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  1. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  2. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  3. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  4. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  5. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  6. Daughters of India Violated and Abused
    A Woman's Lot

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Widespread sexual abuse rapes the land and inflicts harm upon the women of India who are isolated from the emerging "New India".
  7. Female UNPOL Officers participate in Secretary General Report
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) is advancing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820 (UN SCR 1820), which addresses the prevention of sexual violence in conflict zones, by bringing United Nations Police (UNPOL) officers to the Security
  8. Feminist Resistance in Serbia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    Describes the conditions and factors influencing women’s lives in Serbia in 1995, and the ways women have organised to resist violence and assist one another.
  9. Headscarves and Hymens
    Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    A condemnation of the repressive political, cultural, and religious forces that reduce millions of women to second-class citizens.
  10. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
    Book Review

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    One afternoon earlier this year, I stepped into the carriage of a Cairo metro train. I was on the way home from interviewing female students - all of them devout, veiled Muslims - who had been snatched off the street and sexually assaulted by police for protesting against the military regime. It was hard for them to speak openly about the attacks for fear of shaming their families and destroying their own chances of marriage.
  11. How To Make India Safer For Women
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    What’s to be done to make India, a country where women are veneered in the temple and beaten at home, safer for women?
  12. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
  13. Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
  14. Nepalese journalist and women's rights activist brutally murdered
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Uma Singh, a Nepalese journalist and human rights activist who worked for the Janakpur Today Daily and Radio Today FM was brutually murdered on January 11.
  15. Still ain't satisfied
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  16. VAWA Must Pass to Protect All Women, Regardless of Race
    The Fight Ahead

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    No woman deserves to be beaten, raped, or killed, regardless of her race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
  17. The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan 'neither veil nor submission' has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
  18. Who Cares?
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
  19. Why is India so bad for women?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
  20. Woman at Point Zero
    Resource Type: Book
    From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.
  21. Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence in the Caribbean
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings, a women's right activist, regarding the severity of sexual violence towards women and girls in Jamaica.

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