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2001
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December
29, 2001 Mobility International USA releases groundbreaking report on gender and disability within the international development community. Mobility International USA (MIUSA) is proud to announce publication of Gender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member Agencies. The survey was the first attempt to systematically document the extent to which US-based international development organizations include people with disabilities, particularly women and girls, in policies, employment, programs and services. One hundred and four members of InterAction, a coalition of international relief, development, environmental and refugee agencies based in the US, participated in the research project, which was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Women in Development. Findings from the survey point to the need by development agencies for training, education and technical assistance to bring people with disabilities, in particular women with disabilities into the development assistance process. Most organizations collect little or no data about the participation of women and girls with disabilities in field programs. The data which are available support anecdotal reports that very few women with disabilities are served in field programs, including gender-specific and disability-specific programs. Obstacles cited to inclusion of women and girls with disabilities include lack of training, information and resources for effective outreach and disability-related accommodations. Fewer than 1% of staff positions in responding agencies are filled by people with known disabilities. Respondent organizations indicated that they need assistance to implement equal employment opportunity policies for recruitment and job accommodation of people with disabilities in the US and overseas. Recommendations from Gender and Disability include the need for InterAction member organizations to seek out appropriate technical assistance to develop Plans of Action to implement InterAction’s Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) Standards on Disability. Adopted in 2000, the Standards provide guidelines for inclusion of people with disabilities in governance, management, human resources, programs, material assistance, and child sponsorship. MIUSA, founded in 1981, is a US-based nonprofit organization working to ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities in international exchange and development programs. Nearly 1,000 people from 80 different countries have taken part in MIUSA’s unique cross-cultural disability rights and empowerment programs over the last 20 years. A member of InterAction, MIUSA recently began a new three year project sponsored by the US Agency on International Development, to provide training and technical assistance to InterAction member agencies, based on the findings of the gender and disability survey. Gender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member Agencies – Findings and Recommendations on Inclusion of Women and Men with Disabilities in International Development Programs is available to download at no cost from the MIUSA website, www.miusa.org. For more information,
call MIUSA at (541) 343-1284 (V/TTY), e-mail at December
22, 2001
Call
for Action to Halt the Impending Massacre
in Pacific Coast Region of Colombia
|
| President's Choice products & Genetically Engineered foods | December 19, 2001 |
December 18, 2001
| MIUSA's New Gender & Disability Report Available | December 18, 2001 |
December
17, 2001
Human
Rights - Appeal to Action
|
STOP
the Killing & Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in China |
December 17, 2001 |
December
15, 2001
Announcement
Canadian
Court Orders Anti-Falun Gong Publication Stopped
OTTAWA, December 14, 2001 (Falun Dafa Information Center)
Setting a worldwide legal precedent, a Canadian court issued a
mandate Monday prohibiting the Montreal-based Chinese newspaper
“La Presse Chinoise Eastern” from publishing materials
defaming the Falun Gong spiritual practice.
Falun Gong practitioners, along with their legal counsel Mr. Michael Bergman, a civil rights lawyer, held a press conference to make public the details of the court order issued earlier this week. The material’s author was also ordered not to circulate defamatory anti-Falun Gong materials under any circumstances.
(To date, 323 Falun Gong practitioners have died as a result of police torture.)
December
15, 2001
Announcement
Environment Canada has published a new list of polluters, naming hundreds of companies across the country that are spewing two of the worst industrial poisons.
To search
for pollutants in your community, visit Environment Canada's
National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) site at
http://www.npri-inrp.com/queryform.cfm and enter the first
three digits of your postal code.
For information on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/english/ehome.htm
For information on Air Pollutant Emissions (i.e. Criteria Air Contaminants and others) http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ape/cape_home_e.cfm
December
12, 2001
Additions to the
site include:
Tories
are Unfit To Govern!
December 8, 2001
Additions to the
site include:
Stop
Bill C-36!
December 6, 2001
National
Day of Remembrance & Action on
Violence Against Women
December 6, 2001 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Please take part in activities planned in your community!
December
5, 2001
Announcement
PATHS
Open Letter to the Saskatchewan Media, Re: December 6
"December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action
on Violence Against Women. Virginia M. Fisher is asking if the
Saskatchewan media couldn't contribute in a more meaningful way
to the second point of the marking of December 6th a Day of Action.
Read Virginia's
letter to at www.hotpeachpages.org/paths/openletter.html
by Virginia M. Fisher
PATHS (Provincial Association of Transition Houses of Saskatchewan)
Phone: 306-978-6654 Fax: 306-978-6692
www.hotpeachpages.org
and www.hotpeachpages.org/paths
December
5, 2001
Announcement
ODA
Committee Press Release
The Ontarians with Disabilities Act (ODA) Committee made
a presentation to the Legislature's Finance Committee during its
hearings on Bill 125, the proposed Ontarians with Disabilities
Act.
Read the press release at www.odacommittee.net/ODA_Bill_125_news7.html
December
4, 2001
CALL
to ACTION
Please act in solidarity by signing the International Solidarity Declaration in support of 17 women in Portugal on trial for practicing abortions. (Please email your support before Dec. 15th. Read the Action Alert
December
3 , 2001
Happy Internanal Day
for Disabled Persons
Statement on Internanal Day for Disabled Persons
November
30, 2001
Appeal to Action
Please write to Mel Lastman,
Mayor of Toronto, re: the mother of Bo Li, a Falong practitioner
being held in a Chinese prison under incredible circumstances,
detained without trial. Follow this
link to read more.
TOP of page
November
25, 2001
Call to Action
Re: Bill
130 - The Conservatives' hostile
takeover of the Community
Care Access Centres - will be in second reading for
three days this week (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday). After that
the Conservatives can push it through before Christmas. Please
act now. A full listing of MPPs with contact information is available
on the Government of Ontario website at www.ontla.on.ca/Members/mailing_addresses/index.htm
Contacts:
- Tony Clement - Minister of Health and Long Term Care clement@titan.tcn.net
- Helen
Johns - Association Minister of Health - she
introduced this Bill
helen_johns@ontla.ola.org - Shelley
Martel - NDP Health Critic
shelley_martel-mpp@ontla.ola.org - Lyn
McLeod - Liberal Health Critic
lyn_mcleod-mpp@ontla.ola.org - Sandra
Pupatello - Liberal Health Critic
sandra_pupatello-mpp@ontla.ola.org
November
18, 2001
Call to Action
Letter writing campaign in response to the callous disregard shown by the University of Toronto towards its most prestigious senior women academics who are living on unfair and inadequate pensions.
The University should recognize and reward the extraordinary scholarly, ambassadorial, and life-long mentoring roles played by their outstanding pioneer women faculty, including Professors Emeritae Phyllis Grosskurth (English) and Ursula Franklin (Metallurgy).
No one in touch with the statistics can deny that academic women in Canada have suffered, and continue to suffer, from a gender-based wage gap, clearly much wider in the past than now, but still standing at 94.5%, or roughly $5,000 on average per woman per year.
The wage gap
translates into the pension gap. The University of Toronto
Administration should be ashamed of abandoning these distinguished
women retirees.
Write
to:
The Hon. H. N. R. Jackman OC
Chancellor
University of Toronto
10th floor, 165 University Ave
Toronto ON
M5H 1G6
November
17, 2001
Recommended Website
The Canadian
Council on Social Development (CCSD) recently released
its
disability information sheet - a useful compilation of
a range of sources of data on various issues related to disability
and is available at their website in PDF and HTML formats! pinpoint
URL: http://www.ccsd.ca/drip/research/dis1.htm
November
16, 2001
Announcement
ONTARIO
DEFENDERS OF MEDICARE CONVERGENCE
- a time for organizing. a time for action -
THE CONVERGENCE
has been called by the Ontario Health Coalition
Saturday, December 1, 2001
Toronto Sheraton Centre
9am - 4:30 pm
For more info: email: ohc@sympatico.ca
November 15, 2001
National
Technology Needs Survey online
http://www.goodenough.ca/technologydiscussion/english.htm
Pay particular attention to question # 23 copy and pasted below:
Which of the following communities does your organization serve?
