The Women’s Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights (WILD) used the United Nations Convention to End Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to advocate for human rights at the local level.  WILD seeks to improve the lives of women and girls through human rights education and advocacy, and works with ...

Tactic - Lrubenstein - 03/17/2010 - 11:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

... - comparing the impact of government spending on men and women, making sure that the government includes women in their budgeting process - an example from Nigeria can be found here ...

Blog entry - New Tactics - 03/11/2010 - 10:15 - 84 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

... is often used as a means to invade privacy, scapegoat women and sexual minorities, and violate freedom of religion under the pretext ... sanction—such as discriminatory practices against women, homophobia, persecution of religious minorities and restrictions on ...

Tactic - ahorwart - 03/09/2010 - 17:53 - 2 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

... have pleasant memories. Although we do not doubt that such women exist, we doubt whether we can find her – we might need to do that ... prisoners from Puerto Rico We met a group of native women from Maine with whom we are exploring a partnership involving healing ...

Blog entry - New Tactics - 03/09/2010 - 15:58 - 143 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

... mobilize youth to fight corruption. Egypt: Founded by women in 2005, Shayfeen.com (play on words meaning “we see you” in Arabic) ... input could be invaluable...   Democracy and women's participation Hello Alfred: Thanks for writing back and sharing ...

Blog entry - shaazka - 02/26/2010 - 15:14 - 9 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

... Sally-Jean Shackleton and Lebogang Marishane of Women'sNet , South Africa Dr. Dan McQuillan , blogs about open ... an Everyday Hero campaign in South Africa that asked women to nominate men that do not commit domestic violence.  Maisel wanted to ...

Blog entry - New Tactics - 03/08/2010 - 17:10 - 124 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

... community; he was making paintings on the condition of women in his community after some were victims of honor killings.  There was ... the neighborhood community of Karakoy.  As foreigner women, just the idea that we are now running a program in the midst of ...

Blog entry - New Tactics - 03/08/2010 - 17:07 - 140 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

... - IDPs) or even subgroups of refugees (for instance women: Gender Based Violence - GBV) and there were valid concerns that public ...

Blog entry - New Tactics - 03/08/2010 - 17:05 - 116 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

... Human Rights article, Gender in Transition: Common Sense, Women, and War (particularly pages 459-464, about the problems of safety in ... particular rights, including elections, child rights, women's rights, discrimination, hate crimes, etc. Search, intelligence ...

Blog entry - New Tactics - 03/08/2010 - 16:58 - 155 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

... of Amnesty International in defending human rights and women’s rights around the world. Many of us work closely with Amnesty ... do not barter away the human rights of minorities and of women for ‘peace’. There are enough recent examples of such attempts which ...

Blog entry - Harsh - 03/06/2010 - 04:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups