WOMEN, INK. BOOKLINK #75
April 2008
Katherine Toth & Joeyta Bose
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with us while we repair these problems. This month's Booklink features an
exciting array of titles and additional resources about a
variety of issues, including movement building, violence
against women and education. The new titles for the month
are: 2. Building Feminist
Movements and Organizations 3. Practising Gender
Equality in Education 4. Gender-Based
Violence Visit our website
at
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further information and to buy any of the featured
titles. 1. Building National Campaigns:
Activists, Alliances, and How Change Happens Poor quality employment undermines
sustainable development and gender-equality throughout
the world. Yet, the number of women employed in
precarious jobs, with unstable incomes, little access to
benefits and fewer opportunities to claim their rights is
increasing even as they remain trapped in poverty.
Building alliances and deploying campaigns have become
important strategies for civil society organizations to
draw attention to gender inequalities and call for
sweeping changes. Drawing on five campaigns in Colombia,
Morocco, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and the United States,
this book describes and analyzes stories, innovative
methodologies and learning from alliance-based efforts to
improve employment standards for workers, primarily women
in export-oriented supply chains. It offers a number of
approaches and activities that would be useful in various
contexts and examines alliance-building, the development
of gender-sensitive strategies and the use of media. 2. Practising Gender Equality in
Education What does quality gender-equitable
education look like? How can NGOs, practitioners,
policy-makers and researchers work together to achieve
it? Compiled to support the development of policy and
good practice for quality education for all, this book
focuses on partnerships between practitioners, policy
makers and researchers; multiple interventions and
actions to achieve sustainable change; advocacy for
policy and practice; government commitment to and
responsibility for basic education; and adequate and
sustainable financing. Contributors comment on key
challenges in achieving gender equality in education,
provide examples of initiatives in a range of contexts
and make recommendations for action. Examples from Africa
and South Asia are used to explore the dynamics of
creating gender equity in schools. 3. Gender-Based Violence Despite the recognition by the
international community that gender-based violence (GBV)
is a serious and fundamental problem, it remains a
pervasive and insidious crisis. This book grapples with
a wide range of manifestations of gender-based violence
and discusses the critical and innovative work being done
globally to tackle them. Femicide, domestic and sexual
violence, female genital mutilation, the sexual
exploitation of girls at school, property grabbing and
trafficking for prostitution and other forms of GBV are
discussed within specific contexts, including displaced
persons and refugee camps, schools, communities and
cities, marriages and domestic relations and in
humanitarian settings. While the articles discuss GBV
within specific contexts and countries in Africa, Central
America, South Asia and South East Asia, the necessity of
using a holistic, multi-dimensional approach to tackle
GBV is maintained throughout. This approach operates on
the understanding that gender-based violence must be
understood and addressed within a broader framework of
challenging inequality between men and women at all
levels of society. 4. Building Feminist Movements
& Organizations - Global Perspectives The struggle for the advancement of
women's rights and gender equality globally is impossible
without strong women's organizations and movements to
provide leadership and momentum. But what does it take to
create effective and sustainable women's movements? This
groundbreaking collection of essays by activists from all
corners of the globe explores what it means to be an
influential women's organization and what it takes to
build the kinds of women's movements needed to transform
women's lives. From how to build successful participatory
democratic processes and implement shared leadership
models to lessons on overcoming internal organizational
divisions, the case studies on both the "what" and the
"how" of movement building. ************************ RESOURCES Free resources on conflict and
peace processes available over the Internet: 1. Achieving Women's Economic
and Social Rights: Strategies and Lessons from
Experience AWID asked over 50 activists
working in diverse settings all over the world to
describe strategies they found most useful in their
efforts to improve economic and social rights for women
and the challenges they encountered in their
work. Synthesizing and analyzing
important examples and lessons that emerged through this
investigative process, this report examines strategies
that have been used successfully to achieve the economic
and social rights of women, including litigation and
judicial processes, making and reforming public policy,
understanding and using budgets, advocating the use of UN
mechanisms, fact-finding and investigative work, and
campaigns and other popular mobilizations. Read the full report:
http://www.awid.org/publications/ESCR-english.pdf 2. On the Margins of Profit:
Rights at Risk in the Global Economy Business activity around the world
has a profound effect on people's lives and livelihoods,
but international debates about business conduct
frequently neglect to fully consider the many ways that
businesses can advance or impede the enjoyment of human
rights. The report incorporates case studies in seven
categories, including - right to security of the person,
economic and social rights, civil and political rights,
non-discrimination, labor rights, rights of communities
or groups including indigenous peoples, and right to an
effective remedy and accountability. The report's
overarching conclusion is that global intergovernmental
standards on business and human rights are needed. Such
standards will be important in their own right and will
provide a common framework and a spur for domestic and
other efforts to address the full range of abuses
documented in the report. Get your own copy: http://hrw.org/reports/2008/bhr0208/ 3. Taking Community Empowerment
to Scale: Lessons from Three Successful Experiences This document describes and
analyses the strategies, successes and challenges of
three programs that used approaches grounded in community
empowerment to achieve impact public health in three
different settings in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The first case study comes from the Philippines where an
approach called the Appreciative Community Mobilisation
(ACM) was used to effect change in family planning, child
survival, and environmental conservation. ACM combines
Community Mobilization, Capacity Building and
Appreciative Inquiry to great success. The second case
study describes the experience of the organization Arab
Women Speak Out which aimed to empower women throughout
the Arab world. The third case, the Madagascar Child
Survival and Reproductive Health Program, focused
specifically on how the project's community and
communication components led to community-based work on a
large scale. Find out more at: http://www.comminit.com/en/node/267209 4. Training of Trainers:
Gender-Based Violence Focusing on Sexual Exploitation and
Abuse (Training Manual) This training tool is an outline
for a two-day training workshop on gender-based violence,
with special reference to sexual abuse and exploitation.
Facilitators are expected to take specific modules and
adapt them to their needs and the context where the
training is taking place (objectives, profile of
participants, office and national culture and time
available etc.). The first day of the training is
designed to increase participant's knowledge and
understanding of the concept of gender, and gender-based
violence. The second day takes a closer look at sexual
exploitation and abuse and includes sessions on the core
principles for a code of conduct, reporting mechanisms
and developing a programmatic response. Find out more at: 5. Global Anti-Violence Resource
Guide A helpful and informative resource
for those working on violence against women, this site
lists over organizations that are fighting and advocating
against violence against women in every world region.
Organization names are accompanied by their street
address, contact information (e-mail and telephone
numbers) and websites. Learn more at: http://www.feminist.com/antiviolence/global.html Orders made through
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1. Building
National Campaigns: Activists, Alliances, and How
Change Happens
Dave Dalton
2007. 103 pages. ISBN 978-0-85598-574-5. WE 863. US$
13.60.
Edited by Sheila Aikman and Elaine
Unterhalter
2007. 130 pages. ISBN 978-0-85598-598-1. WE 866. US$
20.75.
Edited by Geraldine Terry with Joanna
Hoare
2007. 163 pages. ISBN 978-0-85598-602-5. WE873.
US$20.75
Editors: Lydia Alpízar Duran, Noël D.
Payne & Anahi Russo
2007. 269 pages. ISBN: 978-1-84277-850-0. WE867. $36.00
Association for Women's Rights in Development,
2006
Human Rights Watch, 2008
Gail Snetro-Plewman, Marcela Tapia, Valerie
Uccellani, Angela Brasington and Maureen
McNulty
UNICEF, 2003
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwt.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/37acc35e7f3eff23c1256e08004bd41b
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