Gender News November
The news from the gender and sustainable development working group
15.11.2005 |Ulrike Röhr
The main points of the news are:
NEWS FROM THE EU AND BEYOND
- Gender equality in the South Caucasus
- European Parliament public hearing on the creation of a European Gender Institute: the need for a strong feminist body with adequate funding
- EU Parliament adopts report on Community Programme PROGRESS
- ‘Gender’ at the WTO Ministerial Meeting
- Globalizacija: Journal for political theory and research on globalisation, development and gender issues
- The Big See Challenge – campaign calls for tighter controlls
WOMEN & PEACE
- Women and security: ‘You cannot dance if you cannot stand’
- Women’s constant underrepresentation in formal peace processes
- UN Unveils Plan to Address Gender Equality in Peacekeeping
REPORTS & RESOURCES
- Securing equality, engendering peace: A guide to policy and planning on women, peace and security
- OXFAM publication: Gender and the Millennium Development Goals
- Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty
- Report on Health and Women-related Millennium Development Goals - IPAS, Chapel Hill, USA.
- Exploring and understanding gender in education: a qualitative research manual for education practitioners and gender focal points
- Crossing Borders: Remittances, Gender and Development
- Women's Indicators and Statistics: Wistat Database CD-ROM, Version 4
- Women's Fundraising Handbook (English, French and Spanish)
- Gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation
- The World’s Largest Workplace: Social Reproduction and Wages for Housework
DATES / CONFERENCES
- The EU’s responsibility at the WTO: Environment, Gender and Development
- Final Conference of Women in Net: “Gender Equality in Europe towards 2007-2013” – Women Resources Centres and Networking as Gender Mainstreaming Tools.
- Gender and conflict transformation
- The Russians are expected to share their ideas on teaching about the environment
CALLS
- Call for papers: Women’s views at the nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl
- Call for abstracts – First World Congress on Men, Women and Medicine
- CEE Fundraising Achievement Award 2005
- Call for papers: Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context, 6th European Gender Research Conference, University of _ódz, Poland - 31 August - 3 September 2006
