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Stop Violence against Women Website

The Violence against Women Monitor

A publication of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

October 2007 | |

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|STOPVAW Website News |International and Regional News | |New Research |

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|CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Regional |UN Officials Encourage Treaty |[pic] Afghanistan |Report Released on Effective |

|Conference on Legal Reform on Domestic |Implementation as General Assembly | |Implementation of Protection of Women |

|Violence |Session Opens | |against Violence |

|New Section: Global Gender Issues |16 Days of Activism Against Gender |[pic] Armenia |Council of Europe Releases Updated Report|

| |Violence Campaign 2007 | |on Legislation Combating Violence against|

| | | |Women in the Member States |

|New Section: UN Human Rights Council |World Health Organization Recommends that|[pic] Azerbaijan |European Parliament Women's Rights |

| |Countries Scale Up Violence Prevention | |Report: Discrimination against Roma Women|

|Updated Section: Sexual Harassment |Director of UNICEF Calls for Community |[pic] Cambodia |Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: |

|International Legal Framework |Approaches to Stop Gender-Based Violence | |A Training Manual |

| |European Commission Prioritizes Gender |[pic] Democratic Republic of Congo |Study of Assessment Tools for Survivors |

| |Equality in Development Aid | |of Sexual Violence |

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| |NGOs in the Former Yugoslav Republics |[pic] Egypt |New Handbook on Prevention of Child |

| |Focus on Educating Youth to Change | |Trafficking |

| |Post-War Culture of Violence | | |

| | |[pic] Israel |Global Fund for Women's Fundraising |

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| | |[pic] Jordan |New Report on Indigenous Women and the |

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| | |[pic] Kazakhstan |Homelessness and Domestic Violence in |

| | | |Europe: A Problem with Documentation |

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| | |[pic] Kyrgyzstan |COHRE Report on the Impact of Inheritance|

| | | |Law on Women in the Middle East and North|

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National VAW Monitors who contributed to this month’s newsletter include: Armenia and Azerbaijan

|STOPVAW Website News |

|CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Regional Conference on Legal Reform on Domestic Violence |

|The Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation and Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, with the support of the Oak Foundation and the |

|Open Society Institute’s Human Rights and Governance Program, are pleased to announce that the Regional Conference on Legal Reform |

|on Domestic Violence will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on February 12 – 14, 2008. Applicants must be from one of the following |

|countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Romania, Macedonia, Hungary, Poland, |

|Slovakia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ukraine, Turkey, Russia, Greece, Montenegro, Latvia, Lithuania, |

|Estonia and Cyprus. (More information) |

|New Section: Global Gender Issues |

|A new section addressing global gender issues has been added to StopVAW. This section will feature various topics that constitute,|

|lead to, or are consequences of violence against women. The first topic, Forced and Early Marriage, has been added. More global |

|gender issues will be added soon. (More information) |

|New Section: UN Human Rights Council |

|A new section on the UN Human Rights Council has been added to StopVAW. (More information) |

|Updated Section: Sexual Harassment International Legal Framework |

|As of 14 September 2007, the Sexual Harassment International Legal Framework section has been updated. (More information) |

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|International and Regional News |

|UN Officials Encourage Treaty Implementation as General Assembly Session Opens |

|During the opening of the General Assembly session, countries traditionally promise to sign on to more treaties as part of the UN's|

|annual campaign to support its conventions. This year, however, UN officials are saying that signing on is not enough; Member |

|States need to improve domestic implementation. (More information) |

|16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence Campaign 2007 |

|Since 1991, the 16 Days Campaign has helped to raise awareness about gender violence and has highlighted its effects on women |

|globally. Each year, thousands of activists from all over the world utilize the campaign to further their work to end violence |

|against women. The Center for Women’s Global Leadership has now released the campaign’s toolkit. (More information) |

|World Health Organization Recommends that Countries Scale Up Violence Prevention |

|In its 2007 Third Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention report, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes |

|the strides that have been made since the 2002 creation of the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, but also calls on countries|

|around the world to step up violence prevention. (More information) |

|Director of UNICEF Calls for Community Approaches to Stop Gender-Based Violence |

|UNICEF's Executive Director Ann M. Veneman has called for community-based approaches to stop female genital cutting, “honor |

|crimes”, forced marriages, and other crimes which subjugate women and girls. (More information) |

|European Commission Prioritizes Gender Equality in Development Aid |

|In a recent communication to the European Parliament and Council, the European Commission put forward the issue of gender equality |

|as one of five main goals in European development cooperation. (More information) |

|NGOs in the Former Yugoslav Republics Focus on Educating Youth to Change Post-War Culture of Violence |

|Several local NGOs in the former Yugoslav republics are pursuing programs aimed at changing a post-war culture of violence through |

|educating young people about gender-based violence. (More information) |

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|National News |

|[pic] Afghanistan |

|Female Parliament Members in Afghanistan Protest Denial of Women's Rights (More information) |

|Issues Surround Divorce for Afghani Women (More information) |

|[pic] Armenia |

|Extract from Counter-Human Trafficking Institutional Assessment Report (More information) |

|Extract from "Domestic Violence and Abuse of Women in Armenia" (More information) |