- At least a quarter of our community members are Native Canadian.
- At least
a quarter of our community members are multicultural or ethnic
minorities. - At least a quarter of our community members are francophone.
- At least a quarter of our community members live in a rural area.
- None of the above.
Note that Women and Persons with Disabilities are conspiciously ommitted from the communities mentioned above. Given the barriers to technology faced by both Women and PWD sector this is a very SAD oversight. Speak Up if this concerns you.
November
13, 2001
Call to Action
Please take
two minutes to join the European Women's Lobby (EWL) Campaign
on Women Asylum Seekers, to pressure the EU to develop a gender-sensitive
'European Policy on Asylum'.
HOW?
By signing the electronic petition at: www.womenlobby.org/asylumcampaign/EN/REA/form.asp
Sign before the campaign ends on 15 December 2001
For more info visit : www.womenlobby.org/asylumcampaign
November 11, 2001
Community Research Project call for Focus
Group Volunteers
Sexual
Harassment and Discrimination Against Women in the Workplace
Under the funding of
Status of Women Canada, the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis
Centre’s in partnership with the Centre for Research
on Violence Against Women and Children and Sandy Welsh
of the Sociology Department at the University of Toronto is
undertaking to address women’s right to a violence free workplace;
a workplace free from sexual harassment and discrimination based
on gender, race, ability, sexual orientation or other defining
differences.
TOP of page
November 6, 2001
BREAKING NEWS!
Trillim
Foundation turns down DAWN Ontario funding proposal without
a dime. The
Grant Review team didn't feel that we had the CAPACITY
to manage funds as effectively as other organizations who applied.
CONGRATULATIONS
to successful provincial organizationals Grantees
who do! They include:
2000/2001
recipents:
Ontario Ladies' Golf Association
(OLGA) $295,500 over four years to support the amalgamation
of the Ontario Ladies Golf Association and the Ontario Golf Association
programs designed to increase the participation in the sport of
golf. Programs will focus on Junior development.
Ontario Community Support Association
$650,000 over three years to
establish the Management Services Network for community health
organizations. The Network will provide administrative tools,
resources and services to address the individual business needs
of 360 agencies.
Since
October 1, 2001:
Sport Alliance of Ontario $501,000 over two years to
help develop new community sport councils across Ontario and establish
a provincial Community Sport Network in order to better support
and encourage volunteers involved in local sports.
Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs $360,100 over five years
to support 281 volunteer
clubs to respond to the growth in year-round trail use and the
impact on local tourism.
Theatre Ontario $273,800 over two years
to provide first-aid training as well as resource and policy development
to volunteer-based community theatres.
November
5, 2001
Ontario government introduces new ODA Bill
for first reading
www.odacommittee.net/ODA_Bill_2001.html
Government's
Explanatory Note re: new ODA Bill 125
www.odacommittee.net/ODA_Bill_Gov_Notes.html
Compendium
to the new ODA Bill 125
www.odacommittee.net/ODA_Bill_Comp.html
TAKE
ACTION Monday, November 5th, 2001
Day of Protest
- Contacty your MP on Monday, November 5th
A new round of trade expansion will speed up global insecurities,
not eliminate them. We need to demand of our politicians that
the WTO trade talks be halted. Instead,
governments and citizens around the world need to evaluate the
WTO and its impact so far. And we need to re-think and re-define
the role and responsibilities of government itself in this age
of corporate-driven globalization.
We need a new fair trade agenda!
November
4, 2001
Recommended website
Assistive
Technology Training Online
Free, online training in assistive technology for students with
disabilities. Focus specifically on adaptive computing for the
elementary classroom
TOP of page
November 3, 2001
Recommended website
Legal Aid and Consultancy Center (LACC)
- Nepal; Working for protection
& promotion of women's rights, child rights & for ending
all forms of discrimination, exploitation, abuse & violence
against women, children & child labour through legal &
judicial process.
