IN THIS ISSUE

CONFERENCES & OPPORTUNITIES
Women's eNews
Promoting Women's Legal Rights Internationally - Discussion, Washington DC

NEWS
Victory for Women in Turkey: New Penal Code Recognizes Women's Bodily Integrity, Sexual Rights
Aurora Launches International Women's Day Website

REPORTS & BOOKS & ARTICLES
GENDER
GENDER & TRADE
Gender and Economic Reforms
GENDER & DEVELOPMENT
Accountability to the World's Women: Progress of South Asian Women 2005
Women and Poverty
Why Gender Action No Longer Engages in PRSPs
The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development
IRAQ: Haifa Waleed - "I prefer to be illiterate than to die"
Landless women, hopeless women: Gender, land and decentralization in Niger
GENDER & HEALTH
Fertility Change in Egypt: From Second to Third Birth
GENDER RIGHTS
Council of Europe Campaign to combat violence against women, including Domestic Violence
Gender, Sexuality and the Criminal Laws in the Middle East and North Africa: A Comparative Study
Creating Gender: The Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy
The Global Gender Gap Report 2006
GENDER & ICT
Engendering ICT for Development and the Role of Women in ICT-based Knowledge Economy
The Impact of IT and Globalization on Women's Work
ECONOMY & TRADE
Buy fair: a guide to the public purchasing of Fair Trade products
HEALTH
Hunger 2007: Healthy Food, Farms & Families
Health Promotion Practice: Building Empowered Communities by Glenn Laverack

RESOURCES & SOURCE BOOKS
TRAINING MANUALS
Group approach to poverty reduction
Shedding abuse: a course for men who use domestic violence
NGO PROFILE
The Heinrich Böll Foundation
The Fares Foundation
Grameen Foundation - The Arab World (Middle East/North Africa)
Ajialcom, Morocco Empowering Youth through Technology
The Department of Gender, Women and Health (GWH)
Arab Women Organization of Jordan (AWO)
Women Empowerment and HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh