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WiLDAF Monthly Newsletter - July 2007
Contents:
Recent Publications received in the Information Resource center.
Information on Trafficking of Women and Girls in Africa.
Upcoming Training/Workshops/Events.
Introduction.
This month we focus on the issue of trafficking, especially of women and girls who have increasingly become ensnared in this form of modern day slavery. more
Recent Publications in the Information Resource Center.
The Unfinished Story of Women and the United Nations? by Hilkka Pietila.
January 2007.Reference Number: UNCTAD/NGLS/2007/1 www.un-ngls.org - This is a revised and updated version of the January 2002 book, ?Engendering the Global Agenda: The story of women and the United Nations?. The book highlights the progress made in relation to the status of women since 1919 up to now. It looks at women?s struggles and how they are now at the forefront of the international agenda and the various declarations, covenants and programmes made that seek to advance and empower women.
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights [NQHR].
Jubilee issue of the NQHR; Volume 25 Number 1[March 2007] mail@intersentia.be OR Visit: www.intersentia.com - This publication contains scholarly articles on issues of human rights in the world and how to promote and protect human rights. This edition contains papers that were presented in 2006 at the master?s classes hosted by SIM, The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Articles in this edition include, A socio-legal Perspective on Human Rights and Policing, Advocacy Accountability: The [Re] forming of a refugee Rights Discourse in South Africa, Transitional justice and its Legitimacy: The Case for a Local perspective just to mention a few.
Exposing Hidden War Crimes: Challenging Impunity for Sexual Violence in Times of Conflict
A Seminar Report by ACCORD, March 2007:email:janah.ncube@acordinternational.org
This report explores sexual violence in times of conflict and how it impacts on the lives of its victims. It discusses the issue of impunity for sexual crimes in our societies and looks into why and how perpetrators of these crimes get away without being punished and/or made accountable for their crimes. Proposals for much needed interventions are made and it explores ways of ending sexual violence through creating an environment in our societies, our legal systems and processes that does not tolerate sexual crimes against women and children. To view this document click here [reminder to create hyperlink as l have loaded document into the CMS]
Gender and Indicators Cutting Edge Pack (CEP) By Bridge, July 2007 http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports gend CEP.html#Indicators.
This pack seeks to ensure that gender sensitive and other measurements of change are articulated - for building the case for taking gender (in) equality seriously, for enabling better planning and actions, and for holding institutions accountable for their commitments on gender. This Cutting Edge Pack also contains an Overview Report outlining key issues, a Supporting Resources Collection providing summaries of key texts, tools, case studies and contacts of organisations in this field.
Trafficking of Women and Girls.
Trafficking is a big challenge globally, and individuals have disappeared from the face of the earth without a trace. Many people, especially young girls have been lured by false promises of greener pastures, modeling, education, or are kidnapped for the sole purpose of sexual exploitation. What exactly is human trafficking? The United Nations defines trafficking as the ?recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.? Due to the magnitude of the challenge African governments adopted the Protocol To Prevent, Suppress And Punish Trafficking In Persons, Especially Women And Children, Supplementing The United Nations Convention Against TransnationaL Organized Crime (NEW YORK, 15 NOVEMBER 2000) [2003] ATNIA
In Africa bodies have been set up to address the issue of trafficking and assist individuals who have been offered opportunities to go abroad. These include:
International Organisation for Migration [IOM] is an organisation that monitors cross border migration and rescues individuals forced into trafficking. In Southern Africa, for example, the organization runs a program called the Southern African Counter- Trafficking Assistance Program [SACTAP] which ensures that victim?s basic human needs are met through the provision of shelter, education, psychological support and reintegration into home countries and families. The IOM is an intergovernmental organization that resettles European Displaced persons, refugees and migrants. It works with governments and migrants to provide humane responses to migration challenges. For more information visit: www.safemigrationzimbabwe.com
Southern African Migration Project[SAMP] is an international network of organizations that promote awareness of migration-development linkages in Southern African Development Community[SADC].It conducts research on migration and development issues, provides policy advice and expertise, offers training in migration policy and management. It also conducts public education campaigns on migration-related issues. For information visit: www.queensu.ca/samp/ or email msibi.n@pdm.wits.ac.za or kate@idasact.org.za
Upcoming Events / Training /Workshops.
Global Course by The World Bank: ?Achieving the Millennium Development Goals[MDGs]:Poverty Reduction, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform?
22 ? 31 August 2007
Bangkok, Thailand
A course exploring the key elements in designing efficient, equitable and financially sustainable population policies and reproductive health programmes in the context of the health sector and MDGs.
After this people will try to identify the linkages among health, gender and poverty.
Tel: +1 202 473 4805
Fax: +1 202 67609961
Email: ljoo@worldbank.org OR Tmerrick@worldbank.org
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/WBIPROGRAMS/HNPLP/0,
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Regional Course on Civil and Political Rights
20 August -7 September 2007
Harare, Zimbabwe.
The course offered by the Human Rights Trust of Southern Africa. [SAHRIT] and it aims to bring pertinent civil and political rights issues to the forefront. The course content includes:
- introduction to International Law, with focus on: International human rights law, International humanitarian law and refugee law;
- concepts of human rights;
- main human rights instruments with emphasis on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [ICCPR];
monitoring and enforcement mechanisms of Civil and Political Rights (CPR) under the United Nations System and the African Charter;
- Selected CPR issues: torture, freedom of expression including press freedom, death penalty, elections, refugees and internally displaced people,
- freedom of association and assembly, property and land rights, labor and migrant workers;
- thematic Issues on CPR: HIV and AIDS, trade and international cooperation, democracy governance and corruption;
- CPR of special groups; women, children, minority and indigenous groups.
- the role of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in the promotion and protection of human rights;
Plan of Action.
Email: shoko@sahrit.org.zw
Tel: 263 4 33882 / 339819
Fax: 263 4 39818
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/WBIPROGRAMS/HNPLP/0,,
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?Institute for the Advancement of Journalism?- A course in Gender Sensitive Reporting.
20 - 21 August 2007
Durban, South Africa.
Facilitator: Kristen, Palitza
This course intends to raise awareness around the issue of gender stereotyping in the media and teach the participants about writing facts in a gender sensitive manner. It seeks to help reporters? mainstream gender in all aspects of reporting. The course content covers:
- understanding how gender stereotypes impact on the media;
- identifying and avoiding gender-blind reporting;
- planning and executing gender-aware interviews;
- writing well-balanced, diverse and gender-sensitive news stories;
- integrating gender consideration into all coverage;
- learning how gender impacts newsroom management
http://www.iaj.org.za/index.htm?main_category=4&view_course_id=330&show_detail=true&date=8-2007
15th Commonwealth Law Conference.
9-13TH September 2007
Nairobi, Kenya
Theme, ?Governance, Globalization and the Commonwealth?
This is the 15th Session of the Commonwealth Law Conference and will be held for the first time on the African Continent. A number of challenging issues faced by the Commonwealth Lawyers and their communities will be discussed and these include human rights, globalization, corruption, HIV/Aids just to mention a few. There will be five workshop streams and these include:
1. Constitutionalism, Human Rights, Governance and the Rule of the Law.
2. Corporate and Commercial Law.
3. The Legal Profession.
4. Law in a globalized economy
5. Contemporary Legal issues.
For more information visit:
www.commonwealthlaw2007.org
Email: administrator@commonwealthlaw2007.org OR Richard on gm@libertyafrica.com.
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