIRC.org.
Planting Seeds and Meeting Needs: New
Partnerships for Community-Based Resource Conservation and Reproductive
Health
Population Action International recently released "Planting Seeds
and Meeting Needs: New Partnerships for Community-Based Resource
Conservation and Reproductive Health." Emerging from a meeting held
last year on community-based population and environment, the report
presents case studies from Latin America, Africa and Asia and discusses
the critical role of effective monitoring and evaluation and
participatory development. For more details, visit www.populationaction.org
New Bridges to Peace: Enhancing
National and International Security by Expanding Policy Dialogues Among
Women
Women in International Security has recently released a workshop report
on "New Bridges to Peace: Enhancing National and International
Security by Expanding Policy Dialogues Among Women." Stemming from
a workshop held last April, the report looks at patterns of women's
organizing and recommends next steps to enhancing the influence of
women's organizations on peace building. For more information, visit www.wiis.org
Facts for Life
A guide providing families and communities around the world with
essential information on low-cost ways to help prevent child deaths and
diseases and to protect women during pregnancy and childbirth. FFL is a
joint effort of UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNDP, UNAIDS, WFP, and the
World Bank. For more information, contact webpromo@unicef.org.
Female sex worker HIV prevention
projects: Lessons learned from Papua New Guinea, India, and Bangladesh
This set of case studies emerged from a session entitled "Best
Practices in Female Sex Worker Projects" held at the Fourth
International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Manila,
October 1997. The three projects selected for case studies represent a
range of situations, geographical locations, problems and solutions. Two
of these, Sonagachi and SHAKTI, involve brothel-based sex workers in
South Asia. The Transex project works with club or street-based sex
workers in the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea. SHAKTI includes both
brothel and street-based sex workers in Bangladesh. Published by UNAIDS.
Contact: UNAIDS, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27 - Switzerland, Tel:
(+41 22) 791 46 51 Fax: (+41 22) 791 41 87, email: unaids@unaids.org,
web: www.unaids.org.
Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender
Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
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, atilana.landsberg-lewis@undp.org.
International Rights of Women - The
International Dimension of Human Rights
This casebook has been divided into seven chapters that deal with the
following topics: basic notions of international law; the relationship
between international law and domestic law; the right to an effective
remedy; the right to liberty and security of persons and the right not
to be tortured; the right to a fair trial; economic, social and cultural
rights; and other aspects of international protection of human rights,
such as the rights of women, the rights of indigenous peoples and
environmental rights. By: Robert Kogod Goldman, Claudio M. Grossman,
Claudia Martin and Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón. For more information or to
order, visit the IADB at: http://www.iadb.org/exr/pub/pages/book.asp?id=130
Human Rights of Women - International
Instruments and African Experience
Edited by Wolfgang Benedict, Esther M. Kiyaakye and Gerd Oberleitner.
This Zed Books publication examines the African experience in trying to
implement the international instruments dealing with the human rights of
women. Order book at: http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk,
or email: sales@zedbooks.demon.co.uk.
New Report on Discrimination Against
Women Workers in Guatemala
Human Rights Watch recently issued a report that states women in two of
Guatemala's female-dominated labor sectors face persistent sex
discrimination and abuse. The report, From the Household to the Factory:
Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan Labor Force, points to poor
enforcement and weak labor laws and U.S. companies ignoring their own
codes of conduct. For more information, visit www.hrw.org/reports/2002/guat.
Women Weren't Always in the Books
"Women Weren't Always in the Books," written by New Moon
Publisher, Nancy Gruver, is featured in Crown Books for Young Readers'
publication of 33 THINGS EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WOMEN'S HISTORY:
From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the ERA. Edited by Tonya Bolden,
as a companion to the best selling 33 Things Every Girl Should Know,
it's sure to appeal to today's young women. It is full of enlightening
information about some of the most prominent women in American history.
Female readers of all ages will be enlightened and grateful to those who
came before them and paved the way for the life they are able to live
today. For centuries, women have virtually fought for equal rights for
their gender, rights that men had from birth. As the stories illustrate,
the fight for the right to vote, for an education, the capability of
owning land or having your own money-things that many teenagers take for
granted today- was a long and difficult struggle to secure. For more
information, visit www.newmoon.org.
ONLINE
MATERIALS
CEDAW Assessment Tool
The CEDAW Assessment Tool is designed to measure the status of women
through the lens of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which has been ratified by 168
countries. The CEDAW Assessment Tool takes a hard look at a nation's
laws and measures the degree to which these laws promote and protect the
rights of women, as mandated by CEDAW, and measures the degree to which
women, in practice, are accorded the rights and status guaranteed to
them under CEDAW. The CEDAW Assessment Tool is designed to uncover these
and other obstacles that frustrate the achievement of greater gender
equality. The CEDAW Assessment Tool is available at: http://www.rightsconsortium.org/resources/asessment/gender.cfm.
