MEMBER PUBLICATIONS

Center for Rights, Education and Awareness (CREAW): A research report which informs the levels and sources of awareness on sexuality and sexuality-related rights among the youth while also assessing the nature and extent of sexuality-related rights’ violations and the prevailing perceptions, attitudes and practices in regard to sexuality and sexuality-related rights. Read article here or see it in its permanent location: member publications/reports.

Coalition on Violence Against Women – Kenya: Rapid Assessment of the Situation of Women and Girls in IDP Camps in Western Kenya, February 2008. The report provides summarized information randomly collected from the press on the suffering of women during the post election violence and crisis in IDP camps but also in slum and other marginal areas. View report here or see it in its permanent location: member publications/reports.

Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA): ‘The Challenges of Protecting the Human Rights of Women House-workers in Ethiopia’ by Gelila Dereje, May 2007. This report explores the legal mechanisms in place for the protection of domestic workers and the human rights abuse faced by female domestic workers including sexual violence, denial of food and other forms of abuse. View document here or see it in its permanent location: member publications/reports.

Kivulini Women’s Rights Organization: Two briefs from Yassin Ally the Advocacy Officer detailing the abuse of two girls: an eleven year old girl a 15 year old girl at the hands of her father-in-law. The briefs also provide action taken by Kivulini. Read first brief here and second brief here or see them in their permanent location: member publications/advocacy & media.

Mifumi Project Uganda: Press release providing updates on Mifumi’s bride price petition to the constitutional court of Uganda. Mifumi has for six year’s now been campaigning for the reform of bride price in Eastern Uganda because it fuels violence against women. View the press release here or see it at its permanent location member: member publications/advocacy & media.

Nihambe Trust: Ubuntu News, April 2008. Updates from Nihambe on their capacity building workshops on theatre for development on violence against women in Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa. View document here or see it in its permanent location: member publications/reports.

Southern Africa Media and Gender Institute (SAMGI): Making Waves Newsletter, the latest edition of SAMGI’s newsletter with updates of their activities, analysis of gender issues in Southern Africa and GBV Network Prevention updates. View newsletter here or see it at its permanent location:member publications/reports

NON-MEMBER PUBLICATIONS

Center for Women’s Global Leadership: Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (2006), Cynthia Rothschild, Mary Anne Reilly and Sara A. Nordstrom. This report focuses on the points of intersection in the social, political and public health crises of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. The report uses a human rights lens to focus on critical political challenges and on innovative strategies used by activists worldwide as they respond to the links between violence and HIV/AIDS, including the GBV Prevention Network. View report here or see it at its permanent location: non-member publications/reports

Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights ECWR: Press Release and Petition of the ECWR’s Campaign Against Sexual Harassment: Making our Street Safer for Everyone, which began in 2005 in response to complaints from Egyptian and foreign women exposed to sexual harassment in Egypt’s streets. The press release provides updates on the million signatures campaign against complaints by women of sexual harassment on the streets. View document here or see it in its permanent location non-member publications/reports. And sign the petition online here.

Family Violence Prevention Fund: Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence. An online tool-kit for use by practitioners working with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence. The tool-kit provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and other resources as well as community-building tools. View tool-kit here or see it in its permanent location: non-member publications/program tools.

Harvard School of Public Health, Program on International health and Human Rights: HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence Literature Review, August 2006. This report provides a review of publications addressing the intersection between gender-based violence and HIV. It contains a review of key studies and academic reports. View the document here or see it at its permanent location: non-member publications/reports.

United Nations Development Fund for Women UNIFEM: Report to the fifty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women and the seventh session of the Human Rights Council. The report documents the activities undertaken by UNIFEM in 2007 as administrator of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women, as well as its programming on violence against women. View the document here or see it at its permanent location non-member publications/reports.

LINKS

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: CD Rom on 25 years of the work of Discrimination against Women. This is a compilation of 25 years of work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in States parties between 1983 and 2007. View contents of CD Rom here: www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/cdrom_cedaw/EN/files/cedaw25years/start.html