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Newsletters - 2000
We wish those of you who are celebrating at this time a merry Christmas and to all of you a happy New Year. Women have, with the accepted Action 2000 in Beijing +5, reached some of their goals in 2000, but a follow-up is needed, to start in 2001. The Resolution, adopted by the Security Council, is a wonderful first step. But ... it is a first step only, which puts women mostly in a post war position in the Florence Nightingale role. Lots of work still has to be done to create a more peaceful world and that’s what we want. The International Criminal Court was ratified by some very important states in 2000. That’s great but we still are badly in need of more than 30 states to ratify the Rome Statute. Of interest for those who suffer because they belong to a minority like the Aborigines, is the answer of the Human Rights Committee to the Australian Government. It shows how a UN body can put its finger on a sore patch with mobilising public opinion, without putting a nation under stress by sanctions. The IAW Board Meeting in Tel Aviv went well although a quorum was not present. It acted as an enlarged Executive Committee discussing organisational matters. The Seminar was a success and an important workshop in Cyprus about Violence followed soon after.
A good and peaceful New Year! We all hope the Alliance can help to make a better world during 2001 for women and children who are suffering throughout the world.
Good news for women all over the world: the CEDAW Optional Protocol will be ratified on 22 December 2000! We’re also happy to tell you that another small step forward has been taken on the road to a new International Criminal Court. Steps forward too in ‘Women and Armed Conflicts’, but they are very very small. The process of Peace is in constant need of the support of us all.
Women in Politics, one of the four issues of the Board Meeting, takes us this time to the political women of Thailand. And the Third UN LDC Conference: Rosy Weiss is sketching its background and is again urging our IAW members to contact her!
Vice-president Rosy Weiss is sending an urgent request and if it concerns you, please answer her soon! Trafficking in Women will be the fourth theme of the IAW Board meeting in Tel Aviv. With Women in Politics, Violence against Women and “Where do Women’s Rights stand at the beginning of the new Millennium”, the IAW seminar will be a very interesting one. Also in this newsletter an article about fighting illiteracy in India by MS Rakesh Dhawn, the elections in Japan, CEDAW in Australia, a boost in Pakistan, a new law to punish abortion in Guanajuato, Mexico and a network of world water women ...
Please have a look at the inspiring program of the IAW board Seminar in Tel Aviv and join usa in sending us your documents. The EC will be very pleased to put the newsletter at the sevice of our members. And again we have added new members to our IAW email list, with a total of 175 members with an email address. Denmark leads with 21, followed by Australia with 17. Welcome to you all! In this newsletter you will find an important article of Gundrun Haupter, warning us about the often underestimated danger of smoking, for women in particular. And of course we are following up the document of Beijing +5.
Please forgive the temporary editor – by mistake I included a short unedited section in the June Newsletter under WOMEN LAW & POLITICS.
This newsletter is made up of comments and extracts from New york about Beijing +5 received from Joke Sebus, Pat Giles and Jessica Kehl-Lauff. Other IAW members in New your included Kay Fraleigh, Tepse Lambrinoloulou, Anje Wiersinga and Irini Sarlis. After all her hard work, joke is having a well earned holiday in the US, so Priscilla Todd is putting this newsletter together and hopes that it makes interesting reading for all those who were not able to be in New York. It includes Joke’s first impressions, followed by an account of a workshop – MEN, LAW and POLITICS – organised by IAW and the International Federation of Women in Legal Careers. There are some interesting and pithy extracts from the daily paper “Watchdog” of the youth Caucus. an article by Joke about THE DOCUMENT gives us a graphic idea of all the hard work, the frustrations and the final outcome. Pat Giles then briefy sums it all up.
If you are going to the Special Session in June, please take good notice of the closing date of 15th of May for registration. The IAW delegation will comprise Pat Giles, Kay Fraleigh and Jessika Kehl. There are other IAW members too, in another capacity.
Women all over the world are coming to Beijing +5 and they are there: for their loved ones, for humanity, for the environment, for peace. The care women are giving worldwide is expressed beautifully in a letter of IAW Affiliate to be from ZHARIA in Kazakhstan. The EC wishes her IAW delegation a very good and fruitful mission!.
In this April Newsletter more news in the struggle for women’s rights world-wide. The excellent article in IWNews: Is Rape an Act of Torture, has a follow-up in the trial of the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague where, for the first time, rape and sexual enslavement has been treated as crimes against humanity.
In the next IWNews you will find a report of the Town Hall Meeting on Peace, on March 8 2000 during CSW, by IAW President Pattricia Giles. Because we are not sure if all of you will receive the next IWNews in time for the Special Session, Pat Giles has been so kind to give us a first reading of her article in this newsletter.
Please have a look too at the attachment on Women as Peace Makers, saved in Word 6.0/95. If you cannot open it, tell us and we will sent it by email.
The Special Session, Beijing +5 in June, features uppermost in this newsletter. We do hope many of you will attend in one or another capacity. The EC will try if possible (!) to send one or two newsletters with (short) interviews of our IAW members covering their subjects.
On behalf of the Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO) our Vice-President Hana Elroy has informed us that the dates for our Board meeting are October 29th to November 2nd 2000, in Tel Aviv. This will give us three full days for the meeting, one day for a seminar (subject yet to be decided) and a day on which to visit projects in different cities in Israel.
Simone Chapuis-Bischof has sent us this charming opening message. Thank you, Simone!
