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October 1st 2001
World Habitat Day
To read the speech of the Executive
Director of UNCHS-Habitat click
here.
Dubai International Award
Deadlines Pending
As you may be aware, the call for
submission for the 4th cycle of the Dubai International Award for best
practices has been launched by UNCHS (Habitat) and Dubai municipality.
This award is rewarded biennially to 10 outstanding programmes to recognise
sustainable achievements in improving the living environment.
As a result of three successive award cycles in 1996, 1998 and 2000, currently there are over 1150 good and best practices from 125 countries featured on the Best Practices database at: http://www.bestpractices.org
On World Habitat Day in October 2002, Dubai Municipality will present the fourth Dubai International Award to a new group of 10 Best Practices. We will keep you informed about the deadlines for the submission process. For information on the Dubai International Award please visit: http://www.bestpractices.org/bp2002
An online reporting form is available at: http://dubai-award.dm.gov.ae/
May
10 - 12, 2001
NGO
Plenary Session
May
14 - 20, 2001
NGO
and Civil Society LDC Forum
Both
taking place at the 3rd UN LDC Conference, European Institutions' Area,
Brussels, Belgium. For more information please contact:
LDC
III NGO Forum vzw
Forum
ONG PMA III asbl
10
Square Ambriorix,
Brussels,
B-1000, Belgium
Tel:
32 (0)2 743 87 81
Fax:
32 (0)2 732 19 34
E-mail:
forum@clong.be
Web:
www.oneworld.org/liason/forum/
May
30 - June 4, 2001
Grassroots
Women's International Academy (GWIA) during Istanbul plus 5
During
Istanbul plus 5 in New York, the Huairou Commission in cooperation with
GROOTS will conduct a Grassroots Women's International Academy to extract
the lessons learned from Our Best Practices in the context of the Habitat
Agenda. The GWIA format is innovative and unique in that it comprises 5
days of interactive, joint problem-solving partnerships between grassroots
women's groups and partners from government, international agencies, churches,
academia, foundations as well as the private sector. All participants are
teachers and learners at the same time allowing for a maximum of cross-fertilization
of experience and perspective out of which a new body of knowledge and
a new growth of understanding can arise. For more information contact:
Huairou
Commission
249
Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn,
NY 11211
Phone:
1 718 388 8915
Fax:
1 718 388 0285
E-mail:
Huairou@earthlink.net
Web:
www.huairou.org
June
2001
Istanbul
+ 5 Special Session of the UN General Assembly. For more information
please contact:
Ms.
Axumite Gebre-Egziabher
UNCHS
Habitat
PO
Box 30033 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel:
254 2 623831
Fax:
254 2624264
E-mail:
Axumite.Gebre-Egziabher@unchs.org
Web:
http://www.Istanbul5.org
WORLD
HABITAT
Seeking
Entries!!!!!!!
For
more information,
July
16 - 21, 2002
The
8th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women will be held
at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Its central theme (Gendered
Worlds: Gains and Challenges) will be an assessment of progress over the
past few decades in the status of women and gender equity. Proposals are
welcomed for full panels, individual papers or projects and posters or
exhibitions. Please send an abstract, working title, and explanation of
the project's relevance to the conference's theme to:
The
Coordinator, Women's Worlds 2002
Dept
of Women and Gender Studies
Makerere
University
PO
Box 7062
Kampala,
Uganda
The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2001
November
10-13, 2002
Microcredit
Summit + 5, New York City is seeking comments on possible new papers
to be commissioned by the Microcredit Summit Campaign. For more information
please contact:
Anna
Awimbo
awimbo@microcreditsummit.org
Rights
of Women: A guide to the most
Published
by the International
Women,
Ink.
