Contribute / Discussion Board Add Comment | View Topics Author Topic: Users' Corner (newsletters, meeting reports, short papers) Post Date Ben B S Madondo, Open University of Zimbabwe An Engendered Comparison and Contrast of Agricultural Extension Services of East and Sub-Sahara Africa-Feminizing the extension service in Africa sub- region Author's Abstract: The east and southern Africa sub region is faced with a formidable task of engendering its extension service in order to boost food production. The performance of its agricultural ... View full message Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 23-Oct-2008 17:45:48 PM Ben B S Madondo, Zimbabwe Open University Women Farmers And Children Persevere Under A Double Day In Irrigation Production-Implications for extension support Author's Abstract: Irrigation development in the smallholder sector of Zimbabwe has developed rapidly in the last twenty years and it takes up over 280 000 hectares of land. The programmed supports o... View full message Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 23-Oct-2008 17:37:03 PM Joey/ Women, Ink. NEW! Resource collection of free materials on HIV/AIDS and women Women, Ink, a program of the International Women’s Tribune Centre, has compiled a collection of materials entitled “HIV/AIDS and Women: Resources to Support Policy and Advocacy.” Comprising some 50 ac... View full message 10-Jun-2008 16:36:00 PM Joey/ International Women's Tribune Ctr Women's Globalnet #334: Institutes, workshops & programs to shape skillful women leaders IWTC Women's GlobalNet #334 Activities and Initiatives of Women Worldwide INSTITUTES, WORKSHOPS & PROGRAMS TO SHAPE SKILLFUL WOMEN LEADERS April 24, 2008 Joeyta Bose 1. CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN PEACEM... View full message 28-Apr-2008 17:58:42 PM Joey/ Women, Ink. Women, Ink. Booklink #75: New Titles and Resources on Women Organizing, Violence Against Women & Education WOMEN, INK. BOOKLINK #75 April 2008 Katherine Toth & Joeyta Bose New Titles: Women Organizing, Violence Against Women & Education Welcome to the Women, Ink. Booklink, the monthly e-mail bulletin on ... View full message Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 17-Apr-2008 20:15:58 PM Justina Demetriades Measuring Gender Equality - discussion summary In March 2007, BRIDGE and UNDP undertook an e-discussion on measuring gender equality, to contribute to the BRIDGE Gender and Indicators Cutting Edge Pack, July 2007. This document is a summary of th... View full message 05-Feb-2008 14:17:34 PM Dr. Sufian Abu Nijaila COPING STRATEGIES WITH MARITAL VIOLENCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOME SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES AMONG MARRIED WOMEN OF THE GAZA STRIP Dr. Sufian Abu Nijaila, Associate Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University of Gaza SUMMARY: This study aims to identify the most prevalent coping strategies with marital vio... View full message 15-Jan-2008 09:55:58 AM Helen Dixon Letter to the Guardian Weekly - Abortion, war and the double standard I couldn’t help wondering how “pro-life” campaign managed to get their partisan message projected onto a blacked-out section of the houses of parliament equating abortions with a “death toll” and a bi... View full message 14-Jan-2008 12:59:53 PM Oxfam Publishing Free online resources from Oxfam on Women and Migration To mark International Migrants Day on 18th December 2007 Oxfam Publishing is providing free online access to Oxfam books, journal articles and policy papers on migrants and migration. The offer inclu... View full message 18-Dec-2007 12:43:10 PM Joey/ Women, Ink. Women, Ink. Booklink #73: Titles & resources on Gender WOMEN, INK. BOOKLINK #73 November 2007 Joeyta Bose New Titles: Gender & Development, Migration, Culture & Trade Welcome to the Women, Ink. Booklink, the monthly e-mail bulletin on what’s new in our c... View full message Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 03-Dec-2007 21:43:31 PM Joey Women, Ink. Booklink #73: Titles & resources on Gender WOMEN, INK. BOOKLINK #73 November 2007 Joeyta Bose New Titles: Gender & Development, Migration, Culture & Trade Welcome to the Women, Ink. Booklink, the monthly e-mail bulletin on what’s new in our c... View full message Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 03-Dec-2007 21:43:00 PM Oxfam Publishing Free online resources on Gender-based violence To mark