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External Publications and Resources
The following is a list of publications and resources that have been created by other groups that we find relevant to the VNC Campaign. If you have a publications you would like to share with us, please write to:
Guatemala: No Protection, No Justice: Killings of Women and Girls in Guatemala
This report, part of AI Stop Violence Against Women Campaign, was published 9 June 2005.
Guatemala: No protection, no justice: killings of women (an update)
Guatemala: No protection, no justice: killings of women (an update)
At approximately 9:30 pm on 27 July 2005, 20-year-old university student Cristina Hernández(1) was forced nto a grey car outside her home by four men. Neighbours witnessed the abduction and immediately alerted her father who later related:
An Investigation into Honour-based Violence (HBV) and Honour Killings in Iraqi Kurdistan and in the Kurdish Diaspora in the UK
An Investigation into Honour-Based Violence & Honour Killings in Iraqi Kurdistan & in the Kurdish Diaspora in the UK.
Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2008
This 185-page report is published by Plan International for the purpose of bringing global attention to the fact that progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is being hampered
Driven to a Fiery Death — The Tragedy of Self-Immolation in Afghanistan
THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 358:2201-2203 May 22, 2008 Number 21
Afghanistan, a country with 32 million residents, has been engaged in constant conflict for the past 30 years. This instability and insecurity have resulted in a stark economic climate and a very low life expectancy.
Indicators to Measure Violence Against Women
*United Nations Statistical Commission & Economic Commission for Europe
*Conference of European Statisticians
*United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
Ending Footbinding and Infibulation: A Convention Account
This is a paper was published in the American Sociological Review, 1996, Col. 61 (December, pg.999-1017.)
Abstract:
Female genital mutilation in Africa persists despite modernization, public education, and legal prohibition. Female footbinding in China lasted for 1,000 years but ended in a single generation. 1 show that each practice is a self-enforcing convention, in Schelling's (1960) sense, maintained by interdependent expectations on the marriage market. Each practice originated under conditions of extreme resource polygyny as a means of enforcing the imperial male's exclusive sexual access to his female consorts. Extreme polygyny also caused a competitive upward flow of women and a downward flow of conjugal practices, accounting for diffusion of the practices. A Schelling coordination diagram explains how the three methods of the Chinese campaign to abolish footbinding succeeded in bringing it to a quick end. The pivotal innovation was to form associations of parents who pledged not to footbind their daughters nor let their sons marry footbound women. The "convention" hypothesis predicts that promotion of such pledge associations would help bring female genital mutilation to an end.
UN Study on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Status of Women from the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions
This is the official United Nations Study on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Status of Women from the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions (E/CN.4/2002) by Mr.
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence - 2008 Theme Announcement
The 2008 theme for the 14 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence was recently announced by the Center for Women's Global Leadership.
Rejecting 'cultural' justifications for violence against women: strategies for women's rights advocates.
This paper was first drafted as a Consultation Paper that was presented at the WEMC forums in Istanbul and Ankara. It was then uploaded on the WEMC Web site at and circulated among members of the Research Programme Consortium. This finalised version has evolved into a Strategy Paper that incorporates the comments of diverse stakeholders who provided inputs. We would like to thank the WEMC members who contributed to the writing of this Paper.
The aim of this Strategy Paper is to contribute to the implementation of the UN General Assembly's Resolution A/RES/61/143 Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women, and to the Secretary-General's Campaign to End Violence Against Women, by focusing on how to reject 'cultural' justifications for violence against women. This Paper discusses two ways of doing this:
(1) By strategizing around key opportunities that have emerged in the UN system
(2) By countering 'cultural' justifications for violence against women at micro, meso and macro levels