Dear Readers, Kindly find below the latest issue of the Gender and Development e-Brief (No 105) published by CRTDA ( yes the NGO i luv:-) )
Please note that the Development e-Brief is posted on line on the following URLM: http://crtda.org.lb/webfm_send/407
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Issue 105 February 2011 (A Special Issue dedicated to women in the Arab Revolutions) NEWS & ARTICLES ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ WOMEN IN ARAB REVOLUTIONS Activists Condemn Brutal Attack on Woman Reporter in Tahrir Square – Egypt Activists ask: “Where are the women?” in the Egyptian Revolution Women of the Egyptian Revolution Calling upon Feminist Sisters all Over the World to Show Solidarity with Egyptian Women! Women of Egypt: Photos and video Photo Gallery of Women in Demonstrations in Egypt Petition: New Constitution Should Guarantee Women’s Rights No Women on Egyptian Constitutional Committee Women Play Equal Role In Tunisian Revolution Women Play Important Role in Tunisian Revolution Global Fund for Women: Solidarity with Women/People of Egypt Women of the Egyptian Revolution – Photo Gallery WOMEN”S RIGHTS ACTIVISM Shirin Ebadi & Rights Groups Demand Moratorium on Executions Bahrain & Gulf – Women’s Stronger Global Voices & Rights – Women Rally for Stronger Voices VIOLATED GENDER RIGHTS Afghani Government’s Takeover of Women’s Shelters Adds Insult to Injury Maldives: Females cannot perform marriage ceremonies under Islam, declares Fiqh Academy Returnees Attacked on Way to Southern Sudan Iraq – Many Widows – Polygamy Issues Considered – Divisive GENDER RIGHTS Palestine/Israel: Queer activists Challenge The “Pinkwashing” of the Israeli Occupation Model Muslim Marriage Contract in the UK Questioning effectiveness of National Action Plan to combat VAW in Turkey Saudi Arabia – Away from Cities, Women Drive Syria Stiffens Punishment for Honour Killings UN WOMEN UN Women Celebrates Its Launch UN Women Director Advocates for Women at World Economic Forum BOOKS & REPORTS ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ GENDER RIGHTS Israel – Compensation to Victims of Trafficking – Report World Bank – Gender Equality as Smart Economics National Strategic Plan to Combat Violence Against Women in Palestine ILO Office for Arab States – Equality & Non-Discrimination ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Gender and Development e-Brief receives material from various sources for its publication. Should you wish to refer to these sources/ sites directly, the list includes publications from: AVIVA, http://www.aviva.org, AWID: http://www.awid.org, Democracy Digest: http://www.freedomhouse.org, Development Gateway: http://www.developmentgatway.org, Dignity: http://www.dignity.org, e-Civicus: http://www.civicus.org, Eldis: http://www.eldis.org, ESCWA: http://www.escwa.org.lb, GDB: http://www.developmentex.com, Global Knowledge Partnership: http://www.globalknowledge.org, IGTN: http://www.IGTN.org, ILO: http://www.ilo.org One World: http://www.oneworld.net, Siyanda: http://www.siyanda.org, The Daily Star: http://www.dailystar.com.lb, The Drum Beat: http://www.comminit.com, The Soul Beat: http://www.comminit.com, The World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org, UNDP: http://www.undp.org, Wicejilist: http://www.wicej.addr.com, WLP: http://www.learningpartnership.org; WIDE: http://www.wide-network.org; IRIN News: http://www.irinnews.org, Women’s UN Report Network: http://www.wunrn.com, Women Living Under Muslim Laws: http://www.wluml.org ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Gender And Development E-Brief is published by CRTD.A. To get all previous GAD e-brief issues please log on to: http://www.iris-lebanon.org/arabic/inner/ebrief.htm For more information about CRTD.A please visit: http://www.crtda.org.lb You are receiving this newsletter because you are a member of CRTD.A / IRIS. Please direct any comments to rchemaly@crtda.org.lb