Fall 2011 Bulletin Vol. 27, Number 1 (PDF) - Center for Gender in ...

key campaigns against business-relatedabuse; and a “Tools & Strategy Forum”with resources and advocacy strategiesto help advocates prevent and seekjusce for business-related abuses.B-HRD’s In Focus secon highlightsseveral campaigns against businessrelatedabuse from around the world.B-HRD was designed to complementexisng online resources, such as theBusiness and Human Rights ResourceCentre, and was jointly developed byInternaonal Network for Economic,Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net;www.escr-net.org) and the Centerfor Human Rights and Global Jusce(CHRGJ; www.chrgj.org) as well as theInternaonal Human Rights Clinic at NYUSchool of Law.Gender ActionFactsheet on Internaonal FinancialInstuons and Sexual andReproducve Rightsnyurl.com/3zqwyrjGender Acon research shows thatalthough sexual and reproducvehealth (SRH) rights are promoted byinternaonal financial instuons’policies, they are rarely acknowledgedor fulfilled through investments. Thisdocument explores how ideologicalassaults on SRH investments underminethe World Bank’s SRH and genderpolicies. Examples of the AfricanDevelopment Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank projectfunding shoralls are also provided.2011 United Naons data on women andreproducve rights around the world arebriefly outlined. Recommended aconsare given in the “What Can Civil SocietyDo?” secon. At the end, there areaddional SRH resources suggesons.Mother Pelican: Journal ofSustainable Human Developmentwww.pelicanweb.org/#infoarchiveThe April 2011 issue of this onlinejournal focused on gender equality andhuman development. The May 2011issue focused on gender equity andenergy policy. Two leaps forward areneeded to aain the transion fromconsumerism to sustainability: a leapfrom sexism to gender equality, and aleap from fossil fuels to clean energy.This issue addresses the genderedimplicaons of the transion from fossilfuels to clean energy. It is argued thatboth issues are ghtly coupled, and thatjointly pushing for both gender equalityand clean energy is the best globalstrategy at this point in human history.This issue also includes two addionalsupplements:*Status of Gender Equality in Society(Supplement)nyurl.com/3jhn2deThis online supplement is a digestof recent events and significantcontribuons to fostering genderequality—and human development—invarious secular cultures and instuons.Editors have compiled informaon onthe following topics: Current Statusof the World’s Women and Girls; ACentenary of Celebraons?; Egypt’sRevoluon Through the Eyes of FiveWomen; Women as Key Players inClimate Adaptaon; UN Women andthe WomenWatch Web Site; Gender,Humiliaon, and Global Security;Plight of Japanese Astronaut and herFamily; Rising Tide: Gender Equality andCultural Change around the World; andGender Equality Video by the EuropeanCommission.*Status of Gender Equality in Religion(Supplement)www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n05supp5.htmlThis supplement is a digest of recentevents and significant contribuons tofostering gender equality—and humandevelopment—in various religioustradions and instuons. With so muchgoing on, the selected items are theeditor’s choice.The National Academieswww.nap.eduStarng on June 2, 2011, all PDF versionsof books published by the NaonalAcademies Press will be downloadableto anyone free of charge. This includesa current catalog of more than 4,000books plus future reports produced bythe Press. Before today’s announcement,all PDFs were free to download inONLINE RESOURCESdeveloping countries, and 65 percent ofthem were available for free to any user.Violence is Not our Culture (VNC)Strategising Online Acvism: A Toolkitnyurl.com/3bdygpyA new resource from Violence is Notour Culture (VNC), this toolkit wasinspired by the workshops held in Asiaand Africa. While this toolkit has beendesigned primarily for the local partnersand acvists of the VNC campaign,this can be a resource, too, for humanrights acvists who are keen to developtheir online acvism and want to knowwhere and how to start. The toolkitincluded informaon on why andhow informaon and communicaontechnologies (ICTs) can be used bywomen’s rights and human rights groupsin their advocacy skills; maximizingthe efficiency of online tools, includingnetworking and mobile tools foradvocacy and campaigning; developingan advocacy and/or communicaonstrategy; using social networking;and understanding online privacy andsecurity issues relevant to buildingonline acvism. The toolkit is availablefor free download and distribuon.UNIFEMInvesng In Gender Equality: EndingViolence Against Women And Girlswww.endvawnow.orgThis publicaon presents importantdata analysis and graphs from variouscountries of the world showing howgender equality and violence againstwomen are correlated. Countries withgreater progress on gender equality,girls’ secondary educaon, and women’sreproducve health and rights (includingmaternal mortality) have lower levelsof violence against women. The toolhighlights how advancements ingender equality and reducing violenceagainst women and girls is a “smart”investment which is central to women’sempowerment with high pay-offs forpoverty reducon and developmentoverall. The rigorous stascalanalysis is based on the leading globalgender equality indices and violenceagainst women prevalence surveys,25