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Today's Features
Pregnant women are reflected in a puddle as they stand in line to receive birth kits from a local NGO at a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Kibati, north of the provincial capital city of Goma, on November 12, 2008. With a Women and conflict in the DRC
WATERLOO - After a while, the stories start to sound the same. Another woman is savagely raped, another victim of a decade-long war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

But it's important to listen to each individual voice, and offer humanitarian support in a way that fits with the woman's culture, experts said at the Centre for International Governance Innovation during a panel discussion on March 11. [MORE] [EN FRANÇAIS]

Female parliamentarians: caucusing for effectiveness
Last week, as a group of eleven women passed through security at a federal building in Washington, DC, a security guard asked where the group was from. “Sudan,” one of them answered. “Where are the men?” he followed-up. After a brief pause, one replied, “At home, fighting each other.”  [MORE] [EN FRANÇAIS]

Examining the elimination of gender inequality
Representatives from various human rights organizations unite in conversation on the effects of understanding identity. [MORE]   [EN FRANÇAIS]

In Kenya, the numbers on gender don't seem to add up
Post-election violence targeting women is among the issues forcing the international community to re-think its approach to achieving gender equality in the east African nation. [MORE]   [EN FRANÇAIS]

Challenges remain for Canadian funding
10 years after Canadian funds for gender equality were ‘mainstreamed' into development programming, international women's rights groups' claim that they still don't have the resources they need to bring about real change. [MORE]   [EN FRANÇAIS]
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Sexual violence and the need to confront militarized masculinity
 This case study highlights how the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been marked by almost unimaginable atrocities, including millions killed and displaced.   Most horrifically, sexual assault has become a major part of the violence with rape being so systematic and brutal that doctors in the DRC are now classifying wounds inflicted by rapists as combat injuries. [MORE]

The role of the international community in the DRC
 This USIPeace Briefing focuses on the nature of the debate over the UN's role in the Congo and what the UN international community can do to promote democracy in the Congo and help resolve or manage tensions between the Congo and its neighbors. [MORE]

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ROZENA MAART: GENDER EQUALITY FROM CAPE TOWN TO CANADA

"You don’t say “change”; you say “grow” because people don’t want to change. But men, women, lovers, boyfriends, friends, mothers, fathers, uncles -- everyone has to change" [MORE]

DEBRA SIMPSON: GENDER 'AS A WAY OF LIFE'
"Every kind of presence has an impact. I discovered – and it wasn't a big surprise – that with respect to gender dynamics, there are more commonalities between our countries and cultures than we're often prepared to admit." [MORE]

JEMMA KUMBA: SUDAN'S FEMALE GOVERNOR
"Women want to influence issues that affect their lives, but don’t usually see politics as a vehicle for doing so. They’re told that politics is for men. That needs to change." [MORE]

INDIRA BONDY: MATCH INTERNATIONAL
"When women are mobilized it’s easier to advance equality because you have a system that teaches them to start a project and conduct sustainable activities" [MORE]


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Sexual Violence, Women and HIV/AIDS
 This report by focuses on the plight of the women who have contracted HIV/AIDS as a result of rape during conflict in those countries. The report argues that under international human rights and humanitarian law, these women have the right to reparations for their suffering, including guaranteed access to antiretroviral drugs to fight HIV/AIDS. [MORE]

Gender, Justice, Citizenship and Development
Although there have been notable gains for women globally in the last few decades, gender inequality and gender-based inequities continue to impinge upon girls’ and women’s ability to realize their rights and their full potential as citizens and equal partners in decision-making and development. In fact, for every right that has been established, there are millions of women who do not enjoy it. [MORE]

Fragile States Country Report - DRC
 CIFP's 2007 Report on the Democratic Republic of Congo states that the long history of instability and violence is source of many of its current problems as the country scores below regional averages in terms of Authority, Legitimacy, and Capacity. [MORE]

Monitoring and Reporting on Women's Rights
The goal of this workshop was to increase the capacity of participating organizations to more effectively monitor State compliance with national and international standards for the protection and promotion of women’s human rights and gender equality in the Republic of Kazakhstan. [MORE]
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Investigating Women's Rights Violations in Armed Conflicts
 Investigating Women's Rights Violations in Armed Conflicts This booklet focuses on the monitoring of specific categories of women's rights violations. They help the reader prepare for fact-finding missions, provide guidelines for the collection and analysis of evidence, and include a checklist for conducting interviews. [MORE]

Gender and Education: a Guide to Working with the Media
 This guide, developed by Oxfam, is designed to help education and gender campaigners, and organisations and coalitions, work more effectively with the media to promote gender-equitable education. [MORE]

Freedom in the World 2009
On January 12, Freedom House released its annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to its findings, 2008 marked the third consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline. [MORE]