UNICEF's Innocent Research Center has helped publish a report about Trafficking in Human Beings in South Eastern Europe. The author, Barbara Limanowska, aims to increase the awareness of trafficking in human beings on the part of governmental institutions, NGOs, and the general public, and to connect the prevalence of human trafficking to its root cause, the structural gender inequality in South Eastern Europe.
Download pdf: www.childtrafficking.org/eng/seereport2005.pdf
New resource from Gender at Work: Conversations with Women on Leadership and Social Transformation, by Srilatha Batliwala and Aruna Rao. These conversations with 18 international women leaders elucidate women's visions, their perspectives on coalition building and leadership, and fundamental questions on how to challenge power and accountability.
To download: www.genderatwork.org/index.php/SEC41fbd73cde055
Healthy Mothers and Healthy Children: The Role of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality by the Pan American Health Organization. The report outlines the widespread influence of sexual and reproductive health care for women on society in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Website: www.paho.org/english/ad/ge/home.htm
Women and Environments International Magazine calls for submissions to their issue, Women and Urban Sustainability to be released in Spring 2006. This issue will contribute to the World Urban Forum that marks the 30th anniversary of UN Habitat to be held in Vancouver in June 2006. They seek submissions that analyze urban sustain- ability from diverse perspectives of gender, sexual identity, race, class, ability, age, socio-cultural and regional differences, among others. Send abstracts or indications of interest by October 1st 2005.
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CORRECTION:
The last issue of Raising Our Voices incorrectly stated the number of nations that ratified the Beijing Platform for Action. The correct number is 189.
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