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December 2009 Year-ender issue: Way Forward to COP 16
INTERMOVEMENTS Population control in COP 15: Thankfully ignored in a derailed process Climate change refugees: Unpromising and compromised exodus Beneath and Beyond the Skyscrapers: Women, Cities and Climate Change Women discouraged by COP outcome – but committed to hope and action for 2010 Statement of the Women and Gender Constituency at the Closing Plenary of COP 15 COP 15: When there are no people, how can there be women? COP 15: Good Chances for Gender Text but Still Bad for the People From the Bella Centre to the Bars and the Streets People at COP 15: Reclaiming Power Finland: Still the Gender Champion
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA The Story of Cap & Trade: Why you can’t solve a problem with the thinking that created it
September 2009, double issue: A Testy Toast: Patricia Licuanan on AP NGO
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Australia and Beijing + 15: Innovating Tested Ways, Articulating New Politics Pakistan strengthens national and SA stance on Beijing + 15 Not to be Gagged: Philippine Process on Beijing + 15 Kathmandu Declaration
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA More Perils than Prospects in Persistent Politics: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Gains and Gaps in the Philippine Magna Carta of Women Nepal: Taiming the Political Tide for Beijing+15 Iran in Taraneh: Rape in Prisons
INTERMOVEMENTS Aung San Suu Kyi Verdict: Not Surprisingly but Certainly Painful After Medical Gains in HIV, Time to Cure Social Inequities
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA AMARC Commences Second Phase of Community Radio Management and Advanced Radio Production Training for the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), India
INTERMOVEMENTS A Leader Even in Death: Philippine First Woman
MOVEMENTS WITHIN More Grounds to be Gained: Sexual Harassment Policies in Bangladesh Feminist Approach to Sex Birth Ratio in China Women Laud Rashida Manjoo as new UN VAW Special Rapporteur Solomon Islands Parliament strides toward gender equality in sexual assault law
Special Feature: HARVEST REAPED BUT HARD TO REACH The Food Crisis and Women in the Global South
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Iranian feminist Shadi Sadr kidnapped AP NGO Forum on Beijing+15: A Note on Parallel Workshop Sessions
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA Conundrum on Community Radios in Thailand Not Yet Developed: The Other Stories of the Urumqi Riots
Special Feature: HARVEST REAPED BUT HARD TO REACH Inseparable: The Crucial Role of Women in Food Security Revisited 12 Years After: Still No Shortcut to Food Security
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA Media as a Magnifying Glass in Iran APWW tackles strong links between media and feminist advocacies
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Chinese Women's NGOs Conference Heralds Beijing+15 Campaign High Diplomacy and Fragile Consensus Limit UN to Development Cooperation
INTERMOVEMENTS We are all Honduras, We resist!
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing +15
INTERMOVEMENTS Still a Suspense in India’s Exciting Elections A Valley of Tears in Pakistan The Mirror that is Mexico on Influenza A (H1N1)
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA Communicating Change: Yet Another Important but Ignored BFPA Item Call for Applications: Women Making Airwaves for Peace (WMAP)
PDF ) MOVEMENTS WITHIN More to Demand towards Beijing +15 Enough is Enough, Its Time for UN to Act Immediately
INTERMOVEMENTS Still Burning Embers in Sri Lanka IDPs in Southern Philippines: More Scared for Life than Hungry for Food
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA New WIA Issue Out Now: Harvest Reaped but Hard to Reach: The Food Crisis and Women in the Global South “Painless” Universal Internet Access Proposed in RP
PDF )INTERMOVEMENTS Reject Transphobia, Respect Gender Identity Unending Escape for Survival in Sri Lanka When the Reds had their turn in Thailand Urgent Need to Ensure Developing Countries Have Fair Access to Influenza Anti-virals and Vaccines
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Subic Rape Case: Indeed A Nightmare in US-RP Military Relations In 100 days, Obama scored big for women of colour
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA WACC Statement on World Press Freedom Day
PDF )COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA Fijian Media: Groping in the Dark Thai engineer gets 10 year-jail term under lese majeste laws
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Charlotte Bunch on UN and VAW In Gaza, Policewomen Get Back to Starting Out
INTERMOVEMENTS Timor-Leste: Gently combating harmful childbirth traditions
PDF )INTERMOVEMENTS Degrees towards Destruction: Women and Climate Justice Food Sovereignty: Reiterating the Right to Food
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Baffling: New Twist in the Subic Rape Case May Renew RP-US Military Agreement Pursuit of the Past: Afghanistan’s New Law Allows Marital Rape
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA End Ban on Opposition Papers: Two Newspapers Shut Down Ahead of Elections AMARC condemns the attack on Community Radio Mukti in Nepal
PDF ) MOVEMENTS WITHIN 53rd CSW comes to an end, notes culture of care-giving Staying Alive: Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines IWD 2009: Women at every turn
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA Yet Again - Web Crackdown in Thailand Pakistan's airwaves: On militant turf, Radio Khyber offers a softer voice
INTERMOVEMENTS Israel Elections: Chances for Peace in a Poll during Conflict? The Monrovia Declaration
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Partnerships between Women and Men at the 53rd CSW Building a United Nations that Really Works for All Women
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA Gender Equality in Community Radio has many Languages Airing Angsts and Alternatives: Women Speak on the Global Crises Eyeing Breastfeeding in Emergencies: WABA launches photography contest
INTERMOVEMENTS Surfacing Women’s Stories of Living a Life of Peace despite Conflicts Truth at the Dictates of War: Displaced Civilians Accused and Hurt by Soldiers in Southern Philippines
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Deliberately Vague Verdict: Iranian feminists call for Alieh's immediate release In Marks and Brackets: Philippine solons debate on Magna Carta of Women Declaration of the Women's Assembly at the World Social Forum 2009
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA Stifling Air in the Valley: Jordan rejects license for women's and 12 other community radios Perusing Progress, Asserting Accountabilities: UNIFEM's /Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009/
INTERMOVEMENTS Declaration of the Social Movements' Assembly at the World Social Forum 2009
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Obama: A Great Leap Forward for Southern Women? Development alternatives from a gender and south perspective
INTERMOVEMENTS Beyond China's Sanlu Verdict: Strain of Capitalism “Wipe out WEF,” Swiss activists say despite violent dispersal
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA A novel wedding ceremony challenges the conventional culture in rural China Israel lifts ban on foreign journalists into Gaza
MOVEMENTS WITHIN Feminist Dialogues 2009 at WSF Feminist journalist and activist killed, VAW still nebulous in Nepal
COMMUNITY AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA Lese majeste invading Thai cyberspace AMARC at WSF 2009: Broadcasting from Belem to the World
INTERMOVEMENTS Harsh War in Gaza, Harder Times for Women A Time for Peace, A Time for Women
