 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...
LETTER TO UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE ARMED CONFLICT IN THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES
We would like to express utmost concern about the recent breakout of violence in Southern Philippines (parts of Mindanao island) following the issuance of a temporary restraining order against the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain by the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on August 4, 2008.
Fifty (50) people, most of whom are civilians, have been killed and some 220,000 have been displaced by the recent attacks in Lanao and North Cotabato provinces.
...We now call on your office to bring the government of the Republic of the Philippines and MILF back to the peace negotiation table as soon as possible. We also call on you to demand both parties to honor their obligation under Security Council Resolution 1325 which is to ensure women’s equal and fair participation in peace processes and ensure the protection of women and children who are the most vulnerable in armed conflict situations.
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TO SHOW SOLIDARITY AND SIGN ON TO THE LETTER, contact IWTC Senior Program Associate Mavic Cabrera Balleza (mavic@iwtc.org) or Sarah Nagadya (sarah@iwtc.org)
#340: OUTCOME OF THE 41ST SESSION OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
On 30 July 2008 States parties to the Convention of the Elimination of all Forms Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) elected the following candidates to fill the eleven positions on the CEDAW Committee that will become vacant on 31 December 2008:
- Ms. Nicole Ameline ( France )
- Ms. Magalys Arocha Dominguez ( Cuba)
- Ms. Violet Tsisiga Awori ( Kenya)
- Ms. Barbara Evelyn Bailey ( Jamaica)
- Mr. Niklas Bruun ( Finland)
- Ms. Indira Jaising ( India)
- Ms. Soledad Murillo de la Vega (Spain)
- Ms. Silvia Pimentel ( Brazil)
- Ms. Victoria Popescu ( Romania)
- Ms. Zohra Rasekh ( Afghanistan) - Ms. Xiaoqiao Zou ( China)
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#339: WOMEN'S ADVOCACY AROUND PARIS DECLARATION ON AID EFFECTIVENESS AND UNITED NATIONS GENDER EQUALITY ARCHITECTURE
1. WOMEN ORGANIZE TO PREPARE FOR FORUM TO REVIEW PARIS DECLARATION ON AID EFFECTIVENESS
In anticipation of the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness that will take place in Accra, Ghana, from September 2 to 4, 2008, women’s rights organizations, advocates and activists will be gathering at the Accra Women’s Forum on August 30 to articulate a coherent set of recommendations and plan for women’s effective engagement. The High-Level Forum will be a venue for donor and recipient governments to review the implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness over the last three years and determine a fresh agenda for action on delivering and managing aid. The Paris Declaration seeks to increase the impact aid has in reducing inequalities, supporting growth, building capacity and accelerating the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals which aim to halve world poverty by 2015. More...
This collection of official
documents and analysis on financing for gender equality as well as practical
materials related to fundraising was originally produced as a CD-ROM and
distributed during the 52nd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status
of Women. The theme of the commission was ‘Financing for Gender Equality and
the Empowerment of Women.’
In
light of upcoming conferences such as the Follow-up
International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the
Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, to be held in November in
Doha, IWTC is hosting the collection on its website to support
informed participation in debates and discussions around the
gender-specific
aspects of these issues. 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.
Download the simplified version of UNSCR 1325 [Plain Text] [PDF]
Download the full version of UNSCR 1325 [Plain text] [PDF]
 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.
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