The Legal Aid and Consultancy
Centre (LACC) as an independent non-profit, non-partisan and non-governmental
legal resource organisation was established in 1987 by a group
of lawyers for the protection and promotion of the rights and
interests of women and children in Nepal. As a pioneer legal resource
organisation, it is dedicated for the advancement and empowerment
of women, their dignity, uplifting of their socio-legal status
and protection of child rights. There are seventeen women lawyers
working in LACC. Prof. (Dr.) Shanta Thapalia, is the founding
President of Legal Aid and Consultancy Center.
November 1, 2001
Additions to the site include
Access
Checklist - abridged version en
français
October
29, 2001
Call
to ACTION!
Please take action to help stop the war in Afghanistan and promote women's human rights - Sign up to the 12 Points now! In the coming weeks, the 12 Points will be used in lobbying efforts and awareness raising actions around the world. By signing up you will strengthen these efforts and join a growing movement to persuade world governments and the UN that there are alternatives to military action and the cycle of violence, destruction and death.
To register your and/or your organization's support for the 12 Points please send a message to whrnet@whrnet.org containing your name, email address, your organization's full name (if appropriate) and your country.
October
28, 2001
Call
for Participation
Submission deadline: November 1, 2001
Grace Hopper
Celebration of Women in Computing 2002
hosted by the IWT -
Institute for Women and Technology
This is the fourth in a series of conferences designed to bring
the research and career interests of women in computing to the
forefront. The conference will take place October 10-12, 2002
in Vancouver, British Columbia, the first international location
for the series. The theme for 2002, "Ubiquity," focuses on the
ubiquity of the impact of computers on our daily lives and the
ubiquity of the impact women are making on this technical force.
Contact: Ann Redelfs, SDSC, email: redelfs@sdsc.edu,
tel: 858-534-5032
October
27, 2001
Recommended website
MADRE,
an international women's human rights organization; MADRE works
in partnership with community-based women’s organizations in conflict
areas worldwide to address issues of health, education, economic
development and other human rights. MADRE provides resources and
training for our sister organizations and works to empower people
in the US to demand changes to unjust policies. Based on the priorities
of the women with whom we work, MADRE develops programs to meet
immediate needs in communities hurt by US policy and supports
women’s long-term struggles for social justice and human rights.
The Madre web site includes a Justice Not Vengeance Tool Kit at
http://www.madre.org/toolkit.html,
a concise Q & A on the US Military Response to September 11
October
26, 2001
Additions/amendments to the site include:
What can Women with disAbilities do to Be Safe
Guide
to Services for Assaulted Women
new links added to Shelters
for abused women in Ontario
sorted
by organization name
sorted by location in Ontario
new links added to Sexual
and Domestic Assault Treatment Centres
sorted
by organization name
sorted
by location in Ontario.
October
24, 2001
Announcement
Live interactive
web-cast discussion (global)
October 24, 2001 | between 12:00 noon and 2:30 p.m. (EST)
Women´s Peacenet in Spanish -- Feminist International Radio
Endeavour / FIRE
Latin American and Caribbean Network of Women against Violence/ISIS
Women´s Network of AMARC/AMLAT present "In the
Aftermath of Terror and in the Midst of Conflict"
Women Activists Discuss Peace, Justice, & Conflict Resolution
in a Globalized World; A live interactive web-cast discussion
of International Women Activists’ Reactions to the September
11th Terrorist Attacks in the US and the subsequent conflict --
at www.fire.or.cr
Candle-light Vigil for Peace hosted by North Bay Peace
Alliance (local)
in front of MP Bob Wood's office, 160 McIntyre Street West at
6 p.m
followed by the film, "Speaking Our Peace", at 7:30
p.m. in the Parlour at St. Andrew's United Church, 399 Cassells
Street (McIntyre St. entrance)
October
23, 2001
Additions to the site include:
Medical Information Record - a form available for your use
Our Events Calendar has many new entries
October
22, 2001
Citizens' Appeal
The World Trade Organization is quickly becoming the most powerful body on the planet. It plays a huge role in causing global economic insecurity. The WTO is about to launch a New Round of Negotiations amongst its 142 member countries since the failed Round in Seattle. arliamentarians and trade representatives will soon be traveling abroad to quietly negotiate more WTO trade deals that threaten:
* the sell-off
of our public services to big business
* protections for workers and basic human rights
* the environment and even democracy itself!
