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Non-Banúlacht
Publications
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.
Governing Women: Women's Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform
Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume, edited by Anne Marie Goetz, and published by UNRISD, consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women's interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women.
For more details, click
here.
New Aid Reports
Two new reports have been published highlighting the ways in which new aid systems promote, marginalise or exclude gender equality and women’s rights issues. The reports reflects the voices of organisations working for gender equality and women’s rights from around the world.
Primer #5: Aid Effectiveness and Women's Rights Series - Making Women's Rights and Gender Equality a Priority in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda is a joint publication by WIDE (Women in Development Europe) and
AWID (Association of Women's
Rights in Development).
Women’s Rights & Gender Equality, the New Aid Environment and Civil Society
Organisations is published by the Gender
and Development Network.
Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders
This guide aims to help women human rights defenders name the specific risks, violations and constraints they face in their work. It presents a practical discussion of the useful mechanisms developed by the state and also by civil society to provide redress and remedy and to protect women human rights defenders. It is intended to be used by human rights and other organisations to further a gender perspective in the monitoring and documentation of human rights.
The guidebook was produced by the Asia Pacific Forum for Women, Law and Development (APWLD) in close collaboration with individuals and organisations that have participated in the international campaign for women human rights defenders since 2005. Printed copies are for sale at $25 including postage. For orders or to download, go
here.
The Circle of Empowerment: Twenty-five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
This book of essays and personal reflections written by 42 former and current members of CEDAW's Committee and 5 UN staff members reveals the profound impact this Convention has had on women's lives around the world. With examples and moving reminiscences from Korea to Egypt, from Russia to the Caribbean and beyond, this collection addresses CEDAW's effect on women in the contexts of personal status laws, labour markets, migration, human trafficking, politics, as well as the obstacles created by cultural stereotypes. The book is edited by two current members of the CEDAW Committee: Hanna Beate Schöpp- Schilling and Cees Flinterman. Contact: Jeanette Petras at
JPetras@gc.cuny.edu
2007 Trócaire Development Review: Gender Inequality and Development
Download an article by Maeve Taylor of Banúlacht on Gender and the White Paper
here or read the complete issue
here.
AWID Publication
Achieving Women's Economic and Social Rights: Strategies and Lessons from Experience is a new report from the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) provides insights from feminist activists working in diverse settings all over the world on the strategies they have found most useful in their efforts to improve economic and social rights for women. It includes case studies and examples, strategies for success and lessons from experience in translating "rights on paper" to ensuring their concrete implementation in women's lives.
For more information and to download the report, go
here.
Beijing Plus 10: An Ambivalent Record on Gender Justice
The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women (the “Beijing Conference”) was a landmark in policy terms, setting a global policy framework to advance gender equality. This paper, drawing on research undertaken for the UNRISD report,
Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World, reflects on the ambivalent record of progress achieved by women over the last decades and considers how the policy environment has changed over the period since the high point of the global women’s movements.
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