AWID Resource Net
Announcements / Issue 100
Wednesday, February 27, 2002

AWID celebrates its 100th issue of Resource Net ?Announcements?! A warm thank
you to all for your support and contributions. We continue to build ?another
world? with resolve, intelligence and hope.

Contents / Contenido / Contenu:

EVENTS / EVENTOS / ÉVÈNEMENTS

1) Teach-in on Gender and Macroeconomics: "Just Economics: Gender, Poverty
and Policies" / UNIFEM / New York, NY, USA / March 2, 2002.
2) Third International Congress on "Women, Work and Health" / Stockholm,
Sweden / June 2-5, 2002.
3) International Conference & Call for Papers: ?Gender, Sexuality and Law
II? / Keele University, UK / June 28-30, 2002.
4) Women's Studies Symposium & Call for Contributions: "Third Wave
Feminism" / West Lafayette, IN, USA / April 5-6, 2002.
5) Call for Proposals & Conference Announcement: ?Gender, Power and (In)
Justice? / Brasilia, Brazil / October 29-30, 2002 / Proposal deadline: March
1, 2002.
6) Conference Announcement: ?Heroes ? Mothers ? Victims: Living in Violent
Conflict ? Everyday Life of Women and Men in Palestine and Bosnia? / Germany
/ March 15-17, 2002.

ANNOUNCEMENTS / ANUNCIOS / ANNONCES

7) Training Course: ?Fundraising and Online Efficiency? / On-site.
8) Call for Papers for 2002 Summer Issue of ?Asian Women? / Deadline:
May 15, 2002.
9) Call for Contributions to Women?s Studies International Forum.

RESOURCES / RECURSOS / RESSOURCES

10) Anunciando dos Boletines Electrónico de la REPEM: "LA RED VA..." y
"Voices Rising".
11) New Publication (in Russian): ?Gendered Histories from Eastern Europe?
/ Editors: Elena Gapova, Al?mira Usmanova, Andres Peto.
12) New Report: ?Gender and Peacekeeping: Opportunities and Challenges to
Improve Practice? / International Alert.

NEWS / NOTICIAS / NOUVELLES

13) WIDE Position Paper: "United Nations Conference on Financing for
Development - Observations and Demands from a gender perspective" / February
2002 / By: Brita Neuhold.

* Una sinópsis en español se encuentra al principio de cada anuncio.
* Vous trouverez un résumé en français au début de chaque annonce.

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EVENTS / EVENTOS / ÉVÈNEMENTS
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1) Teach-in on Gender and Macroeconomics: "Just Economics: Gender, Poverty
and Policies" / UNIFEM / New York, NY, USA / March 2, 2002.

* Curso de un día para ONGs sobre 'Género y Macroeconomía' (en inglés) para
el 46º sesión de la Comisión del Estatus de la Mujer (CSW) de las Naciones
Unidas / Nueva York, NY / 2 de marzo del 2002. Para mayores detalles envíe un
correo electrónico a: [email protected], o visite el sitio Web:
http://www.undp.org/unifem/gender_macroec.html

* Cours de un jour pour ONGs sur 'le genre et macroéconomie' (en anglais)
pour le 46ième Session de la Commission sur le Status de la Femme des Nations
Unies / New York, NY / 2 mars, 2002. Pour tous renseignements, veuillez
envoyer un courriel à: [email protected], ou consulter la page Web:
http://www.undp.org/unifem/gender_macroec.html

The United Nations Development Fund for Women & The NGO Committee on the
Status of Women a Committee of the Conference of Non-Governmental
Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations
invite you to learn more about how economic policies affect women's lives and
livelihoods at a Teach-In for NGOs:
"Just Economics: Gender, Poverty and Policies".
9:00am - 1:30pm, 2 March 2002.
(Registration starts at 8:30am - Please note Space Limited)
Soka Gakkai International (SGI)7 East 15th Street (between 5th Ave. and Union
Square Park West).

The 46th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has
identified "eradicating poverty, including through the empowerment of women
throughout their life cycle in a globalizing world" as a main theme of this
years' session.

