[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update Monday 27th April 2009 (16)

[WiL Updates]

27th April 2009

(continuation of update from Friday 24th April)

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Information added to Women in London 26th April 2009
* Index of links to new entries: http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk

WiL Calendars
* Events Calendar - updated 26th April
* Funding Calendar - updated 26th April
* Training Calendar - updated 26th April
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New on womensphere http://womensphere.wordpress.com
(international women's news and views)

* Is Pornography the New Tobacco?
* Stop Porn Culture Training - 5th to 7th June in Boston
* Sign the petition to build a UN that really works for all women!
* Occupation and Siege Sideline Rampant Domestic Violence in Gaza
* UN survey highlights psychological trauma in Gaza
* As Obama Escalates War Afgahan Women Face Growing Oppression
* Hilary Clinton stands up to pro life bullies
* Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million
* Sierra Leone Chiefs ban genital cutting for girls under 18
* France campaigns against forced marriages and genital mutilation
* Media Spotlight on Domestic Violence in Romania
* New Zealand police deny that they are not tackling the issue of
domestic violence adequately
* Australian Family Court removes two children from their mother in
favour of father and new partner
* Canada's Leadership in Pay Equity Eroding
* Economic Crisis: Women Will Suffer Most - a comment from Australia
* New laws in Los Angeles treat teen prostitutes as abuse victims
* Taiwan sex workers demand decriminalisation of prostitution
* Iceland to ban sex purchases, strip clubs
* Italian Senate approves anti-rape law
* Women's groups in India protest newspaper reporting of rape case
* Rwanda's rape victims - 15 years on
* Are drugs driving child rape in South Africa?
* Teenager in Australia charged with aborting fetus herself
* Abortion Law to Become Tougher in Korea
* Chileans Clearly Divided on Abortion
* Abortion row shakes Brazil opinion
* Belgium condemns Pope over condom issue
* Religion and Poverty Force Girls into Early Marriages in Zimbabwe
* Turkish Government wants religious education to help solve women's
problems
* The guns are quiet in Basra now, but behind the veil fear lingers
* Taliban shoot dead Afghan politician who championed women's rights
* Afghan women protest against law that 'legalises rape'
* Q&A: How does the Afghan Shi'ite law affect women?
* Index to postings - March 2009
* Index to postings - February 2009
* Index to postings - January 2009
* March Round Up - Feminism Feminists
* March Round Up - Sexual Abuse and Rape
* March Round Up - Women and Power / Politics
* March Round Up - Women in Conflict Zones
* March Round Up - Abortion
* March Round Up - IWD
* Apologies - March Round Up
* LA's Untested Rape Kits Represent Lost Justice
* 'Worse than the Taliban' - new law rolls back rights for Afghan
women
* Serious concern over arrest of 12 Women's Rights Activists in Iran
* Call for Action: Imprisonment and Whipping of 75 year-old Woman in
Saudi Arabia
* Recession 'hits Third World women'

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http://womensphere.wordpress.com/index-to-current-postings/

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