the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign on 25th November 2007 Oxfam Publishing is providing free online access to Oxfam books, journal articles and policy papers ... View full message 23-Nov-2007 15:13:15 PM Gender and Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation (GWS Africa) Challenging Nigeria's Sexual Taboos Here, Dorothy Aken'Ova, a Nigerian sexual health worker, tells the BBC's Linda Pressly how sex education can help reduce domestic violence and discrimination in her country. In her office in Minna, n... View full message 06-Nov-2007 15:17:25 PM Pinar Ilkkaracan Do women and girls have human rights? The Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations was the culmination of pioneering work by the international women's movement. But rather than a vehicle to advance women's human rights, it ... View full message 06-Nov-2007 11:28:34 AM Central America Women's Network (CAWN) latest edition of the CAWN's gender and trade bulletin A-Genda This edition focuses on the EU-Central America Association Agreement, negotiations around which have just been launched in Costa Rica, and on the recent referendum in Costa Rica on DR-CAFTA. To recei... View full message Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 05-Nov-2007 16:18:49 PM Tim Symonds gender/post-conflict specialist Lesley Abdela in Asia Lesley Abdela now expects to stay in Kathmandu until March 2008. Lesley Abdela as high level, international gender adviser to UN and Nepali Government September 1 2007 - Gender/post-conflict specia... View full message 22-Oct-2007 14:40:00 PM Joey Bose Women, Ink. Booklink #72: New Resources on Women, Conflict & Peace Processes WOMEN, INK. BOOKLINK #72 October 2007 Anga’aefonu Bain-Vete & Joeyta Bose New Titles & Resources: Conflict & Peace Processes Welcome to the Women, Ink. Booklink, the monthly e-mail bulletin on what... View full message 18-Oct-2007 23:34:26 PM Tim Symonds gender/post-conflict specialist in South Asia Lesley Abdela as high level, international gender adviser to UN and Nepali Government September 1 – November 30 2007 Lesley Abdela is in Kathmandu for three months to November 30 2007 as a high leve... View full message 12-Oct-2007 12:24:25 PM Gender Studies, CR Publication: Career – Family – Equal Opportunities: Studies on Women and Men in the Czech Labour Market The publication provides the results of various studies concerning the position of women and men in the Czech labour market. The analyses were carried out as a part of the EU Equal project “Fifty - fi... View full message Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 22-Aug-2007 09:39:58 AM Gender Studies, CR Reports from thematic forums: VEGA – Valuing Empowerment in Gender Attitudes International partnership VEGA (Valuing Empowerment in Gender Attitudes) is set up of partner projects from Austria, Denmark, Czech Republic and Spain. The partnership was gathered in the purpose of e... View full message 22-Aug-2007 09:37:57 AM Gender Studies, CR HANDBOOK: Employers’ Attitudes to Equal Opportunities Policies for Women and Men Equal opportunities are one of the principles of real democracy; together with diversity, they are impulses for HR and PR strategies in companies. Even though there are more and more firms in the Czec... View full message Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 22-Aug-2007 09:33:47 AM Hadassah Welfare Assotiation Karate Working for 10 years with women our survey indicates that women are subjected to rape abuse and domestic violence because of lack of self defence.Hence we have come up with PROJECT KARATE.Here women ... View full message 09-Aug-2007 18:24:50 PM Women Make Movies WOMEN MAKE MOVIES - Resource sale These films would serve as essential resources to your outreach and education efforts within the LGBT community. Community Organizations: Buy any title for just $50 each! Women Make Movies, the world... View full message 02-Aug-2007 17:48:58 PM AWID AWID Review of Gender and Indicators Cutting Edge Pack Resource Net Friday File Issue 334 Friday July 13, 2007 1) Gender and Indicators: A BRIDGE Cutting Edge pack BRIDGE, part of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK, has developed a ran... View full message 20-Jul-2007 17:21:16 PM Justina Demetriades UNDP/BRIDGE Expert Panel on Gender Sensitive Indicators and Measurements of Change - report In March 2007 BRIDGE and The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) Gender Team undertook an Expert