Join leaders in the field of gender and economics in an interactive learning
session on the gender dimensions of macroeconomics, trade liberalization and
international financial issues.

Featuring:
- Caren Grown, Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth team, Int'l Center for
Research on Women
- Radhika Balakrishnan, Associate Professor of Economics, Marymount
Manhattan College
- Gerald Epstein, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts
- Yassine Fall, Regional Programme Director UNIFEM East Africa

For more information, contact:
Meagan Bovell, UNIFEM at 212-906-6536
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.undp.org/unifem/gender_macroec.html

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2) Third International Congress on "Women, Work and Health" / Stockholm,
Sweden / June 2-5, 2002.

* III Congreso Internacional: "Mujer, Trabajo y Salud" / Estocolmo, Suecia /
2 - 5 de junio, 2002. Informaciones sobre participación y posibilidad de
becas (para personas que procedan de países en desarrollo) en: [email protected] o
http://www.niwl.se/wwh.

* IIIième Congrès International: ?Femmes, travail et santé? / Stockholm,
Suède / 2-5 juin, 2002. Renseignements sur participation ou possibilité de
bourse (pour personnes provenant de pays en voie de développement) au:
[email protected] ou http://www.niwl.se/wwh.

This international and interdisciplinary congress will form a meeting place
for researchers and practitioners, as well as trade union representatives,
representatives for governments and the social partners and feminist
activists. The meeting place is meant to stimulate open and critical
discussions, to share practical experience and scholarly work on women?s
working and living conditions and their health.

Keynote speakers will present the state of art on science and practice. For
each congress theme, one practitioner and one researcher will give a keynote
speech. Others will give presentations on actions and strategies in the past,
the present and the future. A number of thematic sessions will be arranged
for the presentation of papers and posters.

The Congresses on Women, Work & Health were initiated in 1996 in Barcelona
with the aim of giving women access to information and resources that would
enable them to achieve better health and a better quality of life. The
disregard of women?s health problems and of their working conditions and
research on women?s health and work were the central topics of the first
congress.

The second Congress, held in Rio in 1999, provided greater visibility for the
production of knowledge in the field by identifying recent studies, trends
and gaps, updating indicators and proposing theoretical and methodological
innovations. The event also helped to spread awareness of an inter-related
gender, work and health approach throughout Brazil and Latin America.

Mrs Mona Sahlin, Minister of the Ministry for Industry, Employment and
Communications is the official representative of the Swedish government.

Information on the congress will be published continuously on our web site
www.niwl.se/wwh, where you will also find articles and interviews related to
the congress themes. You may also contact us at: [email protected].

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3) International Conference & Call for Papers: ?Gender, Sexuality and Law II?
/ Keele University, UK / June 28-30, 2002.

* Conferencia Internacional & Solicitud de Ensayos (en inglés): ?Género,
Sexualidad y Ley II?. Esta conferencia objeta crear un espacio de diálogo y
de diseminación de investigación para todas y todos que trabajan la temática
del género, la sexualidad y la ley. Tendrá lugar en la Universidad de Keele,
RU, del 28-30 de junio, 2002. Envíe resumen del ensayo al:
[email protected]. Toda información se encuentra en:
http://www.Keele.ac.uk/depts/la/GSL2002.htm.

* Conférence internationale & demande d?articles (en anglais): ?Genre,
sexualité et loi II?. Cette conférence vise a crée une espace d?échange et
de dissémination de recherche pour toutes celles / tous ceux qui travaillent
les thèmes du genre, la sexualité et la loi. Elle aura lieu à l?Université de
Keele, RU, du 28-30 juin, 2002. Veuillez envoyer résumé d?article au:
[email protected]. Pour tous renseignements, consulter la page Web:
http://www.Keele.ac.uk/depts/la/GSL2002.htm

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Martha Fineman (to be confirmed), Shohini Ghosh, Didi Herman, Amina Mama,
Selma Sevenhuijsen, Carl Stychin, Francisco Valdes, Carole Vance.

