Reports on women from around the world

 

 

Reports on women's issues

Various reports by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?m=106

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, January 2007
United Nations Human Rights Council
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G07/100/90/PDF/G0710090.pdf?OpenElement

Pakistan : Girls' schools face growing threat in NWFP, Dec. 20, 2006
www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56800&SelectRegion=Asia&SelectCountry=PAKISTAN

Improving IDP data: prerequisite for more effective protection
Elisabeth Rasmussen
www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/BrookingsSpecial/10.pdf

Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws and customs in the Muslim world - 3rd edition
WLUML (Published: December 2006)
http://www.wluml.org/english/pubsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[87]=i-87-546790

Fact Sheet: Violence against women: forms, consequences and costs, October 2006
Secretary General of the United Nations
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/launch/english/v.a.w-consequenceE-use.pdf

Fact sheet: Fighting violence against women: what works , October 2006
Secretary General of the United Nations
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/launch/english/v.a.w-fightE-use.pdf

Fact Sheet: Violence against women: unmet needs, broken promises, October 2006
Secretary General of the United Nations
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/launch/english/v.a.w-unmetE-use.pdf

In-depth study on all forms of violence against women, July 2006
Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/419/74/PDF/N0641974.pdf?OpenElement

Dossier 27: The campaign for gender equality in family law: The passage of the controversial Fiji Family Law Act 2003 into law
P. Imrana Jalal (Published: December 2005)
http://www.wluml.org/english/pubsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[87]=i-87-531764

Researching Violence against Women: A practical guide for researchers and activists
World Health Organization / PATH 2005
http://www.path.org/files/GBV_rvaw_front.pdf

Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Weakening the protection of women from violence in the Middle East and North Africa region
Amnesty International Stop Violence Against Women, November 2004
http://www.fsmed.info/en/mujeres-amnistia-en.pdf

Glossary of violence against women (2004)
NGO Working Group on Violence Against Women
http://www.wunrn.com/reference/pdf/glossary_vaw.pdf

Special report on status of women and legislative reform in Morocco
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=178

CEDAW and Security Council Resolution 1325: A Quick Guide
http://www.womenwarpeace.org/UNIFEM_CEDAW_and_1325.pdf

 

Tributes to individual women

Tribute to Nancy Ann Pettis August 12, 1939 – November 18, 2003