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The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign is a Success!

September 14, 2009: The GEAR Campaign is pleased that the General Assembly expressed strong and unanimous support in adopting a resolution today that will enable the creation of the new gender equality entity to be headed by a new Under Secretary-General (USG).

Women and their allies from around the world have been advocating for three years for a stronger better resourced agency on gender equality and women’s empowerment, and look forward to its creation early in 2010—during the fifteen anniversary year of the historic UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

For more information, please visit CWGL's GEAR page.

Announcements

November 11, 2009: Claiming Justice, Claiming Rights: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders is now available in Arabic
November 6, 2009: Demand action on CEDAW now! sponsored by WIDE
November 4, 2009:CWGL signed on to the United States Working Group on Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
October 13, 2009: Elinor Ostrom breaks the Nobel mould by Kevin Gallagher, Guardian, UK
September 30, 2009: CWGL statement at Human Rights Council at annual session on gender integration
September 24, 2009: Letter from new Executive Director, Radhika Balakrishnan
September 18, 2009: Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, was interviewed by Jeb Sharp of PRI's The World. To listen, visit The World.
September 14, 2009: CWGL GEAR Press Release
September 14, 2009: U.N. Approves Long-Awaited New Women's Agency by Thalif Deen, IPS
September 5, 2009: U.N. May Shelve Creation of New Women's Body by Thalif Deen, IPS
August 25, 2009: Statement on women and youth health and rights, promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights in US foreign policy, signed by 50 HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health rights, human rights and faith-based organizations
August 13, 2009: Statement in Support of Mary Robinson, Presidential Medal of Honor Awardee, by the Women's Human Rights Defenders International Coalition
July 17, 2009: Iran - Women Human Rights Defender Shadi Sadr Arrested
July 17, 2009: Invitation for applications for fellowships with the Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program for women's rights lawyers in U.S. and in Africa
July 16, 2009: Human rights activist Natalia Estemirova murdered in Russia
July 7, 2009: PhD Scholarship in Refugee Youth Identity and Wellbeing, La Trobe Refugee Research Centre, La Trobe University
July 2, 2009: India Court Decriminalises Gay Sex: Delhi’s High court ruled that homosexual sex among consenting adults is not a crime and read down the infamous Section 377, which penalized people with imprisonment for consensual same sex sexual relations. This ruling marks an historic moment not only for Indian citizens but for LGBTQ and sexual rights activists worldwide.
June 2009: A Human Rights Response to the Economic Crisis in the U.S. written by Radhika Balakrishnan, James Heintz, and Stephanie Seguino
May 19, 2009: We Mark the Passing of Helvi Sipila, International Women's Rights Activist, Anne S. Walker, International Women's Tribune Centre
May 19, 2009: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Theme Announcement
May 12, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in We are the ones, by Rosemary Belcher, openDemocracy
April 29, 2009: Listen Up: UN Must Hear Women on Violence by Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, published in On The Issues Magazine, Spring 2009 edition
April 20, 2009: A Feminist Civil Society Response to the UN Secretary General’s Campaign to End Violence against Women, Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership
April 7, 2009: WLUML statement on the Combating Defamation of Religions resolution
April 2, 2009: The Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR) announces the 2nd CSBR Sexuality Institute
April 2, 2009: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice accepting applications for the 2009 Women Peacemakers program
March 30, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in DEVELOPMENT: Global Coalition Backs New U.N. Gender Body, by Thalif Deen, IPS
March 26, 2009: CWGL Announces New Executive Director
March 12, 2009: Sign the declaration Africa for Women's Rights
March 10, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, interviewed in Women's Movements on GRITtv with Laura Flanders
March 8, 2009: WHRDIC International Women's Day Statement
February 28, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in Highland Park mayor to lead U.S. delegation to U.N. panel, by Tom Hayden, Star-Ledger
February 26, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in RIGHTS: U.N. Flunking on Gender Empowerment, Women Say, by Thalif Deen, IPS-Inter Press Service
February 26, 2009: CWGL Events at the 53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
January 29, 2009: International Training on LGBT and Human Rights sponsored by RFSL-The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights
January 28, 2009: CWGL endorses WLUML letter about the harassment of women’s human rights defender, Ghada Jamsheer
January 21, 2009: Call for Submissions: The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI): 6th round of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by February 27, 2009
January 21, 2009: Call for application: Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery by March 31, 2009
January 13, 2009: Call for stories in celebration of the 30th anniversary of CEDAW
January 12, 2009: URGENT: Women Human Rights Defender Disfigured and Murdered
January 7, 2009: Middle Eastern Women's Issues, Debates, and Priorities Special Issue - NWSA Journal - National Women Studies Association, Call for papers by January 16, 2009
January 5, 2009: Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Coordinating Group requests nominations for experts to join the SVRI Coordinating Group, send to svri@mrc.ac.za by January 27, 2009
January 5, 2009: CWGL signs onto WLP's demand for protection and guarantee of Shirin Ebadi's civil and political rights

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