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November 2007
Showing solidarity
Stopping sexual bullying
September 2007
Climate for change
Dame Anita Roddick 1942-2007
August 2007
Peru earthquake
July 2007
No religious case for female genital mutilation
Egypt bans FGM
June 2007
Afghan partner lauded in The Sun
Egyptian partners call for criminalisation of FGM
April 2007
World Bank calls for gender equality
Eritrea bans Female Genital Mutilation
March 2007
Celebrating Women exhibition at Hoopers Gallery
WOMANKIND calls for UN action to implement Resolution 1325
December 2006
Nomakuze Solwande wins posthumous International Service Human Rights award
November 2006
Women in Nicaragua lose any right to abortion
September 2006
Safia Amajan, Afghanistan women's rights defender, killed
August 2006
WOMANKIND acts to protect women's rights in Afghanistan
July 2006
WOMANKIND against female genital mutilation
May 2006
Read our letter to Gordon Brown
WOMANKIND submits recommendations to DFID
WOMANKIND is sad to report the death of Nomazuke Solwande
WOMANKIND partner elected to office in Afghanistan
International Women's Day 2006
WOMANKIND launches TV and cinema ad
WOMANKIND launches series of hard hitting press ads
WOMANKIND partner appointed to Senate in Zimbabwe
November 2005
Trustee conquers coastline for WOMANKIND
August 2005
Interview with Esther Poku-Mensah
April 2005
WOMANKIND & Commission for Africa
January 2005
December 2004
October 2004
Afghan Women Need Security Safeguards Before Election
WOMANKIND Broadcasts On US Radio
Showing solidarity
Women across the globe are joining together for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.Stopping sexual bullying
For the last three years, WOMANKIND has led research into the prevalence of violence against young women in UK schools - and the accompanying attitudes and beliefs.At a special evening event on Thursday 29 November - held as part of the international '16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence' campaign - we will be launching the findings and recommendations, which have important implications for government, local authorities, and teachers.
The Minister for Equality, Barbara Follet MP, will be speaking, and young people from a participating school will launch a short film showing WOMANKIND's innovative work in the classroom.
Earlier that day, the same Central London venue will be hosting REFUGE's 5th Annual Domestic Violence Conference.
To find out more and to reserve your place at this Central London event, e-mail kara@womankind.org.uk or call 020 7549 0374 before Weds 21 November.
08 November 2007
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Climate for change
Heads of State are meeting at the UN between 22-23 September at what's billed as a crucial climate-change event.WOMANKIND and other women's organisations are sending a strong message to them that women must be on the agenda.
Women are disproportionately affected by natural disasters ? highlighted for WOMANKIND by our ongoing work with survivors of the tsunami and the recent Peru earthquake.
They are more likely to die than men, are at increased risk of violence, and often have little say in reconstruction efforts ? yet this continues to be ignored by governments and many NGOs in relief and reconstruction efforts.
The Declaration on Climate Change and Gender Equality calls on governments to analyse and identify gender-specific impacts and protection measures related to floods, droughts, heatwaves, diseases, and other environmental changes and disasters.
19 September 2007
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Dame Anita Roddick 1942-2007
Anita Roddick, long-time supporter of WOMANKIND, died suddenly on 10 September. Read our tribute.12 September 2007
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Peru earthquake
WOMANKIND is providing survivors of the 15 August earthquake with food, medicines and shelter. Find out more.21 August 2007
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In WOMANKIND's new report Islamic and Christian leaders demolish the myth that FGM is rooted in religious teachings.
Read our practical strategies for communities and NGOs to work with governments to eradicate FGM worldwide, forever.Return to the top of the page
WOMANKIND and Najia Haneefi, who stayed to work for women under the Taliban, are featured in The Sun. Read the article in full.
20 June 2007
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The public outrage following the tragic death of a girl undergoing female genital mutilation has led to Egypt finally closing a legal loophole.
The announcement on 29 June came hot on the heels of WOMANKIND partner ECWR's (Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights) demand for criminalisation following the death of 12-year-old Bodor Ahmed Shaker on the operating table of a private clinic.
'Female circumcision is banned by law and by all medical regulations,' the Health Minister Hatem al-Gabali said. 'Every doctor and member of the medical profession, in public or private establishments, is banned from performing the procedure.'
2 July 2007
Bodor Ahmed Shaker, a child from the village of Maghagha in Minya, has died while undergoing female genital mutilation in a private clinic.
'Although Bodor was not the first and will not be the last victim of this dangerous practice,' said WOMANKIND partners ECWR - Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights, 'decision-makers continue to ignore this violation of the rights of young women and girls, whose body parts are cut without any legal, medical or religious justification.'
ECWR is demanding that:
- Decision-makers in Egypt adopt a law that criminalises FGM
- the Doctors' Syndicate punishes doctors who commit this crime
- the Minister of Health commits to preventing FGM and closing clinics and hospitals that continue to practise it
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WOMANKIND calls for UN action to implement Resolution 1325
On International Women's Day, WOMANKIND issued an urgent call to new UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
In a letter, written with 13 other organisations working on women, peace and security issues, WOMANKIND emphasised that there can be no lasting peace without women's full participation.
We also call for the adoption of recent recommendations for a strengthened UN gender-equality architecture.
Read the letter in full (MS Word document)
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The international community cannot remain silent as Women in Nicaragua lose any right to abortion
Read WOMANKIND's joint response with One World Action and the Central America Women's Network to this alarming situation in Nicaragua (scroll down to the second letter).
Read the Guardian article 'Nicaragua votes to outlaw abortion', which prompted the above response.Return to the top of the page