It's time
for politicians, big business trade pushers and government negotiators
to work for common security- WTO trade deals should reflect people's
needs, not corporate greed. Send
a message to WTO Cheerleaders to let them know they cannot
represent you at the next WTO meetings and that you want them
to work on our behalf to develop common security through fair
trade. Sign by Nov. 8 before the International
DAY OF ACTION against the WTO on Nov. 9 and the
CFWTO will deliver your message to the Canadian Government. If
you have not already done so, please sign the appeal located at
http://www.wtoaction.org/pledge/
October
21, 2001
Link
Open Letter on Institutional Reforms in the WTO 
.pdf - 64k
As WTO members meet for the final stretch of negotiations
on the draft Ministerial declaration before Doha, the undersigned
NGOs urge them to seriously address the systemic inequalities
and imbalances, which have prevented them from making meaningful
progress on key substantial issues and continue to cast doubts
on the legitimacy and transparency of the multilateral trading
system. This open-letter focuses on issues and concerns related
to internal and external transparency.
October
20, 2001
Announcement:
rabble.ca,
the most popular and well-read independent national publication
in Canada, is in urgent need of financial support to continue
publishing online. Please consider donating whatever you can afford
to share.
October
18, 2001
Call to Action!
Bill C-287
(the GE - genetically engineered - foods bill) was defeated
in the House yesterday in a 126 - 91 vote. Read
the press release issued by the Council of Canadians,
suggesting that Cabinet's ties to the biotechnology sector are
just too strong. Recent polls show that 95 per cent of Canadians
favour mandatory labelling.
Email to fax your MP today and express
your outrage!
"What's
Wrong With Genetic Engineering?"
download the WORD
version
download
the
RTF version
'Very
CYBERFEMINIST International' Conference
December 13 - 16, 2001 in Hamburg, Germany
A three-day conference addressing different themes daily such
as
CYBERFEMINIST networking, Personal approach to CYBERFEMINISM,
Electronic music and Sound production in the Lichtmesz-kino. Every
contribution to the conference will be broadcast via live stream
simultaneously through the Internet, and partly through the local
radiostation FSK in Hamburg.
Organised by Old boys
network (Verena Kuni, Helene von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche,
Cornelia Sollfrank) in cooperation with: Les
Penelopes (F), Constant vzw, Vereniging voor kunst en media
(B) and Women's art Library (UK)
Contact: boys@obn.org or claudia.reiche@hamburg.de
http://faces.vis-med.ac.at
October 17, 2001
Additions to the site include:
READY &
ABLE Including Volunteers with Disabilities
Conference, Volunteer Fair & Trade Show
November 6, 2001, Metro Hall, Toronto, Ontario
For conference update visit www.volunteertoronto.on.ca
Text of Dr. Sunera Thobani's
War Frenzy
Sunera's statement following the War of Words invoked by maintstream
media following her
speech
at the Women's
Resistance
conference on October 1, 2001
October 16, 2001
Additions to the site include:
DAWN Ontario's vote for Phenomenal
Woman!
Judith Snow
Philosopher, Lecturer and Author
Consultants invited for McMaster Course on Successful Aging with
a Disability
Physically challenged people over the age of sixty are being invited
to
serve as consultants to students in the winter term (January to
March 2002).
October
15, 2001
URGENT Call
to ACTION!