777
United Nations Plaza
email:
wink@womenink.org
Gender
and the Habitat Agenda:
A
guide booklet to paragraphs touching gender and women’s issues in the Habitat
Agenda.Available for $8 + postage and
handling
Women Advancement
Trust
This
book presents and discusses several key aspects of Africa’s ongoing land
policy debate including legislative reform, the management of land rights,
issues of implementation, and policy-making processes.It
provides readers with examples of how different countries have approached
the highly political and sensitive subject of rights to land and other
natural resources.
bookshop@iied.org
www.iied.org
Policy
Paper on Women and Urban Governance
Based
on the Habitat Agenda, UNCHS (Habitat) is addressing increasing urbanization
and the problem of urban poverty strategically through two campaigns, on
Secure Tenure and Good Urban Governance. Enhancing the role of women in
urban governance is a pre-condition for the inclusive city promoted by
the Global Campaign for Good Urban Governance. The norms of the Campaign
for Good Urban Governance are then used as a lens to focus on the policy
issues which the paper concludes. This policy paper will available later
during the year.
habitat@unchs.org
Building Safer Urban Environments: The Way Forward, The Building and Social Housing Foundation
This report summarises the main ideas arising as a result of a consultation at St. George's House, Windsor Castle and provides a clear and practical summary of possible future directions in making urban areas safer places in which to live and work. The report contains sections on the Challenge of Building Safer Urban Environments, Directions for Change, Sources of Further Information and a clear and simple Agenda for Action that sets out new ideas and approaches to improving safety in urban areas. The report highlights the fact that the issue of safety cannot be reduced to simply one of enforcing law and order and that it needs to be approached from a much broader perspective. 1999. 32 Pages.
Available from Ms. Diane Diacon,
Building and Social Housing Foundation, Memorial Square, Coalville,
Leicestershire, LE67 3TU, United
Kingdom, £5.00 plus p/p.
1999 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development: Globalization, Gender and Work, United Nations
This much awaited world survey prepared
by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women, explores the positive
and negative economic effects of
globalization. Three trends that it describes are: trade liberalization
and expansion; the spread of production capacity through direct investment
by multinationals; and the increased international mobility of capital.
Taking into consideration the mixed effects of globalization on women,
the survey provides suggestions for developing gender aware policies at
the national and international levels. This survey also serves as a basic
document for the Special Session of the General Assembly, 'Women 2000:
Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century' (June
2000) and is invaluable to anyone involved in the Beijing + 5 process.
1999. 76 Pages.
Available from Women, Ink., 777 United
Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA, E-mail: wink@igc.org, US$14.95
The Busy Woman's Guide to the Internet: Activism and Research Online, Kelly Mannix
This handy little guide is packed with information for women activists to get started on the Internet. For those who are unfamiliar with the power of online communication, this guide is a useful teaching tool on the internet community, with information on creating and getting on listserves, newsgroups, search engines and selecting the right Internet Service Provider. It also provides a brief glossary of common Internet terms and a directory of various women's organizations available online. 1999. 80 Pages.
Available from Women, Ink., 777 United
Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA, E-mail: wink@igc.org, US$6.00
International Co-operative for Habitat and Urban Development: Directory of NGO's in OECD countries, OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Available from OECD, 20 rue Des Grands,
Augustine, 75006, Paris, France
Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important UN Treaties on Women's Human Rights, International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC)
Written in simple non-legal language, this book provides a comprehensive review of women's human rights as defined by the most important United Nations Human Rights Treaties. The book looks at each right, describing the relevant conventions, and includes effective strategies for using international law to improve women's human rights. The manual also supplies a list of women's human rights resources. 1998. 144 Pages.
Available from IWTC 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA,
US$15.95. Free to organizations in
the South.
Beyond Credit: A Subsector Approach to Promoting Women’s Enterprise, Martha Chen (Ed.)
Beyond Credit introduces participatory subsector analysis as an effective approach to promoting women's enterprises, identifying new and growth sectors of economic activity to help ensure that poor women are appropriately trained. Includes case studies from Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Ghana, Chile, the Philippines and Canada. 1996. 151 Pages.
Available from the Aga Khan Foundation
Canada, 350 Rue Albert St., Suits 1820, Ottawa, Ontario, KlR lA4, Canada,
US$19.95. Available free for organizations in the South.
Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries, Christina Bergqvist (Ed.)
Representations of the Nordic countries, often conjure up an image of homogeneity within the region which is noted, among other things, for the central position of social democracy and extensive equality between the sexes. This books sets out to reexamine this conception by posing two fundamental questions: how equal are women and men in the Nordic countries? And, how homogeneous are the Nordic Countries? 2000. 328 Pages.
Available from Stationery Office, P.O. Box 276, GB London Sw8 5DT.