A complete list of state parties to CEDAW is available at: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/states.htm.
For more information about the CEDAW Assessment Tool, please contact
Michael Maya: mmaya@abaceeli.org,
or Jennifer Denton: jdenton@abaceeli.org.
NGOs Today: Diversity of the Volunteer
Experience
A Final Report on the 54th Annual DPI/NGO Conference in available
through the United Nations Department of Public Information. Entitled
"NGOs Today: Diversity of the Volunteer Experience," the
conference was convened last September to highlight the increasingly
important role of volunteers in the work of the United Nations and civil
society organizations. The report is available online at www.un.org/dpi/ngosection.
Gender-Sensitive Programme Design and
Planning in Conflict Affected Situations
The Agency for Cooperative Research and Development (ACORD) has released
the results of its two year research in Uganda, Angola, Sudan, Mali,
Somalia, Eritrea, Rwanda. The report also includes several methodology
papers and workshop reports held in Timbuktu, Nairobi, and London. The
full report is available at http://www.acord.org.uk/b-resources.htm#GENDER,
email: davidw@acord.org.uk
Mainstreaming Gender to Promote
Opportunities
The Report of the UNCTAD (UN Conference on Trade and Development) Expert
Meeting on Mainstreaming Gender in order to Promote Opportunities
(November 2001, Geneva) is available online. It includes the gender
experts' policy recommendations for governments and international
community. Full document available at: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/c3em14d3.en.pdf
Women of the World: Laws and Policies
Affecting their Reproductive Lives - Anglophone Africa Progress Report
2001
Published by the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, this report
provides a survey of laws and policies related to the reproductive
health and rights of women, developed and implemented in seven
Anglophone African countries since 1997. Text available online at: http://www.crlp.org/pub_bo_wowafrica.html#progreport,
email: publications@crlp.org.
Media and Gender Monitor
Published online by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC).
This newsletter aims to strike a balance between research and news. It
provides in-depth coverage on the WACC regional conferences on gender
and communication policy, a forum involving media specialists, as well
as news on women and communications projects supported by WACC. It also
carries news on media and gender issues from around the world. Available
at: http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/main_index.html,
email: wacc@wacc.org.uk.
Engendering the Global Agenda: the
Story of Women and the United Nations
This new monograph is now available on the UN/NGLS Geneva website. The
booklet illustrates the remarkable impact women have make on the UN and
even its predecessor the League of Nations, since 1919. To order a
printed version, email ngls@unctad.org.
Visit www.unsystem.org/ngls/documents/publications.en/develop.dossier/index.htm
for an online copy.
Protracted Conflict, Elusive Peace:
Initiatives To End The Violence In Northern Uganda
The 11th issue of Accord features, "Protracted conflict, elusive
peace: initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda'. This issue,
produced in collaboration with our project partners Kacoke Madit,
documents the history of these peacemaking initiatives led by local
officials, elders and more recently by international governments and
institutions. It captures the complex story of how each failure to
consolidate and implement agreements reached has led to further spirals
of violence and an entrenching of mistrust between the conflict parties.
Ugandan and international authors examine the background to the current
conflict, the nature of the parties and the dynamics of the various
negotiation processes. The issue includes maps, a chronology and the
texts of agreements reached between the parties. It is intended to be a
resource to help future peacemaking initiatives learn from the past. The
publication is now available in web format from the CR web site and
includes related articles: http://www.c-r.org/accord/accord11.
For more information, contact Accord, Conciliation Resources, 173 Upper
Street, London N1 1RG, UK, accord@c-r.org, tel. +44 (0)20 7359 7728,
fax. +44 (0) 20 7359 4081.
Toward a Compassionate Society
The Women's Learning Partnership 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. Contributing authors include: Elise Boulding,
author of Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History; Charlotte
Bunch, executive director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership;
Mahbub ul Haq, chief architect of UNDP's Human Development Reports; Uma
Narayan, professor of philosophy at Vassar College; Arati Rao, scholar
of feminist political theory and women's rights; Aruna Rao, president of
the Association for Women's Rights in Development; Arvind Sharma,
professor of comparative religion at McGill University. The anthology is
available free of charge at: http://www.cultureofpeace.net
or www.learningpartnership.org/publications/catalogue.html#copanthology.
