Frameline 36 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival

Founded in 1977, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival is the longest-running, largest and most widely recognized LGBT film exhibition event in the world. As a community event with an annual attendance of over 55,000, the Festival is the most prominent and well-attended LGBT arts program in the Bay Area.

FRAMELINE36 is a competitive film festival with cash prizes attached to each of our Audience Awards for Best Feature, Best Documentary and Best Short. Frameline36 also has two juried awards for Outstanding First Feature and Outstanding Documentary Feature.

Earlybird Deadline: December 12, 2011 - Free
Regular Deadline: January 23, 2012 - $35.00
Late Deadline: February 13, 2012 - $50.00

The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival accepts online entries submitted via Withoutabox.com, which provides cost-saving, paperless submission to film festivals around the world.

Withoutabox’s internet-only submission platform features online applications via one master entry form, online fee payments, press kits, and the option to use Secure Online Screeners, an economical, eco-friendly, and secure alternative to traditional hard-copy DVD submissions.

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Cornell University Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Events spring 2012

Cornell's Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (FGSS) Program is one of the largest interdisciplinary programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, involving approximately 150 members of the greater Cornell faculty, staff and Ithaca community. It is also historically one of the first university women's studies programs in the country. FGSS offers courses, most of them cross-listed with other departments, in topics ranging from "Sex, Gender, and Communication " to "Women's Activism and Social Change in the Twentieth Century U.S." to "Theories of Reproduction" to "Food, Gender, and Culture." Close to 500 students enroll in courses cross-listed with FGSS.
The Program is governed by an Advisory Committee comprised of faculty, students and staff whose charge is to advise the Director and guide the Program's intellectual direction and sponsored activities; a Core Faculty, comprised of those faculty members who most actively teach and advise in the Program and whose membership also governs tenure review and promotion decisions; and several smaller subcommittees (on Undergraduate and Graduate Affairs, for example), which oversee awards as well as curriculum issues. The Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program welcomes your participation in its governance and encourages faculty, students, and staff to contact the Program Office to become actively involved.

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Arab Film Festival 2011

Our Mission

The mission of the Arab Film Festival (AFF) is to enhance public understanding of Arab culture and to provide alternative representations of Arabs that contradict the stereotypical images frequently encountered in the American mass media. The Arab Film Festival screens films from and about the Arab World that provide realistic perspectives on Arab people, culture, art, history and politics.

Mamlakit Al Nisa'a Ein El Hilweh (The Kingdom of Women: Ein El Hilweh)
Dahna Abourahme
Documentary | Lebanon | 2011 | 54 min.
The story of the women of Ein El Hilweh refugee camp between 1982-1984 is an important chapter in the history of Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon. After the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the camp was destroyed and its men imprisoned. Weaving between past and present, animation and daily life, it documents the community and organizing spirit of the women during this period, how they were able to rebuild the camp, protect and provide for their families while their men were held captive, and honors how women continue to contribute to the survival of the Palestinian community in exile.
SHOWTIMES:

10/14 2:00pm - Buy Tickets
Embarcadero, San Francisco

10/21 5:00pm - Buy Tickets
Shattuck Cinemas, Berkeley

10/22 5:30pm - Buy Tickets
Writers Guild of America Theater, Los Angeles 

Three Veils
Rolla Selbak
Feature Film | USA | 2011 | 117 min.
Set in the US, the lives of three Middle Eastern women intertwine as they struggle to defy tradition and create their own realities. Leila is the stable “girl next door” anticipating what her wedding night will be like. Her sexy, free-spirited friend Nikki is the life of every party but she’s hiding from a dark past. Amira is a shy, religious girl with a rigid, uncompromising mother. Conflicted, her strict upbringing clashes with her seemingly inexplicable desire to be around Nikki all the time. From an arranged marriage and a lesbian love affair to an abusive family situation, the film daringly tackles contemporary issues.
SHOWTIMES:

10/21 7:00pm - Buy Tickets
Shattuck Cinemas, Berkeley

10/23 7:00pm - Buy Tickets
Writers Guild of America Theater, Los Angeles 

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Women as a Force for Economic Change

Diverse panel to discuss opportunities in uncertain economic times
Tue, 09/20/2011

By Gillian Gaynair

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) on Oct. 19 will host “Women: An Emerging Market,” a discussion on how improving women’s ability to earn a living – especially in low- and middle-income countries – can alleviate poverty and drive global economic growth. 

