The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and building communities, IWTC provides communication, information, education, and organizing support services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of women, particularly low-income women, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia. More...
#346: NGOS USE 42ND CEDAW SESSION TO UNDERLINE BARRIERS CONFRONTING WOMEN IN THEIR COUNTRIES Women’s and civil society organizations in Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Portugal, Slovenia and Uruguay used the CEDAW space and process to bring onto the international arena major obstacles confronting women in their respective countries through the preparation of shadow reports. The purpose of the shadow report is to provide the CEDAW Committee with information on the substantive rights outlined in the CEDAW Convention. (Guidelines for writing a shadow report can be found on the IWRAW Asia-Pacific website at http://www.iwraw-ap.org/using_cedaw/sreport_guidelines.htm.) Despite the broad political spectrum of countries reporting, violence against women - in all its manifestations - was a re-occurring theme throughout all the Shadow Reports. Obstacles thwarting women’s participation in the public and political arena were also frequently noted in the majority of reports. More...
#345: SAVE THE DATE - MARCH 2 TO 13 IS THE 2009 COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN - REGISTER WITH THE UN DIVISION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN BY JAN 9 Individuals and organizations who wish to participate in the 53rd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) scheduled for March 2 to 13, 2009 at UN headquarters in New York must register with the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) by January 9, 2009. This year’s session will focus on “The equal sharing of responsibilities between men and women, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS” as its priority theme, while considering ‘Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels’ as a sub- or review theme. More...
IWTC has produced four sets of prototype radio programs about UNSCR 1325 in partnership with community broadcasters and women's organizations in the Philippines, Uganda, Liberia and Sierra Leone.Click here to find out more and listen in...
What is UNSCR 1325? What is the UN Security Council Resolution 1325? It’s a landmark document that marks the first time the UN Security Council addressed the disproportionate and unique impact of armed conflict on women and recognized their contributions to conflict prevention, peacekeeping, conflict resolution and peace-building. This same document stressed the importance of women’s equal and full participation as active agents in peace and security.
Women, Ink. is the bookstore of the International Women’s Tribune Centre (IWTC) that markets and distributes resources that focus on the perspectives of women from developing nations or in United Nations language, the Global South. Women, Ink. has a strong committment to giving visibility to books published in the Global South and continuously updates and includes new resources that meet the needs of women worldwide. Women, Ink. carries materials from international organizations and small presses in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. New resources are always welcome. More...
The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (NGOWG) was formed in May 2000 to successfully advocate for a UN Security Council Resolution (SCR) on women, peace and security. This was achieved collaboratively with the unanimous adoption of SCR 1325 on 31 October 2000. Now, the NGOWG advocates for and monitors the participation of women, prevention of conflict and protection of all civilians, to ensure full and rapid implementation of SCR 1325’s promises.
Giving a voice to issues of significant importance to women’s lives in the present global and local contexts, using community and commercial radio, internet radio, written press (women owned and mainstream media), electronic lists and TV news.
The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and building communities, IWTC provides communication, information, education, and organizing support services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of women, particularly low-income women, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia. 