IFAD Progress Reports on Gender
Mainstreaming
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a
specialized agency of the United Nations, has published several reports
on gender mainstreaming in IFAD-assisted projects in several regions -
West/Central Africa and the Asia/Pacific Region. For copies of this
report, visit www.ifad.org/gender/progress.index.htm.
WEBSITES
Electra Pages at the Women's
Information Exchange Website
The Women's Information Exchange is the organization behind ElectraPages.
Electra Pages is a searchable database of over of 9,000 feminist groups.
The Women's Information Exchange has been doing computer-based
networking projects for over 15 years. They also offer the National
Women's Mailing List ; training with the Women's Computer Literacy
Project, including the literacy handbook for those who cannot afford to
attend the classes; the Women's Information Exchange National Directory,
which includes brief annotations of over 2,500 women's organizations.
Visit http://www.electrapages.com/.
INSTRAW Activities on Gender Aspects
of Ageing
INSTAW has an online bulletin board on gender and ageing. The Gender
Aspects of Ageing Bulletin Board aimed at providing a space for the
exchange of information, views and experiences on diverse aspects of
gender and ageing. This Bulletin Board has been set up in collaboration
with the Subcommittee on Older Women of the NGO Committee on the Status
of Women who has provided the briefs and questions on the twelve
critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action. Visit http://un-instraw.org/discus/messages/38/38.html.
The Gender Equality Tool
The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently launched a new
website to celebrate International Women's Day 2002. The Gender Equality
Tool is designed to promote information exchange and enhance knowledge
on gender related issues. Of specific interest - on the site - is
information about the recently completed and much publicized ILO Gender
Audit. Visit the site at: http://www.ilo.org/dyn/gender.
New Gender and Health Website
The Women, Health and Development Program at the Pan-American Health
Organization announce the launch of theirnew website devoted to Gender
and Health issues. The website offers a listserv with the latest gender
and health news, gender and health fact sheets or advocacy kits, a
virtual library, upcoming events, and much more. Visit http://www.paho.org/genderandhealth.
BangongPanay
New Filipina, Inc ( www.newfilipina.org
) is a growing non-profit org that produces BagongPinay. NFI's mission
is Filipina empowerment through multimedia. Their mission is to to
broaden Filipinas' horizons and to help them discover and harness the
power and strengths that they have within themselves. Their projects
also aim to connect Filipinas to other Filipinas around the world, to
ideas---old and new, and to the means to take action for themselves and
for others. The website features Forums, Resources, Poetry, Job
Listings, Events, and much more.
Roma Women Launch New Website
A new website has been launched by the Roma Women's Association of
Romania (RWAR). The site is the first of its kind for the growing
network of Roma women activists in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Visit
www.romawomen.org.
MISCELLANEOUS
The Equal Rights Amendment: Unfinished
Business for the Constitution (Video)
A short film produced by Ruth Pollack for the Educational Film Center,
The Equal Rights Amendment: Unfinished Business for the Constitution
documents a 75-year long political struggle to secure equal rights for
women under the US Constitution. For ordering information, contact Alice
Paul Centennial Foundation at (856) 231-1885.
If Women Ruled the World - A
Washington Dinner Party (Video)
"If Women Ruled the World" is a two-hour PBS documentary
special featuring an historic dinner party that took place June 23, 1999
in Washington,D.C.'s landmark Senate Caucus Room on Capitol Hill. The
dinner was hosted by Canada's first and only female prime minister, the
Honourable Kim Campbell, and the 19 guests were celebrated women from
diverse cultural, ethnic, generational, and professional backgrounds
coming together to share their experiences and observations as
trailblazers in male dominated fields and to explore the prospects for
full gender equity. The program was produced by Richard Karz, an
independent television documentary producer. Karz played a key role in
the development and implementation of the Barnard Summit on Women,
Leadership and Future in the fall of 2001. Karz is currently working on
the production of the Barnard Summit documentary for PBS, which is
scheduled to air in the late fall of 2002. For more information and how
to order the video, visit http://www.ifwomenruledtheworld.com/.
World Neighbor's 2002 Catalog of
Training Materials
Looking for a wide selection of training materials on sustainable
development? Check out World Neighbor's 2002 Catalog of Training
Materials to find books, flip charts and more on population and the
environment, community-based health, capacity building and gender. For
more information, contact World Neighbors at (404) 752-9700 or visit www.wn.org.
Zed Books Publications
Zed Books' Summer Catalogue is now available. Contents include materials
on crime, current affairs, development, gender, and human rights. To
request a copy, email zed@zedbooks.demon.co.uk
or visit www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk.
