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Welcome
February 2012
Women’s Human Rights: Creating Global Solidarity Conference
9 December 2011
Thomond Park, Limerick
This conference promoted feminist movement building, women’s human rights and solidarity between women locally and globally.
It explored feminist activism and women’s demands for greater voice, presence and influence at local, national and international levels, on issues such as domestic violence, conflict and peace building and reproductive rights. At a time of economic crisis, funding cuts and lack of political will to fulfill women’s human rights, this conference aimed to inspire, mobilise, challenge and re-energise participants with a vision of global feminist solidarity.
For a full report on the Women’s Human Rights – Creating Global Solidarity Conference, please click
here.
Banúlacht
We are a feminist development education organisation.
Launch of Mná Sasa by Banúlacht and Kivulini Women’s Rights Organisation, during Banúlacht’s ExChange Visit to Mwanza, Tanzania, November 2010. (For more about the 2010 and previous ExChange
visits, click
here and
here. [February
and March 2011]).
Read Banúlacht’s
Strategic Plan 2011-2014 and
Feminist Principles document.
View a
slideshow about Banúlacht’s work.
We work through:
- Conferences, workshops and seminars on economic literacy, gender, development and human rights. Our most recent training course, From Local to Global: Grassroots Women Sustaining the Women’s Movement, was held in May/June 2010 in partnership with the National Collective of Community Based Women's Networks.
Mary Rusimbi of the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme with participants at the 2010 training course with the NCCWN.
To read about our most recent conference, Violence Against Women A Global
Crisis: Accountability—Activism—Action, which was organised in
partnership with the Clare and Limerick Women’s Networks, click
here. For more on our conferences, click here.
- Training and capacity building in the community development sector in Ireland. Courses include foundation level and more advanced courses in Gender and Development, Women's Human Rights as our popular economic literacy course, 'Looking at the Economy through Women's Eyes'.
- ExChange -
Exchange programmes with women's organisations in the global South.
Banúlacht has an ongoing exchange programme with the
Tanzania Gender Networking
Programme and Kivulini
Women’s Rights Organisation. Two exchange visits to Tanzania by women
from community development organisations in Ireland have been organized (2007
and 2008). A return visit by women from the Tanzanian organisations was held in
2009. A further exchange visit to Tanzania took place in November 2010. A radio documentary by Niamh Farren, one of the participants, called, 'Voices of Tanzania', based on the exchange, which can be heard here.
For reports and photos of the visit, see see
Banúlacht Gender and Development Bulletin 7 (February 2010),
Issue 5 (March 2009) and
Issue 3 (December 2007) or visit the Banúlacht Update.
- Research and policy work on development policy from a feminist perspective.
- Publication of briefing papers, newsletters, reports and training resources.
Banúlacht Economic
Literacy publication
Looking at the Economy through Women’s Eyes:
A facilitators’ guide for Economic Literacy
Based on Banúlacht’s experience of developing and delivering Economic Literacy Training, the facilitator’s guide is a compilation of resources and activities which have been tried and developed through interaction with these women. It begins with an introduction to Economic Literacy, which lays the foundation for Banúlacht’s approach.
“A powerful tool in that it will enable any learner to enter into the discourse of neo-liberalisation with confidence."
-- Aontas Adult Learner Journal
€25 plus postage and packing
(€2 within Ireland and €8 international.)
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Notices
NEW PUBLICATION
Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices and Visions
from India and Latin America (2011) by Christa Wichterich and Patricia Muńoz Cabrera.
This briefing paper is based on two earlier publications by WIDE (Women in
Development Europe): In Search of Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social
Justice: Voices from India and Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social
Justice: Voices and Visions from Latin America.
The paper highlights some of the alternative feminist development models to the
neo-liberal model which are being practised by women across Latin America and
India. To download it, click
here.
NEW REPORT FROM IRISH AID
Irish Aid have published their Annual Monitoring Report on Gender Equality 2010. The monitoring report, prepared by Irish Aid Gender Network, provides ‘an overview of key highlights, results and learning’ from 2010. It revisits the policy goals of the Irish Aid Gender Equality Policy, highlighting examples of gender equality work from various Partner countries and outlines priorities for 2011/12.
The report can be downloaded by clicking here.
Justice Still Out of Reach for Millions of Women, UN Women Says
Flagship report from the UN’s new organization for women recognizes progress, but calls on governments to take urgent action to end the injustices that keep women poorer and less powerful than men in every country in the world.
For the UN Women press release, click here. For the full report,
Progress of the World’s Women: In Pursuit of Justice, click here.
NEW REPORT
The Cost of Gender Equality vs. Losses in Monetary Terms and Human Fulfillment of Women and Girls with Gender Inequality.
To download the report, click
here.
WORLD'S WOMEN & GIRLS
Two new reports highlight the current situation of women and girls and the
barriers to the elimination of discrimination worldwide.
The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics highlights the differences in
the status of women and men in eight areas – population and families, health,
education, work, power and decision-making, violence against women, environment
and poverty. While progress towards gender equality has been made in some areas,
the report shows that much more needs to be done to close the gender gap in
critical areas such as power and decision-making and violence against women. To
read the full 284-page report, click
here.
World's Women & Girls 2011 Data Sheet has the latest data on a wide
variety of indicators on the socioeconomic status of women and girls in more
than 180 countries, with a focus on demography, reproductive health, education,
work, and public life. A special section on overcoming barriers to gender
equality is also featured. Click
here for the data sheet and other resources.
NEW GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN
Banúlacht Gender and Development Bulletin Issue 9 (Spring 2011) is now available. This issue features the Mná Sasa Manifesto, a new Banúlacht solidarity initiative. There are also reports by Irish and Tanzanian women involved in the Banúlacht Exchange November 2010. Finally, we report on UN Women, the new United Nations gender equality agency, and feature a position document by the African Feminist Forum. Click
here to download the Bulletin.
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