Call To ACTION
Bulgaria: Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
Women
inmates at Sanadinovo and
Disabled women condemned to slow death
October
14, 2001
2001
TASH Conference
November 14 - 17, 2001 at at the Marriott Anaheim & Anaheim Convention
The TASH Conference is known for sessions and networking
that are full of energy, excitement, and passion. The synergy
that happens at this gathering is created by the incredible melding
of people with disabilities, family members, professionals, and
many other advocates who are striving everyday for full inclusion
of people with disabilities in their home communities. The theme
for this year’s conference is "Imaging the Future"
October 13, 2001
TAKE ACTION on Monday, November
5th, 2001
Day of Protest
- Contacty your MP on Monday, November 5th
A new round of trade expansion will speed up global insecurities,
not eliminate them. We need to demand of our politicians that
the WTO trade talks be halted. Instead,
governments and citizens around the world need to evaluate the
WTO and its impact so far. And we need to re-think and re-define
the role and responsibilities of government itself in this age
of corporate-driven globalization.
We need a new fair trade agenda!
International Week of Protest Against
the WTO! November 9 - 13, 2001
Part of the new negotiating round will include negotiations on
key agreements like the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services),
TRIPs (Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights) and the AoA
(Agreement on Agriculture). These WTO agreements allow transnational
corporations control over every area of our lives -- from healthcare
to education to clean and accessible drinking water. We have no
say in the decisions our government leaders and their corporate
friends are making.
International
GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services)
Sign On Document
October
12, 2001
Announcement
Second International Meeting on the Globalization of Solidarity
-
the social/solidarity-based economy 10/12/2001
Articles on-line : www.mediasol.org
October
11, 2001
Important Women's News / Links
http://dawn.thot.net/rawa.html#news
Saving Women's Lives
NEW factsheet: Women in Afghanistan:
http://www.savingwomenslives.org/afghgan_facts.htm
Thousands of pregnant women are among the Afghan civilians who have fled their homes in recent days and are massed along the country's borders.
The lack of
shelter, food and medical care, and unsanitary conditions pose
a serious risk to these women and their infant children.
Also available:
Factsheets:
http://www.savingwomenslives.org/facts_index.htm
US Attitudes
on Global Issues:
http://www.savingwomenslives.org/public_index.htm
Links to
Projects, Resources, and Organizations:
http://www.savingwomenslives.org/links_index.htm
Upcoming
Events and Latest Media Coverage:
http://www.savingwomenslives.org/news.htm
TOP of page
October 10, 2001
New link added
The Bhutan
Women and Children Organisation (BWCO) has recently launched
their website at http://www.geocities.com/bhutanwomen.
The web site is a work in progress and will be updated periodically.
The website contains information on the status of Bhutanese women and children, basic information on Bhutan, its people, government, judiciary, legislature, human rights situation activities, women’s and children’ rights.
October 9, 2001
Call for ACTION!
We've added a printable letter to Prime
Minister Crétien as part of the Friends
of Lucy Lu campaign to requesthe stay the order to deport
Lucy.
The
text is from the Postcard campaign to support Lucy initiated by
Elizabeth Fry Society of Kingston.
PLEASE print, sign and mail.
No postage required if mailed from Canada.
October
6, 2001
Read the North Bay Nugget article
on the Silent Vigil for Peace and Justice, Against War and
Racism, organized by DAWN Ontario that took place on October
5, 2001
October
4, 2001
Announcement
The Elizabeth Fry Society of Kingston has launched
a postcard campaign to support Lucy
Lu.
DAWN Ontario has a supply of these postcards and we encourage
women to email, call us at
705-494-9078, or drop by the office in North Bay if you would
like to pick one up (free) to send or to have us send one on your
behalf.
September
29, 2001
Announcement
 |
Silent
Vigil For Peace & Justice Against War & Racism
When: Friday, October 5, 2001 11:00 am - 12:00 PM Across the street from 239 Main Street East, North Bay Organized by DAWN Ontario |
We
are expecting a good turnout as Premier Mike Harris is attending
a
ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10:00 am across the street at the DAAY
Centre. North Bayites, bring your family, friends, neighbours,
banners, flags,
stories, candles ...
(The Canadian Women's March Committee is calling on women across Canada to organise vigils for peace and justice and against war and racism on October 5th.)