To be held at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C., panelists will be Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, deputy director of the International Monetary Fund, Gayle Smith, special assistant to President Obama and senior director at the National Security Council, and Anju Malhotra, vice president of research, innovation and impact at ICRW. The discussion will be moderated by BBC World News Anchor Katty Kay.

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Panelists are expected to touch on a variety of issues related to how and why women worldwide are increasingly viewed as a force to improve global stability and prosperity. Indeed, The World Bank’s recently-released 2012 world development report, “Gender Equality and Development,” stresses that strengthening women financially – as well as politically and socially – is not only key to global development objectives, it’s also “smart economics.” This may be particularly true in today’s global economic crisis in which foreign aid dollars are decreasing; women could be a promising market for investments that yield multiple returns.

Women: An Emerging Market is the third event in ICRW's 35^th anniversary Passports to Progressdiscussion series, which aims to advance the dialogue on critical issues likely to shape the lives of women and girls in developing countries in the coming years. Earlier gatherings in the series addressed innovations for women and challenges to and solutions for ending violence against women. Prior panelists and moderators included Dr. Rajiv Shah, administrator of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent and filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail Disney. 

Gillian Gaynair is ICRW’s senior writer and editor.

La prostitución y la trata con fines de explotación sexual de las experiencias internacionales y húngaros, los retos y oportunidades para la acción

European Youth Centre Budapest (1024 Budapest, Zivatar u. 1-3.)

La conferencia se ocupará de los aspectos de género de la Unión Europea contra la trata de política y se centrará en las experiencias e iniciativas internacionales en materia de lucha contra la trata y la prostitución.

Organizado por:

• Suecia, EE.UU. y las embajadas de Noruega en Budapest
• Lobby Europeo de Mujeres

[Brussels, 08 September 2011] MONA Foundation for the Women of Hungary, member of the Hungarian Women’s Lobby, is organising a conference on prostitution and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation on 23 September in Budapest. Sexual exploitation and trafficking to this end of primarily women and girls is occurring on a large scale within Hungary, while many Hungarian women and girls are trafficked out of Hungary to other countries in Europe such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Despite this, there is little in Hungary in the way of prevention, protection and prosecution.

This conference is aimed primarily at Hungarian decision-makers and professionals working with the issue and with victims/vulnerable persons and seeks to increase and improve efforts in Hungary in terms of combating the phenomena and assisting victims. The first half of the conference will be about European perspectives and experiences, while the second part will focus on the situation in Hungary and the role of the state.

EWL Policy Officer and Project Coordinator, Pierrette Pape, will speak at the conference, as will former EWL Secretary General and current EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator, Myria Vassiliadou.

Please find below the programme and registration contact.

Prostitution and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation: European and Hungarian experiences, challenges and opportunities for action

Please confirm your participation at the latest by September 16th atmona.alapitvany@gmail.com. Please note that the number of participants will be limited and registration is on a first come, first serve basis.

The conference is being organized with the support of the Swedish, U.S. and Norwegian Embassies in Budapest and the European Women’s Lobby.

English interpretation is provided during the conference.

You can read the programme in Hungarian here.

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Fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women

The fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from Monday, 27 February to Friday, 9 March 2012.

Bureau
Themes
Preparations

Bureau

The Bureau for the 56th session comprises the following members:

• H.E. Ms. Marjon V. Kamara (Liberia) of the African States Group, Chair
• Nomination pending, Asian States Group, Vice-Chair
• Ms. Irina Velichko (Belarus) of the Eastern European States Group, Vice-Chair
• Mr. Carlos Enrique García González (El Salvador) of the Latin American and Caribbean States Group, Vice-Chair
• Nomination pending, Western European and other States Group, Vice-Chair

Themes

Priority theme
The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges

Review theme
Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women (agreed conclusions from the fifty-second session)

Preparations

UN Women in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and World Food Programme (WFP) will convene an expert group meeting (EGM) on 'Enabling rural women's economic empowerment: institutions, opportunities and participation' from 20 to 23 September, 2011 in Accra, Ghana.
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A preparatory expert panel on the priority theme was held during the fifty-fifth session of the Commission on Thursday, 24 February 2011.
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Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

According to the ILO, many countries still don’t recognize domestic work as “work”, denying millions of people labour and social protection under the law. But that’s changing in the United States, thanks to a dedicated group of women.

