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Today kicks off the 8th annual United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which runs through May 29th. Like most conferences and [...]

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Weekly Wrap Up

by Audacia Ray on May 15, 2009

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Here’s what we’ve been reading this week: Via the Feminist Majority Foundation, we learned that Spain is set to make emergency contraception [...]

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On Monday, the Court of Appeals in Dakar, Senegal, took an encouraging but surprising decision to overturn the convictions of “same-sex” conduct [...]

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Yesterday when I posted a link to Susanna’s post about Latina feminist activists demanding that governments meet their demands at the United [...]

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After eight years of failed leadership, the US renewed its commitment to reproductive health and the goals and aspirations of the International [...]

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This week RH Reality Check and UN Dispatch are co-hosting a blogging salon called After the Gag Rule. Mark Goldberg, of UN [...]

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Women’s eNews has a great article by Dominique Soguel about the United Nations’ attempt to increase the numbers of female peacekeepers in [...]

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Among the many formal meetings at the Commission on the Status of Women that take place inside the United Nations, there are [...]

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The 53rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is taking place at the United Nations from March 2-13. Every CSW has [...]

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From February 26-28, the International Women’s Health Coalition hosted an Advocacy in Practice (AiP) training for fifteen youth activists from ten different [...]

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