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NOTICE
March 2010
Beijing+15 Review
Beijing+15 statement by the
Clare Women’s Network
The Beijing+15 review is currently being held by the UN in New York. See the
Banúlacht Update for more on this.Click
here for the
Beijing+15 Statement by feminist NGOs.
Welcome
December 2009
Banúlacht
We are a feminist development education organisation.
We work through:
- Conferences, workshops and seminars on gender, development and human
rights. Our next conference, Violence Against Women: A Global Crisis:
Accountability—Activism—Action, will be held at Thomond Park, Limerick
on Thursday, 26th November 2009. The conference is co-organised by
Banúlacht, the Clare Women’s Network and the Limerick Women’s Network for
the 16 Days of Activism. For more information, click here.
For details of our last event, the Banúlacht-NWCI International Women’s
Day Conference, 'Inspiring Women: Challenging Voices, Changing Times', which was held
on Thursday, March 5th, 2009, click
here.
- Training and capacity building in the community development sector in Ireland.
Courses include 'Women's Human Rights' and 'Looking at the Economy through Women's Eyes'.
- Exchanges 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 is planned for 2009. 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 the Gender and Development Bulletins from
December 2007 and
March 2009, 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.)
>> Click here for more details <<
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Notices
NEW GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN AVAILABLE
The February 2010 issue of the Gender & Development Bulletin is now available. The theme is Mobilising Women for Human Rights Locally and Globally. The issue features articles on Banúlacht's ExChange Programme 2009 and on the new UN gender equality entity.
To download it, click
here.
TAKE ACTION
Petition the President of the UN General Assembly to prioritize the establishment of
a new UN women’s agency so that it becomes fully operational in 2010, the 15th anniversary year of the Beijing World Conference on Women. For more information, visit this webpage.
To read Banúlacht’s lobby letter to the Department of Foreign Affairs, click
here.
WIDE CEDAW NEWSLETTER
To mark the 30th anniversary of the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW),
WIDE has produced a special issue of it's newsletter. Click
here to download it.
NEW BOOK ON WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age by
Niamh Reilly is a new publication that explores the emergence of transnational,
UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for women's human rights and traces the
evolution of the women's human rights movement through an examination of
its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international
law and policy arenas. Click
here for more information.
16 DAYS CAMPAIGN BROADCASTS
Community radio state near90fm is broadcasting a testimonial everyday at noon for the sixteen days of the campaign. To listen to the broadcasts, click
here.
UNIFEM: GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has launched the global advocacy initiative
Say NO – UNiTE to End
Violence against Women, which will stimulate, count and showcase actions on
ending violence against women.
30th ANNIVERSARY OF CEDAW
18 December 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). A working group of the United Nations’ Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE)
has launched a special anniversary
website.
NEW PUBLICATION
Keeping Gender on the Agenda: Gender Based Violence, Poverty and Development,
by Nata Duvvury, a paper prepared on behalf of the Joint Consortium on Gender Based Violence.
Economic Rights of Women Are Human Rights
KARAT, a regional coalition of organizations and individuals that works to
ensure gender equality in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of
Independent States, has made a short film on economic rights of women as a human
right. Click
here to
view it. For more information, write to Ewa from KARAT at: Ewa.Pintera[at]karat.org.pl.
A Video of the 2009 International Women’s Day Conference is Now Available
Click
here to see it.
New Briefing Paper from Dóchas
Dóchas, the Irish Association of Non-governmental Development Organisations, has
released Gender: Empowering Women for Development (click
here to download a
PDF version). This is part of a series of 'Making Poverty History Together' briefing papers about the challenges of eradicating global poverty, inequality and injustice which have been produced by Dóchas. To see the complete series, click
here.
Manual Highlighting the Security Needs of Women Human Rights Defenders Now
Available
Insiste, Persiste, Resiste, Existe: Women Human Rights Defenders' Security Strategies
by Jane Barry and Vahida Nainar is a manual of protection strategies to address the specific security needs of women human rights defenders. Violence against women human rights defenders is infrequently acknowledged for what it is: a component of deliberate calculated strategies to silence them and to stop them from conducting their daily work to change society, save lives and claim justice.
A flyer about
Insiste, Persiste, Resiste, Existe is available
here. The full
publication is available free for download at the
Urgent Action Fund
website.
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