In 1998, over 200 scholars from around the world, gathered at Keele
University for the first Gender, Sexuality and Law conference. Under the
theme 'Reflections; New Directions', the conference explored the construction
of gender and sexuality as it is situated at the intersection of multiple
bodies of knowledge. The conference theme was also reflective in nature,
encouraging scholars working in the gender, sexuality and law field to
consider how the literature was unfolding and where it might develop in the
future. The result was a tremendous success, with a dynamic range of scholars
presenting new, innovative, and far-reaching research from across disciplines
and across the world.
Rather than a single, over-arching theme, this conference seeks to provide a
forum at which scholars who work broadly in the gender, sexuality and law
area can gather for the dissemination of research and the exploration of
ideas.

The conference is open to people working within feminist theory, queer theory
and critical race theory, or who are otherwise exploring, challenging and
interrogating the relationship between law and the construction of the sexed
and gendered subject.

CONFERENCE PANELS
The conference welcomes theoretically informed papers on any topic. In
particular, conference themes include:

- Risk, Governance and Insecurity;
- Politics of HIV/AIDS
- Race, Religion and Ethnicity
- Global Subjectivities and Citizenships
- Rethinking Criminal Justice
- Rights and New Constitutionalisms
- Media, Culture, and Representation
- Recentering Class and Capitalism
- Health Care and Medicalisation
- New Technologies and the Body
- Social Activism/Social Change
- Psychoanalysis
- Gender and Development
- Legal Education
- Children, Sexuality and Gender
- Femininities/Masculinities
- Sexual/Gender Minorities and Social Inclusion
- Labour In/exclusivity

HOW TO APPLY Abstracts of papers, not exceeding 200 words, should be sent to
the GSL Group AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!. Abstracts can be sent by email to:
[email protected] or by mail to:
The Law Department, Keele University, Staffordshire
ST5 5BG, United Kingdom
Tel: (01782) 58 3218;
Fax (01782) 58 3228

For more information, please contact us at the above or visit our web site
at:http://www.Keele.ac.uk/depts/la/GSL2002.htm

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4) Women's Studies Symposium & Call for Contributions: "Third Wave Feminism"
/ West Lafayette, IN, USA / April 5-6, 2002.

* Simposio de Estudios de la Mujer & Solicitud de Contribuciones (en inglés):
?Tercer Ola del Feminismo?. Se llevará a cabo en la Universidad de Purdue,
IN, EE-UU, el 5-6 de abril, 2002. Invitan entregas de ensayos académicos
además de contribuciones diversas e innovadoras. Detalles se encuentran en el
sitio Web de la Universidad: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/womens-
studies/.

* Symposium d?études de la femme & demande de contributions (en anglais):
?Troixième Vague du Féminisme?. Il se déroulera à l?Université de Purdue, IN,
É-U, du 5-6 avril, 2002. On invite la soumission d?articles académiques et
aussi des contributions diverses et innovatrice. Tous renseignements se
trouvent sur le site Web de l?Université:
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/womens-studies/.

The 5th biannual symposium, "Third Wave Feminism," will be held April
5-6, 2002. We invite abstracts or descriptions of projects that reflect
on-or do-Third Wave feminist work. In addition to standard academic
papers, we invite innovative and diverse contributions, including
performance pieces, installations, 'zines and other computer or
web-based resources, sound and visual artwork or collages, as well as
other kinds of writing, e.g. stories, poetry. Presentations or
performance pieces should be no more than 20 minutes in length.

Guest speakers will be Jennifer Drake, Assistant Professor of English
and Women's Studies, Indiana State University, and Leslie Heywood,
Associate Professor of English, SUNY Binghampton, the co-editors of
Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism, who will be speaking
on "It's All About the Benjamins: Economic Determinants of that Third
Wave Feminist Thang." Erika Lopez, author of Flaming Iguanas: An
Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing, They Call Me Mad Dog, and Hoochie
Momma: The Other White Meat, is our third guest speaker.