|[pic] Azerbaijan |

|UNDP Releases Report on Gender Situation in Azerbaijan (More information) |

|[pic] Cambodia |

|Cambodia Passes Anti-Trafficking Bill (More information) |

|[pic] Democratic Republic of Congo |

|Sexual Violence in DRC Continues to Increase (More information) |

|[pic] Egypt |

|Opposition to Female Circumcision Grows in Egypt (More information) |

|[pic] Israel |

|Shelter Tries to Rehabilitate Victims of Human Trafficking (More information) |

|[pic] Jordan |

|Project Launched to Fight Violence against Women in Jordan (More information) |

|[pic] Kazakhstan |

|Kazakh President Appoints New Human Rights Ombudsman (More information) |

|Kazakh Police Launch Crackdown on Human Trafficking (More information) |

|[pic] Kyrgyzstan |

|Despite Policy Reforms, Harassment of Female Human Rights Activists Occurring in Kyrgyzstan (More information) |

|[pic] Lithuania |

|Sexual Harassment Claim Proven for the First Time in Lithuania (More information) |

|[pic] Sierra Leone |

|Call for Reparations for Victims of Sexual Violence in Sierra Leone (More information) |

|[pic] Ukraine |

|Roundtable Discussion about Sex Discrimination in Ukraine (More information) |

|[pic] USA |

|Religious Sect Leader Convicted as Accomplice to Rape for Arranging Child Marriage (More information) |

|US State Laws Increase Protection and Rights for Victims of Domestic Violence (More information) |

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|New Research and Reports |

|Report Released on Effective Implementation of Protection of Women against Violence |

|In June 2007, the Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men (CDEG) released a report on the effective implementation of|

|the Council of Europe's recommendations on protection for women against violence in member states. The study compares both the |

|"programmatic" (on paper) and "practical" (on the ground) implementations of the Council's recommendations to point out overall |

|tendencies and effective strategies. (More information) |

|Council of Europe Releases Updated Report on Legislation Combating Violence against Women in the Member States |

|In January 2007, the Council of Europe released an updated report on laws and legislation regarding violence against women in 46 |

|member states. This report includes changes and updated information on 40 of the 46 member states since the last published report |

|on violence against women legislation in 2006. (More information) |

|European Parliament Women's Rights Report: Discrimination against Roma Women |

|Roma women are among the most threatened groups and individuals in the Europe - particularly in the ten new Member States and |

|candidate countries, according to the Women's Rights Committee. In a report adopted on Tuesday, the committee calls for measures |

|to combat the extreme levels of multiple discrimination faced by these women on the grounds of both ethnicity and gender. (More |

|information) |

|Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: A Training Manual |

|UNFPA and UNIFEM's “Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: A Training Manual” is now available online. The manual is meant to |

|build a greater understanding of gender responsive budgeting in order to promote “gender equity, accountability to women’s rights |

|and efficiency and transparency in budget policies and processes.” (More information) |

|Study of Assessment Tools for Survivors of Sexual Violence |

|The Sexual Violence Research Initiative has researched assessment tools for victims of sexual violence in a compilation and |

|evaluation titled “Assessment Instruments Used to Study Healthcare-Based Interventions for Women Who Have Experienced Sexual |

|Violence.” (More information) |

|New Handbook on Prevention of Child Trafficking |

|In response to the lack of information on prevention of trafficking, Terre des Hommes has published “A Handbook on Planning |

|Projects to Prevent Child Trafficking”. (More information) |

|Global Fund for Women's Fundraising Handbook |

|This handbook, written by Global Fund staff, explores key ideas about raising money to fund women's rights work. It is especially |

|designed for first-time fundraisers and for women's groups in developing countries. (More information) |

|New Report on Indigenous Women and the United Nations System |

|This report has been compiled by the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for the Task Force on Indigenous |

|Women/Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality. (More information) |

|Homelessness and Domestic Violence in Europe: A Problem with Documentation |

|The European Observatory of Homelessness has published a report that examines the approaches to data collection on homelessness and|

|the measurement issues involved in each EU country. The report aims to improve the capacity of authorities to comprehensively and |

|consistently address homelessness. (More information) |

|COHRE Report on the Impact of Inheritance Law on Women in the Middle East and North Africa |

|The report examines inheritance law and its impact on women in the Middle East and North Africa region. (More information) |

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|The VAW Monitor is a free, monthly newsletter sent out on the first of each month. Printable versions of The VAW Monitor are also |

|available on the website at . |

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|About STOPVAW |

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|The Stop Violence Against Women website (STOPVAW) is a forum for information, advocacy and change.  Minnesota Advocates for Human |

|Rights developed this website as a tool for the promotion of women's human rights in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe |

|(CEE) and the the former Soviet Union (FSU), Mongolia, and the U.N. Protectorate of Kosovo.  STOPVAW was developed with |

|support from and in consultation with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Open Society Institute's |

|Network Women's Program. This site addresses violence against women as one of the most pervasive human rights abuses |

|worldwide. STOPVAW provides women's rights advocates with information and advocacy tools focused on ending the most endemic forms |

|of violence against women in the region, including domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment and trafficking in persons.|

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|Current staff members of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights involved with the development of STOPVAW include Angela Bortel, Mary |

|Ellingen, Mary Ellison, Mary Hunt, Rosalyn Park, Robin Phillips, and Cheryl Thomas. Current interns and volunteers include Karen |

|Bridges, Amy Colon, Alexandra Douglas, Lily Troia, and Alycia Wright. |

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|For more information about STOPVAW, please contact the Website Administrator at stopvaw@. |

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