PUBLISHING,
RESEARCH, AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The Impact of Global Issues on Women
and Children
Deadline: Unknown. Papers are currently being accepted for an upcoming
conference on "The Impact of Global Issues on Women and
Children." The conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from
February 16 - 21, 2003. The conference offers participants the
opportunity to come together and collectively share their knowledge,
expertise and experience on issues relevant to effects of globalization
(positive and negative) on children and women. The objectives of the
conference are to limit (reduce) internal/external influences affecting
the quality of life of targeted risk populations, to share
implementation and evaluation strategies used to decrease incidents of
abuse against children and women, and to explore the outcomes (i.e.
lessons learned) of projects related to children and women. For more
information about the Conference or Call for Submissions, please
contact: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, McMaster University, 1200 Main St W,
HSC-3N28, Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8N 3Z5, Tel: (905) 525-9140 Ext.
22847/27533 Fax: (905) 521-8834, Email: ic2003@mcmaster.ca.
Women in Action (WIA)
Deadline: May 15. Isis International-Manila is coming out with the first
issue for 2002 of its magazine, Women in Action, with the theme,
"How media creates our enemies." For more information on
topics of interest, contact Irene R. Chia, Media and InfoCom Services
Programme Associate, Isis International-Manila, Street address: 3
Marunong St., Bgy. Central, Quezon City 1100, Philippines, Fax: (63-2)
924-1065, email: irene@isiswomen.org,
cc: communications@isiswomen.org.
Articles should be within 1,500 - 2,000 word range. Deadline for
submissions for Issue No. 1-2002 is May 15, 2002. A modest honorarium is
provided for articles that get published.
Ecofeminist Ethics & Activism -
Revisioning the Future
Deadline: June 7. The Southern Connecticut State University Women's
Studies Program announces a call for sessions for the 12th Annual
Women's Studies Conference, "Ecofeminist Ethics & Activism:
Revisioning the Future," to be held October 4-5, 2002 in New Haven,
CT. This conference will provide an opportunity to explore topics
regarding ecofeminist ethics and activism on a global scale and will
seek to promote interaction among academics, community leaders,
activists, professionals, artists, and others interested in women's and
environmental studies. All theoretical approaches are welcome as are
non-academic, practical or experiential workshops. For more information
including guidelines for submissions, visit http://www.southernct.edu/departments/womensstudies/Ecofeminist.htm,
email: womenstudies@southernct.edu
or call 203-392-6133.
Gender and Technology
Deadline: June 20. TechTrends, a refereed journal published by the
Association for Educational Communications and Technology, is seeking
articles dealing with Gender and Technology that focus on the practical
applications of technology in education and training. This issue will be
edited by Dolores Fidishun, Ed.D., Head Librarian at Penn State Great
Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies. Send submissions for
this issue only to: Dolores Fidishun, Ed.D. Head Librarian Penn State
Great Valley 30 E. Swedesford Rd. Malvern, Pa 19355, Email: dxf19@psu.edu.
Human Rights and Public Security
Deadline: June 21. Human Rights Dialogue, a biannual publication of the
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, is seeking short
essays (1000-1200 words) for its Fall 2002 issue on human rights and
public security. In recent years, public security has become an
increasingly urgent priority for policymakers worldwide. This widespread
concern for safety poses new challenges for rights groups. This issue
will focus on some of the challenges faced by human rights groups.
Submissions are especially welcome from activists or practitioners from
newly open societies and from regions where public security is
threatened by ongoing internal conflict, resource wars, criminal
networks, guerilla groups/non-state actors, or corrupt regimes.
Interested parties should direct their inquiries to: Jess Messer, jmesser@cceia.org
or tel: 212-838-4120 or fax: 212-752-2432. For more information, visit www.cceia.org.
Journal of Women's History - Special
Issue on Women's Labors
Deadline: August 1. The Journal of Women's History is soliciting
articles for a special issue on women's labors throughout the world,
under diverse economic and gender systems, and in all historical
periods. They are seeking manuscripts on all forms of women's work, both
paid and unpaid, including but not limited to family, household or
domestic labor; carework and motherwork; non-traditional and female
dominated occupations, as well as on a broad range of topics, such as
gender and informal economies; unionization, organizing, and forms of
resistance; workplace cultures, self-perceptions, and social
constructions; labor and the state; rights at work; and the relation of
women's labors to both the family and polity. For more information
visit: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=129657.