Some possible themes for presentations include:

- third wave feminism and queer theory
- defining / performing third wave feminism
- third wave and/as global feminism
- third wave and cyberspace
- bridging third wave and second wave feminisms-does a gap exist?
- third wave feminism and responses to terrorism and September 11th
- third wave pedagogies and classrooms
- becoming third wave, or realizing you've always been

Please send a 250-500 word abstract or description to:

Pat Boling, Chair, Program Committee
Women's Studies Program, LAEB 1361
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1361

Details about the symposium are available on the Purdue Women's Studies
Website: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/womens-studies/

* Cross-posted from ?Genderstudies? Mailing list: [email protected]

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5) Call for Proposals & Conference Announcement: ?Gender, Power and (In)
Justice? / Brasilia, Brazil / October 29-30, 2002 / Proposal deadline: March
1, 2002.

* Solicitud de Ensayos & Anuncio de Conferencia (inglés, portugués y
español): ?Género, Poder e (In)Justicia?. Se pide ensayos sobre el tema de
los enfoques feministas a la bioética. La conferencia tendrá lugar en
Brasilia, Brasil del 29-30 de octubre, 2002. Plazo para entrega de
proposiciones: 1° de marzo, 2002. Para más información consulte el sitio Web:
http://www.msu.edu/~hlnelson/fab/index.html.

* Demande d?articles et annonce de conférence (en anglais, portuguais et
espagnol): ?Genre, pouvoir et (in)justice?. On demande des articles sur le
thème des approches féministes à la bioéthique. La conférence aura lieu au
Brasilia, Brézil du 29-30 octobre, 2002. Date limite pour soumettre une
proposition est le 1er mars, 2002. Tous detailles se trouvent au:
http://www.msu.edu/~hlnelson/fab/index.html.

The FAB conference will be held in conjunction with the Sixth World Congress
of the International Association of Bioethics October
30-November 4, Brasilia, Brazil.

We are seeking proposals for papers, panels, interactive sessions, and other
forms of presentation relevant to the conference theme
and on other topics that fall under the general heading of Feminist
Approaches to Bioethics. Papers should run approximately 20
minutes. Panels and other sessions may run a maximum of 90 minutes.

PROPOSAL FORMAT:

Name, affiliation and contact information of proposed presenter(s), including
e-mail
Title of session
Brief abstract (150 words)
Brief outline of proposed paper/panel/session (1-2 pages) outlining either
(a) reasoning and key conclusions (for papers) or (b)
motivation, organizational structure, and presenters (for other types of
presentations)

SUBMISSION TO: Send electronic copies of your proposal to BOTH Co-organizers
Debora Diniz ([email protected]) and Susan
Sherwin ([email protected]) via email

LANGUAGES: Submissions may be made in English, Portuguese, or Spanish

FUNDING: A very limited amount of funding is available on the basis of need
from the Audre Lorde Fund. See FAB website:
http://www.msu.edu/~hlnelson/fab/index.html (Grants page) for details.

* Cross-posted from ?Genderstudies? Mailing list: [email protected]

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6) Conference Announcement: ?Heroes ? Mothers ? Victims: Living in Violent
Conflict ? Everyday Life of Women and Men in Palestine and Bosnia? / Germany
/ March 15-17, 2002.

* Conferencia ? Organisaciones de mujeres comparten sus experiencias: ?Héroes
? Madres ? Víctimas: Viviendo en Conflicto Violento? / Alemania / 15-17 de
marzo, 2002. Para mayores detalles, contáctese con Birgit Schatz en:
[email protected].

* Conférence ? Organisations de femmes partagent leurs expériences: ?Héros ?
Mères ? Victimes: vivant auprès du conflit violent? / Allemagne / 15-17 mars,
2002. Pour tous renseignements, veuillez contacter Birgit Schatz au:
[email protected].

WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES
15-17 March 2002
Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll, Germany

Long term conflict situations lead to a militarization of society, with
substantial impact on everyday life and on the division of roles between men
and women. Palestine and Bosnia serve as examples to illustrate how women are
assigned certain roles such as the mourner, the victim or the martyr's
mother. Distorting images in the media contribute to an increase in tension.
We do not know much about traumatic experiences and long term psychological
effects on women and men, or about changing gender relations in societies
where fear, violence and oppression is part of ordinary life. This
conference, aims to:

- understand, what it means to live in a situation of constant crisis
- critically assess the role of the media representation
- enable a dialogue among the representatives from the regions
- develop recommendations for local women's organisations as well as actors
in Europe relating to development work, the media and solidarity action.

The conference will be bilingual (German and English), with simultaneous
facilities in the plenary. Due to the difficult situation in Palestine, there
is always a risk that the Palestinian participants might not be allowed to
travel. In such a case, the programme will be reworked accordingly.

For further information, contact: Mrs. Birgit Schatz:
Tel: +49 7164 79217;
Fax: +49 7164 / 791211;
Email: [email protected]

* Cross-posted from CODEP e-newsletter

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ANNOUNCEMENTS / ANUNCIOS / ANNONCES
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7) Training Course: ?Fundraising and Online Efficiency? / On-site.

* Curso de Formación para aumentar la capacidad en conseguir financiamiento y
eficiencia en-linea. El Threshold Foundation ofrece cursos in-situ para ONGs.
Para más información, visite el sitio Web: www.dieschwelle.de o contáctese
con Burkhard Luber en: [email protected].

* Cours de formation sur la recueil de fonds et l?efficacité en-ligne. Le
Threshold Foundation offre des cours sur-site aux ONGs. Pour tous
renseignements, veuillez consulter la page Web: www.dieschwelle.de ou
contacter Burkhard Luber au: [email protected].

The Threshold Foundation offers courses to improve the work of NGOs working
in the fields of Human Rights, Citizens 4 Diplomacy, Environment Protection
and Conflict Management. Upcoming courses include Fundraising and On-Line
Efficiency. The specific contents of each course are fine-tuned in
communication between the NGO and trainer, Burkhard Luber, prior to the
course. The training period is one weekend. The course is held on-site at the
location of the NGO.

Training costs:
The trainees' organisation covers the cost of travel, accommodation and meals
for the trainer to come from Germany to the site of the organisation, where
the workshop will be held.

Royalties:
Not fixed, but flexible according to the financial capacities of
each trainees' organisation.

NGOs interested in such a training can contact Burkhard Luber for more
details.

Training Topics:
- Fundraising: Efficient Fundraising Strategies; How to Write Applications;
Whom to Contact/How to find Fund-Givers; Money from the European Union; On-
Line Fundraising.

- On-Line Efficiency: On-line Tools for NGOs; Advanced Search Strategies;
Countering censorship; Virtual Diplomacy; On-Line Public Relations and
Journalism; Human Rights and Environment Promotion on the Web.

The training is executed by Dr Burkhard Luber from the Threshold Foundation.
Burkhard Luber has worked with a wide range of NGOs abroad for more then two
decades and is editor of the "Grassroots Good News", an on-line NGO-magazine
for conflict management, human rights and environment issues with 3300+
receivers worldwide.

For further information about the Threshold Foundation or about the training
courses, see: www.dieschwelle.de or contact Burkhard Luber at email:
[email protected]

* Cross-posted from CODEP E-mail Newsletter:

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8) Call for Papers for 2002 Summer Issue of ?Asian Women? / Deadline:
May 15, 2002.

* Solicitud de ensayos (en inglés) para la tirada de Verano de la revista
?Asian Women? sobre temas relacionados a los estudios de género. Plazo: 15 de
mayo, 2002. Para más informes, envíe un correo electrónico a:
[email protected].

* Demande d?articles (en anglais) pour le numéro d?été de la revue ?Asian
Women? sur des thèmes reliés aux études de genre. Date limite est le 15 mai,
2002. Pour des renseignements supplémentaires, veuillez envoyer un courriel
à: [email protected].

Asian Women seeks submissions for recent gender issue such as eco-feminism,
health, women and bio-technology, women and history, men?s studies and other
relevant themes in gender studies, slated for publication in Summer 2002 and
Winter 2002.

