In Ecuador, UNIFEM is partnering with national women's institutions, CONAMU, the municipality of Quito and Amnesty International to organize cinema forums, workshops of gender equality and violence against women for youth, a concert, educational fair, art exhibitions and an academic debate involving prominent researchers on the issue from around the Andean region.

This year celebrates the 60th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 to which most of the nations of the world subscribe.

As part of JASS' global movement-building initiative, twenty-seven women leaders from Central America and Mexico gathered in Panama in September 2006 to reflect on their political contexts, personal histories, and the state of their movements. They saw gains in women's rights and freedoms being devastated.

Women in Pakistan face especially formidable obstacles in their search for better lives and opportunities for themselves and their children. Pursuit of economic activities that might better their conditions is constrained not only by cultural traditions but also by lack of access to even the very modest financial resources often needed for such pursuits and to training and support services that would help assure success.

Today by way of written communication the administration of Radio Cadena Voces, owned by Ricardo Maduro Joest, ex-President of Honduras, informed the feminist organisations Centro de Derechos de Mujeres (CDM) and the Centro de Estudios de la Mujer -Honduras (CEM-H), that their radio programmes “Tiempo de Hablar” and “La Bullaranga” would be closed.

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) and the Women's Action Forum (WAF) held a demonstration on Tuesday demanding the government repeal all discriminatory laws, especially the Hudood Ordinance. They said the unjustice being done in the name of the Hudood Ordinance was unbearable. They said that the law had badly affected society.

The Saharawi Human Rights Defensors condemn the Moroccan government's decision to deport human rights activists from the villages of Western Sahara and South of Morocco. In their appeal, they urge the Moroccan State to stop inmediately its decision to deport human rights activists, to reintegrate the human rights activists at work, to liberate all Saharawi political prisoners, and to judge all actors of human rights violations.

Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) is proud to announce the launch of its new website. SOAWR is a coalition of 30 civil society organizations across the continent working to ensure that the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa remains on the agenda of policy makers and to urge all African leaders to safeguard the rights of women through ratification and implementation of the Protocol.

VoiceOver is a project intended to make opinions from developing countries heard in the Netherlands. Only too often is Dutch international policy based on our views of the world without taking the perceptions from people outside our country into account. VoiceOver deals with a different issue each year.

The WomanStats Project is the most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world. The Project facilitates understanding the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation-states.