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In this section, PeaceWomen classifies information by Theme- Human Rights - and by Subthemes: General; Socio-Economic rights/Development; Racial and Ethnic discrimination; and International & Regional Instruments & Mechanisms

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  • January 31, 2012 (Awareness Times)
    SIERRA LEONE: In Sierra Leone, Women Want Commission Gender Specialist at the Sierra Leone Conference on Transformation and Development (SLCDT), Madam Naasu Fofanah has stated that one of the resolutions of the Women of Sierra Leone for the Transformative Conference slated to kick off this morning was a clarion call for the Government of Sierra Leone to establish a “Women's Commission” that will promote the advancement of women and girls in Sierra Leone. Madam Fofanah was amongst several women who made this call during the women's vigil held at the Miatta Conference Hall Car Park in Freetown on Sunday 29th January 2012 to mark the commencement of the SLCDT slated to commence on 30th January and expected to end on 1st February 2012.
  • January 27, 2012 (UN Women)
    INTERNATIONAL: Speech by Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director UN Women, on the Zero Draft of the Rio+20 Outcome Document Speech by Ms. Lakshmi Puri Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director UN Women at the initial consultations on the Zero Draft of the Rio+20 Outcome Document, New York, 25 January 2012.
  • January 16, 2012 (Deccan Chronicle)
    EL SALVADOR: Three women tortured, killed in El Salvador The bodies of three women who appeared to have been tortured were found inside a ramshackle dwelling east of San Salvador, El Salvador's National Civilian Police, or PNC, said.
  • January 10, 2012 (The Guatemala Times)
    INTERNATIONAL: Occupy the Media: The Women's International Perspective in 2012 One of the most important things I have learned as executive editor of The WIP is that while we live in a world that is deeply sexist, many are willing to turn a blind eye to that reality in the pursuit of ideological beliefs. Whether it is the pursuit of democracy in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya or the pursuit of stability in Afghanistan, the inequality between the sexes is still perceived as a ‘women's issue.' It is left to be fought for by feminists rather than seen as a societal issue for which we all bear responsibility, and when rectified, we will all flourish.
  • January 10, 2012 (Women's News Network)
    AFRICA: Medical Experts Africa Say Maternal Mortality is a Human Rights Violation An International expert on Women's and Health Specialist has spoken out on the topic in the number of deaths occurring worldwide from maternal mortality. “It is a human rights violation because most countries in the world had signed to the United Nations declaration on the right to life,” says Ottowa, Canada based Dr. Andre Lalonde, former executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

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Further Information Panel

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Women's Human Rights and Gender Unit (WRGU)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences

 

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