Asian Women, an interdisciplinary journal covering various Women?s Studies,
Men?s Studies and Gender Studies themes, hopes to share intelligent original
papers as well as case studies with you. Also, Any contributions of
theoretical papers, regional reports, or case studies based on feminist
studies and Asian studies will be welcomed. The editors welcome submissions
that are based on either collaborative or independent scholarship. They also
welcome submissions from a wide variety of Asia and other countries.

Contributors need to send their manuscripts to the Research Institute of
Asian Women any time. However, for the prompt evaluation procedure and
publication for 2002 Summer issue, contributors should send their manuscripts
by 15th of May 2002, and for 2002 Winter issue, by 15th of October 2002.

For more information, write to the Managing Editor, Research Institute of
Asian Women, Sookmyung Women?s Univesity, 53-12, Chungpa-dong 2-ka, Youngsan-
ku, Seoul, Korea 140-742 or e-mail to [email protected]

* Cross-posted from: [email protected].

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9) Call for Contributions to Women?s Studies International Forum.

* Solicitud de Contribuciones para el ?Foro Internacional de Estudios de la
Mujer?, una revista bi-mensual que apoya a la distribución e intercambio de
investigación feminista. Mayores informes se encuentren en:
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/issn/02775395.

* Demande de contributions pour le ?Forum international d?études de la
femme?, une revue bi-mensuelle qui appuie la distribution et l?échange de
recherche féministe. Tous renseignements se trouvent au:
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/issn/02775395.

Women's Studies International Forum (formerly Women's Studies
International Quarterly , established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid
the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the
multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist
research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a
feminist forum for discussion and debate.

The journal seeks to critique and reconceptualize existing knowledge, to
examine and re-evaluate the manner in which knowledge is produced and
distributed, and to assess the implications this has for women's lives.

We seek contributions from people, individually or collectively, from
different countries and different backgrounds, who are engaged in
feminist research inside or outside formal educational institutions. We
welcome a variety of approaches and resources through the whole range of
disciplines: papers geared toward action-oriented research as well as those
which address theoretical methodological issues; and we encourage historical
reassessments of the lives and works of women. We urge all contributors both
to acknowledge the cultural and social specifics of their particular
approach, and to draw out these issues in their articles.

We also invite contributions to FEMINIST FORUM, the news and views
supplement which appears in each issue of the journal. FEMINIST FORUM is
aimed at promoting a network among feminists which cuts across national
boundaries; we welcome conference reports and announcements, calls for
papers, notices of new publications and reports, contacts, etc., sent in by
individuals or groups in the international feminist community.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/issn/02775395

* Cross-posted from ?Genderstudies? Mailing List: [email protected]

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RESOURCES / RECURSOS / RESSOURCES
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10) Anunciando dos Boletines Electrónico de la REPEM: "LA RED VA..." y
"Voices Rising".

* Announcing REPEM?s Weekly Electronic Bulletin (in Spanish and Portuguese):
?LA RED VA...?. Also their monthly english bulletin entitled: ?Voices
Rising?. Both used as a tool to disseminate events, campaigns and actions
within the women?s movement in Latin America. To subscribe to "LA RED
VA...", please send an e-mail to: [email protected]. To subscribe to
"Voices Rising", please send an e-mail to: [email protected]. Contact REPEM
at: [email protected]

* Annonce du Bulletin Électronique Semanaire de REPEM (en espagnol et
Portuguais): ?LA RED VA...?. Aussie leur bulletin mensuel en anglais intitulé
?Voices Rising?. Les deux représentent des outils pour disséminer des
évenements, campagnes, et actions dans le cadre du mouvement de la femme en
Amérique Latine. Pour s?inscrire à "LA RED VA...", veuillez envoyer un
courriel à: [email protected]. Pour s'inscrire à "Voices Rising", veuillez
envoyer un courriel à [email protected]. Contacter REPEM au:
[email protected]

