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W o m e n

Why a special section for and about women? Because:
>>Despite all the legal and social advances for the rights and treatment of women in the United States and around the world - much remains to be done.
>>Despite significant changes to the way women are treated in the workplace and community, women are still discriminated against, abused, and, while earning less for equal work - still carrying more than their share of the responsibility of raising children and running households
>>Worldwide women still lack the right to determine their own future, own property and vote
>>Worldwide woman are still burned, stoned and murdered for acts that men are not so punished for or for acts outside a woman's control
>>World wide young girls and women are still sold into slavery for the amusement of and service to men
Women's "history" remains untold in our schools, colleges and universities as part of the mainstream curriculum - "a matter of course"
>>We celebrate women's talents, achievements and victories!

News About Women Around the World

March 23, 2007: Senegal makes progress against female genital excision
Senegal has made significant progress toward ending the deep-rooted and brutal ritual of cutting girls' genitals, a practice the United Nations for decades has regarded as a severe human rights violation. But the tradition is still widespread in many African and Middle Eastern countries, with UNICEF estimating that up to 3 million girls each year are forced to have their genitals mutilated.
cite: By Robyn Dixon, Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times

March 22, 2007: Women at risk in Liberia
A new United Nations human rights report on Liberia says that violence against women persists in the country.
cite: by Jessica Valenti

Covering the period between August and October 2006, the report pays particular attention to the fact that the Rape Amendment Act is not yet adequately implemented by the national authorities charged with the investigation, prosecution and trial of suspects, despite clear legislative provisions.

The report says that "the very small number of cases indicted and tried to date is an indicator that far more needs to be done to ensure that the various institutions of justice coordinate to address rape as a crime and as a human rights violation."

The report also notes that women and girls in some areas of Liberia remain at risk of female genital mutilation.

March 15, 2007: Ivorian women 'forgotten victims'
Sexual violence against women in Ivory Coast's conflict has been ignored, says Amnesty International in a new report. Hundreds and maybe thousands of women have been raped, assaulted or forced into sexual slavery, it says.
cite: news.bbc.co.uk

Fighters from all sides have used sexual violence as part of a deliberate strategy to instil terror in and to humiliate the population, Amnesty says. A peace deal signed this month aims to unite the country split in two since rebels seized the north in 2002.

"Many of the women have HIV, and others have been affected mentally and psychologically," rape victim Monique Kobri told the BBC, who says she was infected with HIV by her rapists. They don't have the money and no-one supports them to give them the care they need. I say that we are not in a country of justice," she said. cite: news.bbc.co.uk

March 7, 2007: UN Human Rights Commissioner voices concern over arrest of Iranian women
After over 30 women's rights activists were arrested in Tehran, High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour expressed concern about their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression. Arbour further urged authorities in Iran to adhere to the international agreements they are party to, specially the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
cite: undispatch.com

Iran is party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Covenant on Economic, Civil and Cultural Rights, and the International Convention on the Rights of the Child. Iran has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

March 5, 2007: Amnesty International Says Arrests of Iranian Women may be an Attempt to Prevent International Women's Day Calls for Equality
Amnesty International called for the immediate and unconditional release of over 30 women activists who were arrested on Sunday, March 4, while staging a peaceful demonstration in Tehran. The organization believes the arrests may be intended to deter activists from organizing events to mark International Women's Day on March 8 [2007].

The women were arrested outside Tehran's Revolutionary Court, where they had gathered to protest at the trial of five women charged in connection with a demonstration held on June 12, 2006 to demand that women be given equal rights with men under the law in Iran. The June demonstration was violently dispersed by security forces, who arrested at least 70 people.
cite: prnewswire.com

26 February 2007: Ending Violence Against Women
10 Country Study shows that community-based interventions can halt violence against women
Rape in Mauritania, domestic violence in Mexico and Romania, child marriage in Bangladesh, and female genital mutilation or cutting in Kenya are just a few of the abuses explored in "Programming to Address Violence Against Women (pdf)," which offers 10 case studies that show how carefully targeted and planned interventions can actually reduce gender-based violence, the agency said. (Also online at unfpa.org/endingviolence/.

"Communities can and will change, but the dire consequences associated with gender-based violence constitute a human emergency that requires global and local action," said UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid. "We need to treat it as such." cite: americansforunfpa.org

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