IN THIS ISSUE

CONFERENCES & OPPORTUNITIES
UN Call for Participation - Civil Society Questionnaire: Human Rights and Disability

NEWS
GENDER
GENDERED SOCIAL, LEGAL & POLITICAL RIGHTS
Egypt to Strengthen Penalties against Female Circumcision
.. and a Code of Punishment for Adultery in Iran
Women Activists Prepare First-ever CEDAW Shadow Report in Jordan
'Honor Killing' in Italy Spurs Quest for Justice
… and Lebanon's top Shiite Muslim cleric bans it (honor killings)
Saudi Arabia Jails Man for Taking a Woman to Hospital (AFP)
Two more Iranian women's rights activists sentenced

REPORTS, BOOKS & ARTICLES
GENDER
GENDER RIGHTS
Well-Off Fleeing Iraq Find Poverty and Pain in Jordan - War Displaced Women & Girls
Military Prostitution and the Iraq Occupation: Privatizing Women
Girls Should Be In Classrooms, Not Marriages
CEDAW Shadow Report Highlights Persisting Discriminative Laws in Yemen
GENDER, ECONOMY & TRADE
Solving all of the Country's Problems - With a Puppet Show
Women's Economic Empowerment: Meeting the Needs of Impoverished Women
Status and Progress of Women in the Middle East and North Africa (2007)
Towards Islamic Microfinance: a Primer

GENDER & POLITICS
More Pakistani Women’s Representation Must for Winning Elections
Jordan Government Pledges to Amend Discriminatory Laws
... and Indian Leader Vows to Empower Women as well…

DEVELOPMENT
The Political and Social Economy of Care in a Development Context: Conceptual Issues, Research Questions and Policy Options
NGOs
Registration of human rights organization in Lebanon delayed
Restrictive amendments to NGO law planned in Egypt

RESOURCES & TRAINING MATERIALS
Revisiting Gender Training: the Making and Remaking of Gender Knowledge – A New Global Source Book on Gender Training
ILO Participatory Gender Audit (English, French and Spanish)
DOCUMENTARIES
Desert Nights: part 1 – 6
Trafficking of Woman and Girls from Armenia to Dubai, UAE...Trafficking sex Armenian Arab UAE Dubai
Documentary Film on Problems of Street Girls - Interview With Director Tahani Rashed
Moroccan Female Preachers -AlJazeera Everywoman Video
League of Arab States Pact - For Gender Reference - March 22, 1945
NGO & PROGRAMME PROFILE
Women on the Rise! - United States
Mama Cash Grants