LA RED VA... es un boletin publicado semanalmente en correo electronico, en
español y portugues por la REPEM, (Red de Educacion Popular Entre Mujeres de
America Latina y el Caribe).
Esta revista ha demostrado desde octubre de 1997 ser una herramienta
efectiva para socializar y democratizar la información, cuando las noticias
apremian, para la diseminación de eventos, campañas y acciones del movimiento
de mujeres.
LA RED VA llega a cerca de 1000 direcciones y se replican en diferentes
redes de America Latina y el Caribe.
LA RED VA incluye diferentes temas (educación, campañas, becas, trabajo,
experiencias). No incluimos lo que aparece en Radio o TV ya que tienen
suficiente promoción.
Los/as lectores/as son las personas que principalmente contribuyen con
información, la cual es después seleccionada e incluida en cada número. Todas
las actividades de la REPEM a nivel global, regional, nacional y local tienen
un lugar especial en el boletín para su diseminación.

Para subscribirse, mande un correo electrónico a: [email protected].

REPEM también contribuye con la creación y diseminación del boletín
electrónico mensual en Inglés, con el objetivo de compartir información en
Inglés sobre la región latinoamericana. Esta revista llamada "Voices
Rising" se convirtió en un buen medio para interconectar el mundo inglés y
español, lo que ha culminado muchas veces en oportunidades de articulación
entre REPEM y otras organizaciones de mujeres, especialmente con DAWN y la
Oficina de Género del ICAE.

Para subscribirse, mande un correo electrónico a: [email protected]

Más recientemente, en particular para los procesos de revisión de Beijing y
Copenhague, LA RED VA y Voices Rising han promoviendo la diseminación de lo
que estaba ocurriendo, enviando reportes diarios escritos por representantes
de REPEM. La información y el conocimiento fueron enriquecidos por la
contribución de otras redes globales que trabajaron en este proceso con
REPEM, DAWN / GEO/ICAE y WEDO.

REPEM es una Asociacion Civil sin fines de lucro, creada en 1981.
Agrupa a 140 ONG ya mujeres activistas y academicas de los paises de
America Latina y el Caribe.
Su proposito fundamental es fortalecer y consolidar procesos de
articulacion equilibrada entre lo nacional, regional y global para
contribuir al logro de la justicia social, economica y de genero.

EJES DE TRABAJO
Desarrolla programas y proyectos en relacion a tres ejes:
- Educacion, genero y economia popular
- Educacion, genero y ciudadania
- Fortalecimiento institucional

Direccion:
REPEM
Colonia 2069
11200 Montevideo - Uruguay
Tel/fax: ++5982 4030599 - 4080089
E-mail: [email protected] - [email protected]
web: www.repem.org.uy (en construccion)

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11) New Publication (in Russian): ?Gendered Histories from Eastern Europe? /
Editors: Elena Gapova, Al?mira Usmanova, Andres Peto.

* Nueva Publicación (en ruso) sobre la historia del género en Europa del Este
/ Editores: Elena Gapova, Al?mira Usmanova, Andres Peto. El libro está
disponible en: www.eastview.com.

* Nouvelle publication (en russe) sur l?histoire du genre en Europe de l?Est
/ Éditeurs: Elena Gapova, Al?mira Usmanova, Andres Peto. Le livre est
disponible au: www.eastview.com.

A new publication on East European women's history is now available:
Gendernye istorii Vostochnoy Evropy (Gendered histories from Eastern Europe)
Eds. Elena Gapova, Al'mira Usmanova, Andrea Peto.
Language: Russian; 416pp.
Publisher: European Humanities University, Minsk

The book results from the 1999 international conference "Writing Women's
History and History of Gender in Countries in Transition" which was hosted by
the Centre for Gender Studies at European Humanities University in Minsk. The
volume comprises texts by 29 authors from 13 nations of Central and Western
Europe and USA and invokes that part of East European history which can be
described as the history of personal as the political or the political as
personal. The book's topics include: oral history: memory, trauma, narrative;
imagined communities: gender and nation; the miserable and the powerless:
practices of exclusion; gender and law; contemporary history of the gendered
individual: rites of transition.

