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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
for countries for which such data wasavailable through 2009. The resourceis currently available at the VirtualKnowledge Centre and is available inArabic, English, French, and Spanish.United Nations Women’s Watchand the Inter-Agency Network onWomen and Gender EqualityFact Sheet: Women with Disabilieswww.un.org/womenwatch/enableThis WomenWatch special feature ison women with disabilies. It serves asa portal to resources and the work ofthe UN in this area. Informaon on theConvenon on the Rights of Persons withDisabilies (2006) is presented, includinga secon with links to informaonrelated to the Convenon’s arcle onwomen with disabilies. The factsheetprovides informaon about girls andwomen with disabilies in the followingareas: educaon, employment andpaid work, health and housing. Thesources for this factsheet are variousUN divisions and the World Bank.There is also a “Citaons” secon withBook Reviewexcerpts from the Beijing Plaorm forAcon, the World Programme of Aconconcerning Disabled Persons and otherdocuments. It encompasses informaonsuch as sgmas associated with disabilityand gender inequality as well as acall for acon to ensure that womenwith disabilies enjoy all human rightsand inclusion in development. Linksto a selecon of UN publicaons anddocuments and resources on other UNwebsites are provided. WomenWatchis the United Naons system’s centralgateway to gender equality and women’sempowerment informaon andresources.Women’s Initiatives for GenderJusticeLegal Eye On The ICCnyurl.com/3pr45ytThe Legal Eye on the ICC is an onlinenewsleer which contains summariesand gender analysis of judicial decisionsand other legal developments at theInternaonal Criminal Court (ICC),and discussion of legal issues arisingfrom vicms’ parcipaon beforethe Court, parcularly as these issuesrelate to the prosecuon of genderbasedcrimes in each of the situaonsunder invesgaon by the ICC. TheCourt currently has six situaons underinvesgaon: Uganda, the DemocracRepublic of the Congo, Darfur, Sudan,the Central African Republic, Kenya andLibya. Available in French and English.Women’s Voiceswww.iccwomen.orgWomen’s Voices is a regular e-leerwhich provides updates and analysison polical developments, the pursuitof jusce and accountability, theparcipaon of women in peace talksand reconciliaon efforts from theperspecve of women’s rights acvistswithin armed conflict situaons,specifically those countries underinvesgaon by the InternaonalCriminal Court (ICC) including Uganda,the Democrac Republic of Congo,Darfur, the Central African Republic,Kenya and Libya. In English/French.Contesng Archives: Finding Women in the Sources, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry. 2010,223 pages. University of Illinois Press, IL. Reviewed by Jason Black, Doctoral Student, History, Michigan State University.Contesng Archives: Finding Women in the Sources contains a wealth of informaon and covers a wide range of specificsubjects while maintaining the goal outlined in the tle of finding women in historical sources. The principle argument of thebook holds that archives are not neutral sources, but are collected with specific goals in mind, by specific people, and tend tobe created by men collecng sources that primarily deal with men. This does not mean that finding women in the archives isimpossible, only that it requires a fair amount of work.The twelve essays within are split up into three secons. The first, “Locang Women in Official Documents,” contains fouressays which focus their aenon on official archival sources and how to read them in such a way as to find women andfemale agency in collecons that were not collected with these goals in mind. Mary Elizabeth Perry explores the life of Fama,a slave in early modern Spain. Fama appears in a single Inquisitorial record, aer she challenged a local priest’s claim thatshe had converted from Islam to Chrisanity while being treated for the plague. Daniel S. Haworth introduces us to MaríaPetra Fernández, a nineteen-year-old orphan living in nineteenth-century Mexico. Fernández appears in an 1854 case file,aempng to have herself declared an adult so that she could be free to marry the man of her choice, and not one chosen byher foster father. Julia Clancy-Smith explores the lives of migrant women in nineteenth-century Tunis through the tesmoniesof Giovanna Tellini, who was prosecuted for grand larceny and contraband. Finally, Kali Nicole Gross invesgates interseconof race, crime and gender in an early tweneth century racially integrated neighborhood in Philadelphia, through the trial ofHenriea Cooper, charged with killing her newborn child.Each of these essays centers around legal documentaon of some kind. In three of the four essays the women in quesonwere the subject of criminal proceedings; only Fernández iniated legal proceedings of her own volion. Legality aside, whatthese essays also have in common is that they locate evidence of female agency within the archives, illustrang some of the26
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