The year 2000 already had a good start with lightning fast news of the ECE regional preparatory meeting for Beijing +5, of 17-19 January. We do hope there will also be a good coverage of ECLAC in Lima, Peru, 8-10 February 2000, after ESCAP - ECA - ESCWA - ECE. There is also news of ESCAP by our IAW Affiliate, the Women’s Rights Movement of the Philippines (WRMP). In this Newsletter more news about Beijing +5, about the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and the role of NGOs. Underlying it all is the Resolution accepted by IAW Congress in August/September 1999. And our IAW email list is still growing.
Newsletters - 1999
A short letter this time wish news from the IAW Congress in New York The IAW Action Program 1999-2002 has gained in strength. It has been streamlined and a new article has been added about Environment and Habitat. A new Board was installed, consisting of 24 Board members. Among them: 15 members with an email address! Future IAW meetings are: 1) in 2000 an IAW Board meeting in Israel; 2) in 2001 an International Meeting in Vienna. Austria (which incorporates a meeting of the Board); 3) in 2002 the XXXII Triennial Congress in Sri Lanka. The Danish Women’s Society has invited the IAW for a European Regional Conference on: “7% Implementation of the CEDAW Convention”, in October 2001 Odense, Denmark.
The Board recommended and Congress approved some new Affiliate and Associate organisations. Pat Richardson collected at least 25 new email addresses, including members of Croatia, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. Also, an IAW website will be installed soon and its base will be Australia! In this letter you will find more Congress information including a list of IAW Board members and Commission Convenors, a follow-up of the preparation of Beijing +5 and of the fight against ‘Honour Killings’, some ideas of the Editorial Committee of Electronic Communication (us!) about: “networking” and last but not least: news from IAW Affiliates.
In this Newsletter you will find an inspirational letter from IAW President Patricia Giles telling of her many activities - Women and Water 2000; the progress of Emily’s List in different countries; interesting organisations like Sisterhood is global. She has also been giving many lectures on woman’s suffrage, an issue that lies near the heart of Archives Officer, Marijke Peters. IAW member Alexene Williams, President of the Black Women’s Organisations in Denmark, has sent us an enthusiastic report of an ILO Conference in Geneva.
Other items include news about coming events with some informative hyperlinks; a note about “twinning” from the IAW Treasurer ... out IAW email list has now gone over one hundred members! We are delighted to be joined by new members from Uganda, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Fiji, up to a total of 34 countries.
We are sending you a fast “in between Newsletter’ awaiting IWN, which is delayed for various reasons. With the registration forms of the IAW Congress! We have also an urgent request of spreading the word around about the delay and mentioning again the dates, the venue, etc. of the Congress.
In this Newsletter you will find a follow-up of the so-called honour killings, telling about an important meeting of six Arab States in June in Jordan. In the July Newsletter we will like to go with you to Geneva and Vienna, where important UN meetings are taking place, which are diligently attended by our IAW members.
As promised, this Newsletter will bring you news about 1999 as the Year of the Older Persons. We’re looking back at the agenda of ESCAP in Bangkok in April and with Health we’re looking forward to Beijing +5 in 2000. There is the Questionnaire, sent to governments in preparation for Beijing +5. Ministers of the European union talked in April about important social issues for women on the one hand yet on the other hand there is this cruel ‘ethnic cleansing’ and bombing in former Yugoslavia, with many women and children among the victims. In Pakistan woman’s organisations are protesting against the lax attitude of their government in crimes of so-called honour-killings and in between all this news, the good and the bad, the alliance is preparing for its 31st Triennial congress to be held in New York.
March 1999 was an important UN month. In this newsletter there is wonderful news: the adoption of the Optional Protocol! At last after four long years of negotiating at international level. Also news about HEALTH and INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN and of course, about the IAW.
This Newsletter will focus mainly on the four subjects of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), March 1-19 1999 at the UN in New York. Those four are: 1) Health; 2) Institutional Mechanisms; 3) the Prepcom and 4) the Optional Protocol.
It will probably be ‘heavy’ reading for the newcomers among us, but the CSW meeting is of the utmost importance for the IA W. We have also put in an attachment with an inspiring article from the New York Times, of ‘Rebecca Peters and the Gun Makers on Trial’.
In this first month of 1999 we have again been welcoming IAW members with an email now more than 50! We are also very happy to find many board members on our list.
Newsletters - 1998
The year 1999 will be an interesting year for women all over the world with, like always, many international problems to tackle and also a lot of preparation for monitoring the Plan of action for Beijing Plus Five in 2000.
The EC will continue sending news from all corners of the world in 1999 and we also would be very much appreciate hearing from you, too. This newslatter is even more festive because we have a growing number of IAW countries that can be reached by email - now 21! however, the newsletter will be short. We are limiting our news to the two most important subjects of the Commission of the Status of women (CSW): Health and National Machinery. (And the Optinal Protocol, and 1999 as the Year against Violence and also as the Year of the Elderly!)
The inaugural newsletter.
As a member of the Editorial Committee (EC) of the International Alliance of Women, one of my tasks is to collect email addresses of IAW members for a future IAW mailing list. Our small list is growing constantly. At the moment we have a list of 40 email addresses from 20 countries and that is a good reason to send you this first NEWSLETTER.
As a start we propose to cluster news items around the 7 topics of the IAW: 1) Civil & Political Rights; 2) Education; 3) Elimination of Poverty; 4) All Forms of Violence/Trafficking in Women; 5) Health; 6) Environment and Habitat; 7) Committee on the CEDAW Convention. There are already 4 or 5 Commission Convenors with email.
We will try to introduce a selection of News from the Net – News that could be important to IAW affiliates and members. And, because this Newsletter is also meant as a form of communication between IAW members, we also can include IAW news from affiliates, associates and members. And, very important: the IAW Newsletter will be short! We all have so much to read already.
A small beginning.
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