Panel Discussion on Gender Sensitive Indicators and Measure... View full message 17-Jul-2007 18:15:30 PM Emily Esplen RE: Male Factor in Gender Health Issues Thank you for your sharing this concern with us. At BRIDGE/Siyanda, we share your belief that gender is about more than just women. For us, gender is ultimately about the power relations between and a... View full message 11-Jul-2007 13:22:26 PM oyewole oyediran emmanuel Male Factor in Gender Health Issues Permit me to express my view on the various write-ups being pasted on your websites. I have observed with deep concern that the focus of most writers on gender issues have been mainly on women, adoles... View full message 10-Jul-2007 11:04:43 AM Oxfam Great Britian - Aceh and Nias tsunami response programme Call for expressions of interest: Research on women's economic empowerment in Aceh and Nias, Indonesia The gender unit of Oxfam GB Aceh and Nias tsunami response programme would like to conduct a research on women's economic empowerment. The goal of this research is to contribute to women and men econo... View full message Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 14-Jun-2007 09:58:02 AM St Antony's International Review Call for Papers: The Politics of Human Trafficking Deadline: Abstracts are due August 30, 2007 and papers December 30, 2007 In the year of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, the global trade in human beings is back on the poli... View full message 31-May-2007 17:50:31 PM Dr Shirley Randell Gender Equality in Education in Rwanda: What is happening to our Girls? Paper presented at the South African Association of Women Graduates Conference (with Allison Huggins) 14-May-2007 04:18:23 AM DFID RPC - Pathways of Women's Empowerment Carnival, Carriages and Campaigns - making governments accountable What do you do if the government you’ve worked so hard to elect reneges on their promises once they get into office? And your attempts to name and shame them in letters to the newspapers aren’t gettin... View full message 23-Apr-2007 18:26:32 PM One World Action Article: 'Gendered States' by Sarah Lindon http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/gendered_states_4415.jsp 28-Mar-2007 18:45:05 PM United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) United Nations new International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics: "iKNOW Politics" The International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics (iKNOW Politics) was founded in partnership by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), the Int... View full message 01-Mar-2007 16:15:57 PM One World Action The Politics of Democratic Governance - case studies Case studies of One World Action seminar participants - The Politics of Democratic Governance - March 1st and 2nd 2007 For further information on speakers at the seminar and papers available, see: ht... View full message Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 26-Feb-2007 19:52:34 PM Gender and Health Equity Network (GHEN) News Issue 5 - Januray 2007 In this fifth issue of GHEN News, attached, you will find reports on the activities of the Gender and Health Equity Network over the last year, as well as plans for 2007, the final year of the project, during which the primary focus will be on documenting and disseminating project activities. Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 13-Feb-2007 10:45:55 AM Preetu Nair Media reports on Paedophilia in Goa I am a journalist working in Goa and am sending my mail again . I would like to bring to the attention of goajourno two stories which appeared recently one the BBC report which goes like this Goa - n... View full message 12-Feb-2007 10:56:31 AM Steve Beckow A Call to End Gender Abuse Globally by January 1, 2020 I invite you to make this context, purpose, and deadline your own: a complete end everywhere to gender abuse by 2020. Right click on the disk icon and choose "Save Target as..." to download the attached document. 12-Feb-2007 10:54:11 AM Killari Foundation Empowering Andean young women Killari is nonprofit organization aimed to empower Andean rural young women by providing social and financial support for them to pursue post-secondary education. People at Killari, both in the U.S. a... View full message 12-Feb-2007 10:47:58 AM Add Comment | View Topics Please Note: The "Post Date" is shown in red if a posting was made today and orange if a posting was made in the last 7 days.