Update #22: July 29, 2002

1. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - website
2. Conference November 2002: Social Action vs. The Disease Model: The Medicalization of Domestic Violence"
3. WHO website on the World Report on VIolence and Health
4. Turning the Tide: CEDAW andthe Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, UNIFEM, 2001
5. Profiles of new members

1. WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM - WEBSITE
URL: www.peacewomen.org
Peace Women is an project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, www.wilpf.int.ch. It was inspired by the process that led to the Security Council debating and passing Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Through its involvement in pushing for this Security Council open debate with other NGOs, WILPF representatives saw the need to bring together information and women activists working for peace at the local, national, regional, sub-regional and international levels. PeaceWomen.org also offers an Internship Program. The PeaceWomen Website contains:
1. Databases of
- Women's peace organization working locally, nationally, sub-regionally, regionally, internationally;
- Governmental programmes specifically on women and peace
- UN programmes in the field and at UN centers, specifically on women and peace.

2. United Nations focused information
- A mapping of UN gender focal points
- A mapping of UN departments, agencies and processes and the activities, resolution that they are producing
- Information services on developments in the Security Council on country situations
- Information about the relevant personnel and activities of UN peacekeeping operations

3. General Information and Resources on Women and Peace
- Reports and analysis of women's organizations
- Annotated bibliography on the issue of women and peace, a history of the development, summaries of major texts.

4. Campaigns
- Contain outreach materials and campaign efforts of various women's organizations, positions, fact sheets, aid requests etc.
- 10 featured Campaigns a month

2. CONFERENCE, NOV. 2002: SOCIAL ACTION VS. THE DISEASE MODEL: THE MEDICALIZATION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, Oak Brook, Illinois, November 18-20, 2002
From: Heather Russell, russell@ilcadv.org
Website for training: www.ilcadv.org/training/default.asp
Hosted by the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence and others. Keynote speakers are Gladys Cogswell, R. Emerson Dobash, RUssell P. Dobash, Jeffrey Edieson, Sujata Warner, and Carole Warshaw. For more information, and to register, see website.

3. WHO WORLD REPORT ON VIOLENCE AND HEALTH -- IS NOW ONLINE
From: Sabine van Tuyll, vantuylls@who.int  
Entire document, and much more, is available online at: www.who.int./violence_injury_prevention

4. TURNING THE TIDE: CEDAW AND THE GENDER DIMENSIONS OF THE HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC, UNIFEM, 2001
Available in full text at:
http://www.unifem.org/resources/item_detail.php?ProductID=13 or by contacting Women Ink, Turning the Tide contributes to understanding how the world's foremost blueprint for women's human rights can be put to work to addres the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a gender perspective. The publication discusses different aspectgs of the pandemic for which CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) has special relevance, such as gender-based violence and sexual exploitation, access to health services, gender inequality and safer sex, and issues of care and care-giving. The book also contains some of the key government responses that are required under CEDAW, guiding articles of the Convention, and statements of the CEDAW committee that relate to HIV/AIDS.

5. PROFILES OF NEW MEMBERS 

HILDEBARD HELLBERND
MPH
Technical University
Berlin, Germany
We are monitoring the implementation of the first intervention-project against domestic violence in a hospital in Germany.

SUJATA KHANDEKAR
Secretary and Coordinator
CORO for Literacy
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
CORO (Committee of Resource organisations) for literacy is a nonprofit organisations established in 1989 mainly to propagate literacy in urbal slums of Mumbai and later turned into integrated community development organisation with women at its leadership. The literacy initiated efforts have been institutionlised into formation of federation of aroud 300 graassroots women's groups inthe workarea. CORO has developed a trg module on legal literacy for community women and coordinates a network of 23 community women run counseling and case registration centres in the slum area. The federation works as a pressure group in dealing with violence cases and small/ large meetings, rallys, demonstration, liasoning with police administration form integral part of the campaign. CORO, since last 7 years has dealt with more than 2500 domestic violence cases.

LAMI ATTA-AHMED
International Humnan Rights Law Group
Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria
We are working on constitutional reforms , transparency and accountability, freedom of information, HIV/AIDS and humanrights, reproductive health and health care, environmental degradation laws, electoral reforms, and election monitoring.

MARY J. MCGRAIL
Coordinator of Domestic Violence Outreach
Catholic Social Services
Fall River, Massachusetts USA
Catholic Social Services provides an array of services to those in need, one of which is domestic violence outreach. We are fortunate to have multiple bi-lingual advocates who work extensively with immigrant populations. Currently I am working on designing a resource manual for domestic violence that we will be used to train faith -based leaders and faith communities about domestic violence.

NIKKI PARATORE
Director, Batterer Intervention Program Services
Massachusetts Department of PUblic Health
Boston, Massachusetts USA
I oversee batterer intervention programs for compliance with state guidelines and standards