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Trafficking in Persons Report 2011

Secretary Clinton (June 27): "Every year, we come together to release this report, to take stock of our progress, to make suggestions, and to refine our methods. Today, we are releasing a new report that ranks 184 countries, including our own. One of the innovations when I became Secretary was we were going to also analyze and rank ourselves, because I don’t think it’s fair for us to rank others if we don’t look hard at who we are and what we’re doing. This report is the product of a collaborative process that involves ambassadors and embassies and NGOs as well as our team here in Washington. And it really does give us a snapshot about what’s happening. It shows us where political will and political leadership are making a difference."  Full Text»

The Report

The report is available in HTML format (below) and in PDF format. Due to its large size, the PDF has been separated into sections for easier download: Introductory Material [also available in Arabic | Chinese |French | Persian | Russian | Spanish]; Country Narratives: A-C, D-I, J-M, N-S, T-Z/Special Cases;Relevant International Conventions and Closing Material. To view the PDF file, you will need to download, at no cost, the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Vídeo y toda la información en la web

Sex Trafficking and Exploitation (Vídeo)

A short film on exploitation and sex trafficking by Equality Now, Marta and Apne Aap, featuring Ruchira Gupta and Meena Hasina of Apne Aap.

Insight to Action: Gender and Property Rights

Securing women’s property rights is increasingly recognized as critical to achieving poverty reduction and gender equality. However, many women are unable to realize their rights.
ICRW’s research and program work in gender and property rights aims to advance knowledge on how women’s and men’s property rights are measured and to strengthen community-based programs addressing women’s property rights.
ICRW experts will discuss the results from two programs in sub-Saharan Africa.
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This is a brown bag seminar, with drinks and light snacks provided.
RSVP to Gwenn Hollingworth at ghollingworth@icrw.org or 202.742.1236
Speakers:
Krista Jacobs, Economist
Meredith Saggers, Economist, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
When:
Thursday, June 23, 2011
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Where:
International Center for Research on Women
1120 20th Street N.W. Suite 500 North
Washington, D.C. 20036
United States
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“When She is Safe…” A Conversation on Ending Violence Against Women

Passports to Progress
ICRW's 35th Anniversary Discussion Series
Join ICRW on June 13 at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C., for a conversation on ending violence against women and a sneak preview of "Women, War & Peace." This is the second of our four-part Passports to Progress discussion series.

Moderator:
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, journalist, ICRW board member and author of the New York Times best-seller, "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana"

Speakers:
Abigail Disney, philanthropist, scholar and filmmaker of the acclaimed "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"
Donald Steinberg, deputy administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Mary Ellsberg, vice president of research and programs at ICRW
When: Monday, June 13, 2011
6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Where: The National Press Club
529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20045

© 2011 International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
1120 20th St NW Suite 500 North Washington, D.C. 20036	Tel: 202.797.0007 Fax: 202.797.0020 E-mail: info@icrw.org

Gender-Based Violence in the DRC Brown Bag (IGWG)

Dr. Lynn Lawry of the Department of Defense’s International Health Division will describe her original and unique methodology for measuring GBV prevalence and health services available in conflict areas, and will present her still-embargoed, new data on the DRC.

Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm

RSVP: jghowrwal@prb.org

Local: PRB, 1875 Connecticut Ave., Suite 520, Washington, DC 20009
Date: 20/05/2010

CEDAW: 46th Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

USA, New York, 12 - 30 July 2010 
Host / Sponsor: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women will hold its fortysixth session from 12 - 30 July 2010. 
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Conference: Emerging Technologies and Treatment in Women’s Health

Date: 02.05.10 – 05.05.10
Location: Canada – Hyatt Regency Hotel, Montreal, Quebec

The International Society for Emerging Technologies and Treatment in Women's Health is holding its first annual conference in Montreal, Quebec, from 2-5 May, 2010.

In the past several decades numerous treatments and devices have been introduced into the armamentarium to treat disorders and diseases in women. While many of these innovations have proven their value in reducing pain and suffering and improving patient quality of life, no international body has existed to evaluate their safety, efficacy and cost effectiveness.

The conference will focus on emerging technologies and address issues related to advances in minimally invasive surgery, including robotic surgery and natural orifice intraluminal endoscopic surgery, ultrasound technologies, treatment of uterine fibroids with embolization and focused ultrasound, and advances in assisted reproductive technologies including in-vitro maturation treatment and fertility preservation. New treatment or new indication of existing treatment and state of the art image-capturing in medicine will also be discussed.

