TRAINING MANUALS AND COMMUNITY ACTION GUIDES

• Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important United Nations Treaties on Women’s Human Rights—Written in simple non-legal language, Rights of Women provides a comprehensive review of women’s human rights as defined by the most important United Nations human rights treatises. The book takes a "right by right" approach in describing the relevant conventions and includes effective strategies for using international law to better women’s human rights—from hosting a local tribunal to building a human rights community via the internet. The manual also supplies a list of women’s human rights resources, regional ratification charts indicating which country has signed which treaties, and the full text of key international human rights documents.
  
  
• Women! Policy! Action!: A Community Action Guide to the Beijing Platform for Action—This advocacy guide from IWTC, based on the Beijing Platform for Action, includes sections on the 12 critical areas of concern with an emphasis on the strategic objectives and action to be taken and the international conventions that support these objectives. A section on resources for action includes selected books, web sites, and initiatives.