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Zimbabw: 05 July 2008,e: Release on bail of Ms. Jennifer Williams and Ms. Magodonga Mahlangu, The Observatory
Iran: 13 June 2008 - Nine Women's Rights Activists Arrested
Bougainville : Why was Magdalene Toroansi sacked from Cabinet this week?
Philippines : STOP POLITICAL PERSECUTION AGAINST CONGRESSWOMAN LIZA MAZA, Gabriela Women's Party Representative
On International Women’s Day,
We Stand In Support of Women’s Human Rights in Iran
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Malaysia: June 11, 2008, - Trial of Irene Fernandez, Director of Tenaganita postponed to August 5, 2008 at the High Court 5, Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur.
NEPAL: 16 June 2008, WHRD Murdered
UZBEKISTAN: MS. MUTABAR TOJIBAEVA RELEASED !
IRAN: Women's Rights Activists Get Suspended Lashing Sentences
IRAN: Women's Movement: More International Support, More Persecution at Home, and link the article
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QUESTIONNAIRE on Women Human Rights Defenders
The International Campaign on Women Human Rights Defenders is now in the process of consolidating its work and establishing a coalition that will sustain its support to women human rights defenders in the future. As part of this process, the campaign is developing a report on the state of affairs of women human rights defenders since 2005, when the campaign was launched, until the present.
As an activist defending women’s rights or one of the women human rights defenders, we would like to request you to complete this questionnaire. Your response will be the basis of the report and will inform the three-year strategic plan of the coalition. It will give us a better understanding of the profile of women human rights defenders worldwide, as well as the violations and constraints they face in their work and the measures needed to address them.
It will take you about 1 - 2 hours to complete this questionnaire. You may answer it on your own, or you can form a focus group discussion for a collective reflection, but be sure that each participant in the group is writing on one questionnaire each. Please add more spaces for your answers if necessary. Your answers will be treated confidentially. But if there is any information that you may not want to reveal, you may skip answering that specific question.
Please return your completed form to whrd@apwld.org by 30 August 2008.
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WOZA members beaten in the streets of Bulawayo on International Women's Day
Breaking news
Saturday 8th March
WOZA members beaten in the streets of Bulawayo on International Women's Day
Over 1,000 members of WOZA and MOZA marched through the streets of Bulawayo today to commemorate International Women's Day. The peaceful protesters, who were carrying balloons, were met by riot police after four blocks and viciously beaten. Over 50 members received medical attention for injuries caused by the assault.
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International Support for Persecuted Women’s Rights Campaigners in Iran
(March 7, 2008) In a strong show of international support for the Iranian women’s rights movement, over 280 leading women’s right advocates and organizations from around the world including six Nobel Peace Laureates have expressed their serious concern about the persecution and prosecution of their Iranian colleagues. They have endorsed a statement calling on the Iranian government to end repressive policies and the persecution of campaigners for equal rights. read more
Protest Closure of Iranian Women's
Magazine
Click Here to Take Action:
http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Zanan/
With parliamentary elections around the corner in Iran, the free press and the right to freedom of expression are increasingly under fire.
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Freedom of expression and information must be guaranteed
Freedom of expression and information must be guaranteed
*Paris, 3 January 2008 *
The International Federation for Human Rights
(FIDH) strongly condemns the arbitrary detention and assault in Pakistan
on a group of persons including the two daughters of Ms. Asma Jahangir,
Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), human
rights lawyer and United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of
religion or belief.
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Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders
A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders is aimed to help women human rights defenders name the specific risks, violations and constraints they face in their work. It presents a practical discussion of the useful mechanisms developed by the state and also the civil society to provide redress and remedy, and to protect women human rights defenders. It is intended to be used by human rights and other organisations to further a gender perspective in the monitoring and documentation of human rights.
The guidebook was produced by APWLD in close collaboration with individuals and organisations that participated in the international campaign on women human rights defenders since 2005. Printed copies are for sale at 25USD including postage. For orders please contact APWLD at Phone numbers: (66) 53 284527, 284856
Fax: +66 53 280847 email: apwld@apwld.org.
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CELEBRATING WOMEN'S RESISTANCE!
Following is the video shown at the opening of the International Consulation on Women Human Rights Defenders held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 29 - 2 December 2005. The video is produced by Young Asia Television, Sri Lanka on behalf of the Women Human Rights Defenders' International Coordinating Committee.
The video is a tribute to all women human rights defenders who have been killed in defense of human rights and to many women activists and defenders of women's rights who continue to advocate for the realisation of all human rights for all.
The video is in English, French and Spanish version. Please download and use it for your March 8 activities or any other mobilisation around women's human rights, as we continue to celebrate women's resistance!
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