SEXISME et DROITS des FEMMES
Sexism and Women's Rights

Bulletin 2005 - 10 : Consulter l'intégralité du bulletin - Download the newsletter
(version franco-anglaise - French-English version)

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History / Histoire
* 6000 years of Patriarchal Religion
* The European Witch-Hunts, c. 1450-1750 (' Feminicide" !)
* Women's demands for Gender Equality and the full and equal participation and involvement of women in promoting peace and security
* War against women...May Chidiac
* Angela Merkel
* UN : two veteran UN women to high-level positions
* 2006 Voices of Courage Awards

Petition
* A World Referendum
* Urgent Appeal / Appel Urgent
* Alert / Alerte ! FAITES ENTENDRE VOTRE VOIX CONTRE une CONSTITUTION qui marginalise les femmes...en Irak !

Demonstration / Manifestation : World March of Women

News  / Nouvelles
- France
Les intégristes proposent d'adjoindre à notre code civil, un autre code, "coranique" destiné aux musulmans !
Proposition de loi sur le harcèlement sexuel
- Suisse : Il n'y aura pas de solution fédérale à la distribution des allocations familiales
- Vatican : Quarante ans de silence sur les abus sexuels au sein de l'Eglise
- Italia : L'identità lesbica
- Portugal : Lisboa quiere atraer más turismo homosexual

- Afghanistan : Opium farmers sell daughters to cover debts to traffickers
- India
* Anti-prostitution laws in for drastic revamp
* Female Infanticide (Power Point)
- Nepal : Supreme Court Ruling on End of Discrimination of Women during Menstruation
- China : Trafficking of women and girls increases...

- Iran
* Laws Against Women
* Le fouet automatique pour les mal voilées
- Iraq : Photo Horror- War in Iraq in exchange of free access to porn sites

- Swaziland Ends Chastity Rule for Girls Under 18

- USA
* Child Sexual Abuse 
* Senate Passes Violence Against Women Act
- Latin America : Violence Against Women

- EU / Union Européenne
* Abortion / Avortement
* Le travail en Europe

- Australia : Headscarves deny women rights

Worldwide / International

* What is a gender-sensitive life course approach to older women's health?

* The Law and the Girl Child

* The cost of school beyond reach of millions

* FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY WILL NOT BE WON WITHOUT ATTENTION TO ELDERLY

* Help Raise Awareness of Human Trafficking !

* Why do women make up the majority of the poor ?

Conference
* U.N. supports women in conflict resolution
* Some other Meetings...
* Pakistan : Women urged to resist injustices 
* South India : For widows’ human rights
* Philippines : International Course on Gender Mainstreaming
* Ethiopia : "Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes
* France : « Les droits des femmes, un combat pour l'universel »
* USA / Netherlands : International Youth Conferences
* Congrès mondial sur les femmes, les hommes et la médecine / World Congress on Men, Women and Medicine

Book / Livre
* Journalist / Journaliste
* The Psychoanalytic Review

Report / Rapport
* The first ever comparative assessment of women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa
* Lebanon : Women's & Girls Human Rights
* Kuwait : Women's Rights & the Meaning of Citizenship
* Afghanistan : Promouvoir le rôle des femmes
* Women's informal employment
* Global picture of women as unacknowledged casualties of war
* Age discrimination : new study

Leisure / Loisir
* Lebanon : International Marathon
* Muslim Values Version of Barbie Doll

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