September
26, 2001
Additions to the site and new links include
Miss
America and Miss Afghanistan - a contrast
Study
on Closed Brain Injury -- participants required
September
22, 2001
Additions to the
site
| Synthia Kavanagh - Transsexual Wins Right to be Housed in Women's Prison | September 22, 2001 |
September 21, 2001
Recommended sites
Mobility
International USA (MIUSA) is a US-based national
non-profit organization whose mission is to empower people with
disabilities around the world through international exchange,
information, technical assistance and training, and to ensure
the inclusion of people with disabilities in international exchange
and development programs.
About
International Development & Disability (IDD)
Learn more about the history of MIUSA’s International Development
& Disability Program (IDD). Read about MIUSA's mission to
promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities at all
levels of the international development process.
Read about how MIUSA works to ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities in international exchange and development programs.
Gender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member Agencies Findings and Recommendations on Inclusion of Women and Men with Disabilities in International Development Programs
Leadership
Development Strategies for Women with Disabilities:
A Cross-cultural Survey by Laura Hershey and Robin Stephens.
Loud,
Proud and Prosperous!®
Microcredit By and For Women with Disabilities: A Pilot Project
September
20, 2001
Announcement:
The
Canadian
Women's Internet Directory
is now online
http://directory.womenspace.ca/
The Canadian Women's Internet Directory links users with Canadian women's equality resources online. The directory connects organizational and individual sites promoting awareness of women’s equality issues, debates, campaigns, activism, creativity, services, research and policy issues.
Search
alphabetically or by keyword, or browse by categories. There are
currently 1145 annotated links for you to choose from in 35 topic
areas!
The Canadian Women's Internet Directory is a resource created by Womenspace Association, with support from Status of Women Canada
September
19, 2001
Recommended sites
WHRNet Women's Human Rights Net
Women Living under muslim laws facilitate information exchange and solidarity between women in Muslim countries and communities
ICHRDD: International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development Canadian institution with an international mandate that initiates, encourages and supports the promotion, development and strengthening of democratic and human rights institutions and programmes through advocacy and capacity building
WOMANKIND Worldwide the only UK charity that has at its heart support for women's economic, political and social equality globally
September
18, 2001
Recommended sites
Isis-Women's International Cross Culture Exchange (Isis-WICCE ) is an action-oriented women's resource centre which was started in 1974 in Geneva, Switzerland. It relocated to Kampala, Uganda at the end of 1993 to try and tap information concerning African women to make it more accessible and available to women worldwide. Isis-WICCE was founded in response to the increasing information needs of women from various regions of the world to communicate ideas, create solidarity networks, and share information to overcome gender related inequalities.
WRAP Women's Rights Advocacy Program The Women's Rights Advocacy Program (WRAP) of the International Human Rights Law Group works to strengthen the capacity of women's groups by disseminating information and providing training in using human rights language and international human rights standards to advocate effectively for women's human rights.
September 17, 2001
Additions to the site and new links include
HUMAN
RIGHTS
- Women with disAbilities
reprinted with permission
from WHRNet
Women's Human Rights Net
How
can Women use the Optional Protocol of CEDAW
Interview with Alison Symington,
a researcher and the Content Development Coordinator of the
Women's Human Rights Resources in Toronto, Canada
Source: Resource Net
September
16, 2001
Additions to the site include
DAWN Ontario has added a link to an online Translator Service that will open a new browser window ... Please select between Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese, and enter the URL (website address) that you want translated.
DAWN Ontario is thrilled to announce that our website has been awarded a Phenomenal Women of the Web Award
September
15, 2001
Call to Action!
How you can help suffering Afghan Women
Please sign the Online Petition of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA condemning the atrocities committed by the fundamentalists in Afghanistan and the Violations of Human Rights, especially WOMEN'S RIGHTS in Afghanistan in the name of Islam.
September 14, 2001
Additions
to the site include:
Petition
re: Taliban Gov't in Afghanistan
Online petition launched
Sept. 14, 2001
Sign the Online Petition
September
13, 2001
Additions
to the site include:
Ms.
