International Women's Day 2008

The theme for this year's International Women's Day, celebrated each year on March 8, is Investing in Women and Girls.  With it's roots in the early 1900s, International Women's Day was first recognized by the United Nations in 1975, during International Women's Year. Locally, the Advocates for Human Rights and the Human Rights Program at the U of MN are sponsoring the 13th Annual International Women's Day Celebration on March 15 at Coffman Memorial Union. web sites | books | related topics

Web Sites

International Women's Day -- from the United Nations' WomenWatch. 
Also see the UN Cyberschool Bus site.

International Women's Day 2008

Other Web Sites

Amnesty International: Women's Human Rights

Council of Women World Leaders -- "A network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers. The Council currently has 35 Members."

Democracy Dialogues: Women's Rights -- from the U.S. Department of State

Human Rights Watch: Women's Rights

Women's Human Rights -- links to online documents from the U of Minnesota's Human Rights Library

Women and Nation-Building -- this 213 page report from the Rand Corporation "takes a close look at the role of women in the recent reconstruction activities in Afghanistan and its impact"

Books

Reference Books: located in the Reference Section of the St. Paul campus library

• Encyclopedia of the United Nations
  KZ 4968 .M66 2002
  see the articles "United Nations Development Fund for Women," "Women" and "World Conferences on Women"
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide
  this 6 volume set provides country-by-country information on the status of issues important to women
• The Human Rights Encyclopedia
  JC 571 .L523 2001
  see the United Nations human rights documents at the end of volume 3, especially "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women" (p. 1002) and "Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women" (p. 1009)
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
  HQ 1121 .O93 2008
  see "International Women's Day" in vol. 2
• Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women
  HQ 1115 .R69 2000
  see "International Women's Day" in vol. 3

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