The book will be available in the US through East View Publications
(www.eastview.com).

* Cross-posted from ?Genderstudies? Mailing List: [email protected]

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12) New Report: ?Gender and Peacekeeping: Opportunities and Challenges to
Improve Practice? / International Alert.

* Nuevo Informe de Internaional Alert (en inglés): ?Género y Procesos de
Pacificación: Oportunidades y Desafíos para Mejorar la Práctica?. Está
disponible en el sitio Web: www.womenbuildingpeace.org o por correo
electrónico ? contáctese con Bethan Cobley en: bcobley@international-
alert.org.

* Nouveau Rapport de International Alert (en anglais): ?Genre et le maintien
de la paix: opportunités et défis pour améliorer la pratique?. Il est
disponible au site Web: www.womenbuildingpeace.org, ou par courriel de Bethan
Cobley au: [email protected].

The briefing provides practical recommendations for a gender-sensitive
approach to multidimensional PSOs within the context of implementing United
Nations Resolution 1325. It is intended as a resource for policy-makers and
implementing agents, and is being disseminated to both military and civilian
agencies within the United Nations, European Union and civil organisations.

The record of peace support operations has revealed that conflict situations
have been exacerbated when they fail to include the needs, experiences and
perspectives of women - who are often most affected by violence and who are
key agents in facilitating and sustaining peace and reconciliation processes.
The inclusion of balanced gender perspectives in peace support operations is
critical to ensuring that the needs of local populations are met and
understood.

International Alert believes that a gender perspective can make a positive
difference to peace support operations and that gender awareness training is
vital to inform the composition and deployment of civilian and military
personnel. Working with military and peacekeeping institutions and drawing
upon their expertise, they hope to contribute to this debate and to further
encourage governments and troop contributing states to integrate gender into
their approaches as a matter of urgency and efficiency.

The report is available from the International Alert Website at:
www.womenbuildingpeace.org or by contacting Bethan Cobley at International
Alert on email: [email protected].

* Cross-posted from CODEP e-mail newsletter Website: www.codep.org.uk

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NEWS / NOTICIAS / NOUVELLES
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13) WIDE Position Paper: "United Nations Conference on Financing for
Development - Observations and Demands from a gender perspective" / February
2002 / By: Brita Neuhold.

* Documento de de Posición de WIDE sobre la conferencia de las Naciones
Unidas sobre el Financiación del Desarrollo ? ?Observaciones y Demandas desde
la Perspectiva del Género?, por: Brita Neuhold. Disponble en-linea en:
http://www.eurosur.org/wide/UN/BN_FfD.feb02.htm.

* Document de Base de WIDE sur la conférence des Nations Unies sur le
Financement du Développement ? ?Observations et réclamations, de la
perspective du genre?, par: Brita Neuhold. Elle est disponible on-line au:
http://www.eurosur.org/wide/UN/BN_FfD.feb02.htm.

"... The draft Outcome Document contains some rhetoric allusions to a more
equitable and ecologically sustainable view of development - with even some
references to the importance of taking gender issues into
consideration -, but generally speaking, it is a blueprint to facilitate
progress and profit for those who are already at the controls of economic and
political power. The concept of prevailing development strategies is never
really questioned, development is equaled with economic growth and - as a
delegate of the Group of 77 pointed out during the October PrepCom to an
increasing degree with globalization. With a globalization that is not gender
sensitive, ecologically sustainable and inclusive of civil society, but
directed by the economic interests of Transnational Corporations and hard-
core capitalist groups in rich countries. With a globalization which
considers Foreign Direct Investments as well as speedy commercialization and
privatization of all life on earth as the winning formula to ensure freedom
from poverty and quality of life all over the planet... ..."

Brita Neuhold's Paper gives an excellent analysis of the outcome document for
Monterrey, points out some interesting alternative positions and includes
useful recommendations from the gender perspective.

The paper is available on-line at:
http://www.eurosur.org/wide/UN/BN_FfD.feb02.htm.

For more informationa about WIDE, please visit their Website at:
www.eurosur.org/wide.

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