 The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and building communities, IWTC provides communication, information, education, and organizing support services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of women, particularly low-income women, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia. More...
#336: GOVERNMENTS FAIL TO MEET HIV/AIDS GOALS FOR WOMEN
Women’s
organizations from around the world held a strong and critical presence at the United
Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS in New York where
147 governments convened, from June 9 to 11, to report on their progress in
accomplishing global, national and regional goals that are to be met by 2010 to
curb the spread of HIV/AIDS. These targets and priorities were agreed upon in
the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS that was adopted by 189 countries
during a previous UNGASS on HIV/AIDS in 2001. The declaration outlines priority
areas for international action such as leadership, prevention, treatment, human
rights, and resources needed to fund a successful response to the epidemic. It
contains 66 goals, 12 of which specifically refer to the intersection between
gender inequality and HIV/AIDS, including commitments to decrease women’s vulnerability
to HIV infection by eliminating all forms of discrimination against women,
including violence against women and girls; creating national strategies to
promote women’s human rights; More...
This collection of official
documents and analysis on financing for gender equality as well as practical
materials related to fundraising was originally produced as a CD-ROM and
distributed during the 52nd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status
of Women. The theme of the commission was ‘Financing for Gender Equality and
the Empowerment of Women.’
In
light of upcoming conferences such as the Follow-up
International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the
Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, to be held in November in
Doha, IWTC is hosting the collection on its website to support
informed participation in debates and discussions around the
gender-specific
aspects of these issues. More...
IWTC has produced four sets of prototype radio programs about UNSCR 1325 in partnership with community broadcasters and women's organizations in the Philippines, Uganda, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Click here to find out more and listen in...
What is UNSCR 1325?
What is the UN Security Council Resolution 1325? It’s a landmark document that marks the first time the UN Security Council addressed the disproportionate and unique impact of armed conflict on women and recognized their contributions to conflict prevention, peacekeeping, conflict resolution and peace-building. This same document stressed the importance of women’s equal and full participation as active agents in peace and security.
Download the simplified version of UNSCR 1325 [Plain Text] [PDF]
Download the full version of UNSCR 1325 [Plain text] [PDF]
 Women, Ink. is the bookstore of the International Women’s Tribune Centre (IWTC) that markets and distributes resources that focus on the perspectives of women from developing nations or in United Nations language, the Global South. Women, Ink. has a strong committment to giving visibility to books published in the Global South and continuously updates and includes new resources that meet the needs of women worldwide. Women, Ink. carries materials from international organizations and small presses in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. New resources are always welcome. More...
 The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (NGOWG) was formed in May 2000 to successfully advocate for a UN Security Council Resolution (SCR) on women, peace and security. This was achieved collaboratively with the unanimous adoption of SCR 1325 on 31 October 2000. Now, the NGOWG advocates for and monitors the participation of women, prevention of conflict and protection of all civilians, to ensure full and rapid implementation of SCR 1325’s promises.
 Giving a voice to issues of significant importance to women’s lives in the present global and local contexts, using community and commercial radio, internet radio, written press (women owned and mainstream media),
electronic lists and TV news.
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