Ashley Cowan
DAWN Ontario's vote for Phenomenal Woman!
Petition
re: Taliban Gov't in Afghanistan
This is not an urban legend! From ABC
News: "The Taliban, one of the world's most isolated
and controversial regimes, is considering a proposal to make Hindus
wear identity labels to separate them from the majority Muslim
population in Afghanistan." Sign
the Online Petition
Conference
- Healthy Minds/Healthy Bodies
October 18 - 20, 2001 in London, Ontario
First Conference for Deaf, Deafened and Hard of Hearing Women
A fully accessible province wide health conference for deaf, deafened
and hard of hearing women. (ASL Interpreters; Real Time Captioning;
FM Systems) Contact Bev Pfau
Canadian Hearing Society, London voice: 519-667-3325 tty: 519-667-3323
fax: 519-667-9668
September 12, 2001
Announcement
The DAWN Ontario board of directors wishes to express our profound shock and sadness over this monring's tragedy in the USA. Our prayers and thoughts are with the many victims, their families and friends.
We sincerely hope that leaders from our international community can co-operate in a united goal of eradicating terrorism.
As
The New York Times wisely observed, "What we live with now, beyond
shock and beyond the courage witnessed on the streets in New York
and Washington . . . is an urge for reprisal. But this is an age
when even revenge is complicated, when it is hard to match the
desire for retribution with the need for certainty." Let us remember
that innocent civilians live in those countries we call "enemy."
September 10, 2001
Check out the new Links we've added to our site:
B.a.B.e.
(Be active, Be emancipated)
Follow this link for Croation version
B.a.B.e. is a Women's
Human Rights Group working in Croatia. The word "Babe" (Bah-beh)
in Croatian also means "old hag," a pejorative term for an old
woman. The women of B.a.B.e.
want to give new meaning to this ugly name that is used against
women.South
Easten European Legal Initiative -
SEELINE Project: SEELINE women's network, initiated by
B.a.B.e. (Be
active Be, emancipated) from Croatia; comprised of founding
members from: Albania, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary,
Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Turkey and YugoslaviaWomen,
State, Culture
... on
women in the Balkan region interested in anthropology, women's
studies, women's human rights, activism - site of Kristina
Mihalec
CROW
Magazine - First and
only Women's Ezine in Croatia; "Only those who dare
to be different can make the difference"
Read the ENAWA Press Release
dated August 28th, 2001 Cybersolidaires
Pour les femmes francophones allant droites
à la hauture de leurs rêves dans la solidarité
September
8, 2001
Call for support
50 Years
Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
Demands
for endorsement in advance of the mobilization
at the IMF/World Bank's Joint Annual General Meetingsto be held
in Washington, DC September
28 - October 4, 2001
September
7, 2001
Check out the new Links we've
added to our site:
Gender Consultants Database online database compiled by the BRIDGE, Gender and Development information unit at the Institute of Development Studies, UK
Women's Caucus for the Earth Summit 2002 Articles on Persistent Organic Pollutants and other Environmental issues of concern to women
Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Alert Campaign
rabble.ca
interactive magazine combining the hot energy of activism
with the cool eye of journalism -- Join the rabble!
marigold
40% political rally 60% slumber party Ezine - features
online journals, political news & views, forums and much more;
created by rabble rouser, Audra Estrones
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September
6, 2001
Announcements
United
Nations Special Session on Children
On September 19-21, 2001 for the first time in more than a decade,
a global meeting of government leaders is being held in New York
specifically to discuss how to build a world fit for children.
Participants will review progress since the landmark World Summit
on Children in 1990 and try to agree on what needs to be done.
Women's
Resistance: From Victimization to Criminalization
October 1-3, 2001 | Ottawa
This CAEFS conference is an important opportunity to expand this
network of concerned groups and individuals, and to make further
progress towards achieving women's equality. The Conference, which
will give voice to women who have traditionally been disenfranchised,
will serve as a springboard for longer-term social program, policy
and law reform for women and girls who are criminalized or have
been the victims of violence.
September 5, 2001
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