The following submissions are not exhaustive. They cover elements of state responsibility in relation to prevention, protection, prosecution, punishment and compensation necessary for addressing sexual violence against women. State response and law reform relating to all sexual crimes is needed and necessary. In fact any plan to deter aggravated sexual assault must include action against […]
India’s role in relation to the MDG effort has a dual significance: one the on hand it is seen as a key contributor to the achievement of specific goals, but on the other – and perhaps more importantly – it is directly responsible for the well being of over one-third of the world’s poor, thus […]
Workshop organised by Partners for Law in Development (PLD) in New Delhi 27th – 31stOctober, 2012 PLD organised a five-day residential workshop on the women’s movement’s engagement with the criminal law in addressing violence against women. The objective was to revisit the feminist legal debates around specific issues such as sexual assault, sexuality, sex work, […]
Back in the 1990s, merchants happen to be provided with of us sectors required to produced grade public relations in order to boost their sales made. Since the human resource personnel have already been really the only way to obtain business and gadget information, buyers presumed almost everything they informed them.
This trainers’ guide meets the longstanding demand of trainers and programmers working with and on CEDAW. Participants in successive training programmes conducted by PLD on developing capacities in implementing CEDAW have expressed the need for a document that provides guidance on content and perspective, and also suggests tools and exercises for facilitating communication, learning, and […]
The application for the 2013 session of the annual Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia University is now available. The application is available online This web-based format is the only version of the 2013 application. The Program is designed for lawyers, journalists, doctors, teachers, social workers, community organizers, and other human rights activists working […]
This Crowdsourcing Project is an Initiative to raise awareness about Violence Against Women and Children in India through media reports. The Source Code used is Open Source powered by Ushahidi Crisis Mapping Platform. Once enough information has been gathered, the data will be made available to other websites, apps by API calls and also in […]
UNICEF and UN Women have launched new electronic resource center on Equity, Gender Equality and Human Rights responsive evaluation. This electronic centre is a guide on how to design and manage evaluations that integrate Equity, Human Rights and Gender Equality. The website is structured in two parts: Equity-focused evaluations Gender Equality and Human Rights Responsive […]
APWLD will hold the first ever Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) on 12-14 December 2011 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The APFF will bring together women activists, lawyers, academics, advocates and youth leaders to celebrate our collective achievements, reflect on our challenges and shifting political environments, deepen feminist knowledge and analysis, strengthen our sisterhood, solidarity and […]
PWESCR’s annual leadership development programme is uniquely designed for women’s rights leaders (men and women) working in organisations from the economic South in key leadership positions. Using a human rights framework and the ICESCR to address structural causes of poverty and inequality, the Institute will particularly focus on the social construct of gender and women’s […]
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