MEMBER PUBLICATIONS

Centre for Rights Education & Awareness (CREAW): "The Sexual Offences Act 2006." This is a simplified version that was put together by CREAW and other stakeholders to be used as a sensitization tool for awareness creation amongst various constituents such as the Police, local administration, Judiciary and the general public. View the document here or see it at its permanent location [member publications/reports]

Centre for Rights Education & Awareness (CREAW): "Bride Price- Is it Modern Day Slavery?" This report points to the practice of bride price being commercialized in different societies thus reducing the woman to the status of a chattel for bargain. The report calls for deep reflection on the institution of bride price whilst also seeking a radical reform of the same to protect the women’s human rights. View the document here or see it at its permanent location [member publications/reports]

Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA): "National Study on the Situation of Women Prisoners, 2008." The report presents the situation of women prisoners in Ethiopia from a legal, sociological, and psychological and gender points of view and provides recommendations in respect of these factors. The report examines the threat of married women with longer sentences facing a difficult life after their sentences with no home, no property, no social capital and no respect and recognition. View the document here or see it at its permanent location [member publications/reports]

Equality Now: "SOAWR Campaign Update". A quarterly update on campaigns towards popularization, ratification, domestication and implementation of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. It reports on work done during January to March 2008 and includes information on the status of ratification and upcoming events that could offer opportunities for further action towards the objectives of the campaign. View the updates here or see them at their permanent location [member publications/advocacy]

Liverpool VCT: 'Trainer’s Manual for Rape Trauma Counselors in Kenya 2007", Ministry of Health Kenya with support from Liverpool VCT and UNFPA. The manual sets standards for delivering counseling services to the survivors of sexual violence. View the document here and the annexes here or see it at its permanent location [member publications/reports]

Oxfam GB Uganda: "A brief update of Oxfam GB Uganda’s activities within the Domestic violence program from January to March 2008." View the document here or see it at its permanent location [member publications/reports]

NON-MEMBER PUBLICATIONS

Poverty and well being Platform (This platform is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and operated by Intercooperation and Overseas Development Cooperation): "Understanding and Operationalzing Empowerment", Cecilia Luttrell and Sitina Quiroz with Claire Scrutton and Kate Bird October 2007. The paper presents an overview of the different definitions of and conceptual approaches to empowerment and explores different dimensions of power. View the paper here or see it at its permanent location [non-member publications/reports]

JASS’ Feminist Movement-Building Initiative: "Imagining and Building Africa Women’s Movements" November 2007. Report of the JASS Movement-building institute held from November 19 – 22 2007 with OSISA and Action Aid. View document here or see it at its permanent location [non-member publications/reports]

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Info Report "Tools for Behavior Change Communication" January 2008. This report provides tools that are meant to help in planning and developing a behavior change communication (BCC) program. GBV Prevention practitioners may adapt some of these tools for their own programs. View document here or see it at its permanent location [non-member publications/reports]

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: "Project on a Mechanism to Address Laws that Discriminate Against Women" Dr. Fareda Banda, March 2008. This report summarizes a project that aimed to examine the advisability of creating a new mechanism to address laws that discriminate against women. View document here or see it at its permanent location [non-member publications/reports]

United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF, Protecting the Vulnerable Unit (Uganda): "GBV Prevention and Response Programs, Facilitators Manual"; a training manual for gender-based violence prevention. View document here or see it at its permanent location [non-member publications/reports]

United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF Protecting the Vulnerable Unit (Uganda): "Working with Survivors of GBV, Facilitators Manual"; a training manual for NGO program staff hat are working with survivors of GBV in Sub-Saharan Africa. View document here or see it at its permanent location [non-member publications/reports]