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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 |
| | | |Handbook |
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| | |[pic] Jordan |New Report on Indigenous Women and the |
| | | |United Nations System |
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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|
| | | |Africa |
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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 |
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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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