Winrock International: Maggie Range with Phoebe Omondi. Inspiring and empowering, this richly-illustrated training package includes a trainer’s manual and a free-standing pocket folder with a lively Participants’ Action Workbook, ready for easy photocopying, and a set of quotations, ready for posting. It is designed to train women leaders––individually and as a group––to move forward in their own professional development, build bridges with men, plan future gender activities and act as advocates for other women.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is currently meeting in New York to review the reports of States Parties on their compliance with CEDAW, -also known as "the Women’s Convention". At this session the Committee is considering the reports of eight States Parties –-Andorra, Guinea, Singapore, Guyana, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Sweden, and VietNam. For daily press releases, visit the CEDAW section of the website of the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (UN/DAW).

This new, free, 24 page publication, provides an introduction to the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention no 182, and explains its significance for Civil Society Organisations, in terms of the new opportunities it creates for them. The brochure is intended for use by broad human rights groups, trade unions, local government and professional bodies such as the police, lawyers and teachers. The brochure is informative, yet clear and easy to read. Published in English, French, Arabic and Spanish, it is intended to reach a wide audience and to provide practical measures to tackle the worst forms ofchild labour. The brochure can be downloaded in each language from Anti-Slavery's website or hard copies are available free from Pins Brown.