Gender & Science Digital Library
Project (GSDL)
Deadline: Open. The Gender and Diversities Institute at Education
Development Center, Inc. (EDC), is pleased to announce the start of its
first digital library initiative - the Gender and Science Digital
Library project (GSDL). The GSDL will be developed in collaboration with
the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse at Ohio State University, and is
funded by the National Science Foundation. They are seeking resources
that promote and implement gender-equitable STEM education in both
formal and informal settings, to both male and female students, and
assist in increasing female involvement in the sciences, and provide
resources to researchers and others working to understand the link
between gender and science, including how gender influences the
development of science and the role of women within science. Please
visit http://www.edc.org/GDI/GSDL
for more information. Contact: Sarita Nair, Project Director Gender
& Science Digital Library Gender and Diversities Institute EDC, 55
Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458, Phone: 617-618-2164,
Fax: 617-332-4318, Email: snair@edc.org.
Gender, Technology and Development
Deadline: Open. Gender, Technology and Development is a tri-annual,
international, refereed journal that provides a forum for exploring and
examining the linkages between gender relations, technology and
development. The diverse perspectives of the Asian region provide the
focus for discussion. Research, discursive analysis and dialogue along
East-West and North-South lines also form an important aspect of the
journal. Each issue of GTD carries four to five well-researched academic
articles, select book reviews, NGO profiles, conference and workshop
reports and news relating to the issues of gender, technology and
development. They regularly publish special issues on pioneering topics
that promise to change analyses and perspectives on gender and
technology in Asia. The journal is published by Sage Publications India
Private Limited, New Delhi, India, and is based in Gender and
Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. To send
your contributions, contact the editors at GTDjournal@ait.ac.th.
For subscriptions, contact Sage Publications at their New Delhi, London
or California offices or online at www.sagepub.com
or www.sagepub.co.uk.
New Listing of Effective Campaigns
Project Parity (training future women leaders worldwide) is compiling a
listing of 50 eye-catching campaigns that NGOs and pressure groups have
used successfully to attract press and media attention, to bring their
cause to public and political attention. They are very keen to hear from
other organizations about short, inexpensive successful events that have
caught the Press and Media attention. The listing will be made available
to any campaign groups, particularly new ones, to help them plan their
own campaigns. They would appreciate suggestions for inclusion in the
list-campaigns on your or any subjects you have run or campaigns on any
subject (environment, health, education, peace-making, equality,
reconciliation, violence against women, etc) you have heard about. For
further information, or to send information about campaigns, contact:
Tim Symonds, Executive Director, Project Parity, United Kingdom. Tel:
+44(0)1892 891 106; Email: tim.symonds@shevolution.com;
or visit their Website at: http://www.shevolution.com.
African Women Public Service
Fellowship
Masters of Science Deadline: October 1. The Robert F. Wagner Graduate
School of Public Service at New York University has announced, as part
of their international initiative, the creation of the African Women
Public Service Fellowship. The fellowship was established to expand the
opportunity for African women to prepare for public service in the home
countries. Funded by The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, the fellowship offers
African women to study in one of the two graduate programs at NYU's
Wagner School: the two-year Masters of Public Administration program
(Deadline passed) or the seven-month Masters of Science in Management
Program in International Public Service Organizations (Deadline: October
1). The fellowship awards for these programs will support tuition,
housing, travel to and from the United States, and a small stipend to
cover books and miscellaneous expenses. Candidates should indicate their
interest in the fellowship by outlining in their personal statement how
they will use the masters degree to strengthen their public policy and
public services in their own country or internationally. In addition,
candidates should clearly identify themselves as African Women. For more
information, contact: Katherine Johnson, Program Administrator, Office
of International Programs, 269 Mercer St. Room 205, Tel: 212-998-7411,
Fax: 212-995-4165, Email: katherine.johnson@nyu.edu.
AWARDS
The Reebok Human
Rights Award Program Seeks Nominations Of Young Human Rights Activists
Deadline: May 31. Members of the international community of human rights
and NGOs are urged to nominate young men and women to honor for their
courage and contributions to further human rights. The Reebok Human
Rights Award was established in 1988, and has since then, provided 67
young activists from 35 countries support and encouragement at a
critical time in their advocacy work. The award, which seeks to shine a
positive, international light on the awardees and to support their work
in human rights, provides recipients with a $50,000 grant from the
Reebok Human Rights Foundation for the human rights organization of
their choice. Award candidates must be 30 years of age or younger by
December 31, 2002. Award candidates must be working on an issue that
directly relates to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. All interested individuals are encouraged to make nominations no
later than May 31, 2002. Recipients will be selected by December 1,
2002. For more information, visit www.hri.ca/hraward/
or www.reebok.com/humanrights.
email: humanrights@reebok.com
or Rhraward@reebok.com. Tel:
781 401 4910 fax: 781 401 4806.
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