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- IFUW Past President, Linda Souter, addressing the 1998 World Conference
on Higher Education (IFUW, 1998)
- Graphic Artwork by Brazilian artist Octavio Roth - Article 3 of
the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights - See Thirty
Articles (© Octavio Roth - (UN/DPI Photo)
- "Women Join Hands" (UN/DPI Photo)
- Logo for the United
Nations Literacy Decade 2003-2012 (UN/DPI)
- Members of IFUW's Turkish affiliate, Gaziantep branch (TÜKD/IFUW,
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International
Advocacy
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IFUW is a launch partner for UNIFEM's campaign Say NO to Violence against Women. This initiative is a global internet-based advocacy effort to end violence against women. The campaign is making visible the growing movement of people demanding that ending violence against women becomes a top priority. Participants are adding their names to an internet “virtual” book as an expression of public support and call for action.
The United Nations Foundation has announced that it will donate $1 for each of the first 100,000 signatures to the UNIFEM-managed UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. Therefore we encourage all IFUW members to participate! Every signature will result in a donation of $1, so please sign here. To read more about the challenge click here.
Ending violence against women is essential to reaching development targets, such as the Millennium Development Goals, and also to security and peace. The initiative is supported by a wide range of United Nations organizations, civil society organizations and the private sector as one in three women and girls will be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in their lifetime.
This initiative will continue until 8 March 2008, International Women’s Day.
For more information, visit www.saynotoviolence.org. To find out about IFUW NFA action against violence visit our No Violence page.
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 Manual for Gender Audit Facilitators, the ILO Participatory Gender Audit Methodology. The International Labour Office (ILO) has published a gender audit manual to promote organizational learning at all levels on how to mainstream gender in the policies, programmes and structures of an organization. The manual has evolved from gender methodology which the ILO itself has used internally in recent years to integrate sex disaggregated data, gender analysis, gender equality objectives, indicators, conclusions and strategies for action within their programmes and projects.
Click here to download the manual - PDF format - 150 pages
Click here to read the December 2007 issue of ILO Gender news
- Millenium
Goals: how can national affiliates and members get in involved?
In the latest issue of the BFWG News, Catriona Thompson, CIR of
the British Federation challenged members of the British Federation
to act locally and nationally to ensure that their Government
finds the political will to implement these the seven strategic
Millenium priorities outlined above. This challenge is one that
can be taken up by every IFUW national affiliate. Find out what
your government is doing to advance the Millenium Goal 3. Encourage
your government to include gender equity in its national development
programme. Share information with
other IFUW affiliates.
To see if the world is succeeding or failing in meeting the Millennium Developement Goals on ending poverty, visit the MDG Monitor website. The site gathers statistics from around the world to give a snapshot of how each country is doing in meeting the eight goals, from cutting infant mortality to reducing hunger.
- Convention
on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women:
If your country is among those scheduled to report in July 2005
(Lebanon, Burkina Faso, Ireland, Israel) or January 2006 (Australia,
Thailand), check with appropriate government officials to obtain
a copy of the government report in advance and participate in
the preparation of the "shadow" or alternative report,
or at least, get a copy of it in advance to study how it differs
from the government report.
Examples of Action
At the occasion of the IFUW 29th Conference in Manchester several presentations were given by the National Affiliates on the Advocacy Role of the CIRs.
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