March 2006
Tina Johnson
Special Sale to Assist Liberian Market Women
To support the Sirleaf Market Women's Fund, Women, Ink. is selling Liberian Women Peacemakers, originally priced at $19.95, for $10.00. The entire proceeds from the sales will be donated to the Fund, which has been created to honour Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected woman president. During 16 years of civil war, Liberian women sustained their families, saved lives and kept food supplies flowing while they marched and negotiated for peace. In 2005 they turned their hard-won organizational skills to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The Fund - a sub-fund of the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) - will help these women restore their livelihoods as they recover from the war.
Liberian Women Peacemakers has been called "both a fascinating history of Liberian women's struggle to influence their country's future and a case study of the critical role women can play in conflict resolution and peace-building worldwide" (Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM).
For ordering information, please see specifics at the end of the Booklink. For information on how to contribute directly to the Fund, go to AWDF's website (www.AWDF.org), which has information on how to donate using any country's currency and includes mailing addresses.
New Reference Titles in the Women, Ink. Collection
We have recently added the following three titles, all of which will make useful additions to your reference collection:
- 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe
- Gains and Gaps: A Look at the World's Women
- The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics
1000 Peace Women Across the Globe
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 (eds.)
The project ‚' 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005' set out to and did nominate 1000 women - a symbolic number - for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005. This book introduces these women, who were carefully chosen to represent the millions doing similar work around the world. Without regard for their own safety, women are active on behalf of their community's well-being. They call for reconciliation, demand justice and rebuild what has been destroyed. They work on the frontline in crisis and war-torn regions as well as in the background all over the world.The goal of the project and the book is to draw attention to these women and their thus-far nearly invisible but highly important work. Each of the selected women is presented on a double page, with a short biography that gives an insight into her life and work and, in most cases, a portrait photograph. The images and texts were compiled by local journalists, authors, academics and members of organizations.
1000 Peace Women Across the Globe will be a useful reference guide for NGOs, governments, peace and women's networks and relief organizations as well as a general audience interested in grassroots movements working towards the growth of democratic civil society.
2005. ISBN 3-03939-039-2. 1,000 pages. WE748. $45.00
Gains and Gaps: A Look at the World's Women
Women are stepping into national leadership posts in such diverse nations as Chile, Germany and Liberia. Women make up increasing percentages of parliamentarians in post-conflict countries such as Rwanda and South Africa. But this is also a time when women are facing increasing challenges. Worldwide, women and girls are becoming the majority of new victims of HIV/AIDS. Seventy-five to 80 per cent of refugees are women and their children. Changes in the global economy are creating new and devastating threats to the well-being of women and their families everywhere.This new report from the National Council for Research on Women sheds light on the conditions and experiences of women around the globe. It focuses on six key components of women’s security: education and literacy; political and civic participation; violence; health; the economy; and the special threats faced by groups of women whose security is particularly tenuous. Gains and Gaps brings an important comparative perspective to these issues. At the same time, it points to the dearth of data and research on women on which to base programmes and policies. The report includes charts, graphs and an extensive bibliography.
2006. ISBN 1-880547-28-7. 56 pages. WE750. $15.00
The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics
This report focuses on the state of statistics for addressing gender concerns. To monitor progress in gender equality and the advancement of women and to guide policy, it is crucial to have reliable and timely statistics. Yet official national data on basic demographic and social topics for gender analysis are at times deficient or unavailable. Consequently, much of the trend analysis in the previous editions of The World's Women (published in 1991, 1995 and 2000) either limited coverage to countries that had reasonably good data over time or relied on national and regional estimates prepared by the international statistical system.Rather than looking at trends, The World's Women's 2005 examines the current availability of national data and assesses progress in data reporting from 1975 to 2003, based on the information that national statistical authorities provide to the international statistical system. The statistics reviewed include those related to population, households and families; health; education and training; and work. Also discussed in the report is the current state of statistics in some relatively newer areas: violence against women; poverty; power and decision-making; and human rights.
Since the improvement of national statistical capacity is essential for improving gender statistics, this report proposes a set of strategies to strengthen national capacity to collect and report statistics and also for improved mainstreaming of gender concerns. An Annex provides updated figures for many of the indicators presented in The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics, plus some additional relevant indicators of the status of women and men. The World's Women 2005 is thus an important reference tool for national statistical agencies and for governments, researchers, academics and others in need of statistics for monitoring, planning and awareness-raising. Gender specialists can also use the report as an advocacy tool for the improvement of gender statistics.
2005. ISBN 92-1-161482-1. 168 pages. WE740. $25.00.
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