Based in Montreal, the International Society for Emerging Technologies and Treatment in Women’s Health is composed of leading clinicians and researchers, whose goal is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of emerging technologies in women’s health.

Sponsored by: International Society for Emerging Technologies and Treatment in Women’s Health

Contact:
Daniele Chapman, Felicissimo Rossie International

Tel: +1 514-874-1998
Fax: +1 514-874-1580

For more details, visit the event web page.

Women in the Heights – Contemporary Women Artists of Northern Manhattan

Date: 04.03.10 – 30.04.10

Location: United States – Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) Gallery, 178 Bennett Avenue, 3rd Floor (at 189th Street), New York City.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) presents Women in the Heights – Contemporary Women Artists of Northern Manhattan, an exhibition displaying works by 24 women artists residing in Washington Heights and Inwood, New York City, curated by Andrea Arroyo.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 4, 6–8 p.m.
RSVP: +1 212 568-4396 • info[at]nomaanyc.org

Location: Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) Gallery, 178 Bennett Avenue, 3rd Floor (at 189th Street)
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and by appointment (call +1 212 568-4396)

Artists: Patricia Acero • Alejandra Barahona • Anna Campbell • Patricia Cox • Andrea Cukier • Michelle Orsi Gordon • Elissa Gore • Kathleen Granados • Laurence Groux • Arlette Landestoy • Beatrice Lebreton • Meri Leon Hernandez • Lilia Levin • Trish Mayo • Dindga McCannon • Ingrid Menendez • Rosa Naparstek • Eva Nikolova • Kristine Paulus • Anca Pedvisocar • Diana Schmertz • Renata Stein • Carla Torres • Sheryl Zacharia

Sponsored by: Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA)

Contact:
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA)

Tel: +1 212 568-4396

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Film Festival: Through Women’s Eyes

Date: 10.04.10 – 18.04.10
Location: United States – Sarasota, Florida
The aspirations, challenges and triumphs that define women’s lives around the globe will be brought to the screen Through Women’s Eyesfrom 10-11 April at Regal Cinemas Hollywood 20, with encore screenings through April 18.

Presented by the Gulf Coast Chapter of the US National Committee for UNIFEM, the annual event celebrates women filmmakers, increases awareness of women’s issues and raises money for the women’s fund at the United Nations.

For the first time, the Gulf Coast Chapter is partnering with theSarasota Film Festival from 9-18 April to present both film programs. Through this partnership, two of the longest-running film festivals in Sarasota hope to broaden and enrich the festival experience for filmgoers and filmmakers by presenting 160 domestic and international films during the 10-day festival.

For more details, visit the event web page.

ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE: Strategic Imperatives for Ending Violence against Women Linkages to Education, Economic Security, and Health

When:  June 11 and 12, 2010

Where:  Hunter College, West Wing, East 68^th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City

What:  A conference to build collaborations to understand the intersections between violence against women and key social investments: the economy, health and education. Convening leaders from business, academia, philanthropy, advocacy, nonprofit and policy communities, the conference provides participants with a better understanding of UNIFEM programs and funded projects, breaking research within the NCRW member center network, and advocacy and policy initiatives. Speakers will highlight a comprehensive approach to end gender-based violence through specific actions, building communities and leadership.

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The Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the competition for the 2011 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship.  Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars.

The Catharine Stimpson Prize is awarded biannually to the best paper in an international competition.  Leading feminist scholars from around the globe will select the winner.  The prize-winning paper will be published inSigns, and the author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All papers submitted for the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review and possible publication in Signs.

Eligibility:  Feminist scholars in the early years of their careers (less than seven years since receipt of the terminal degree) are invited to submit papers for the Stimpson Prize.  Papers may be on any topic that falls within the broad rubric of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. Papers submitted for the prize must be no longer than 10,000 words and must conform to the guidelines for Signs contributors.  Guidelines for submission are available athttp://www.journals.uchicago.edu/page/signs/instruct.html.

Women Deliver global conference on Delivering solutions for girls and women

Location: Washington, DC, USA
Date: 7-9 June 2010
The Women Deliver global conference, held in Washington DC on June 7-9, 2010, will focus on the theme: Delivering solutions for girls and women.
Girls and women are the solution; not the problem. And by bringing together experts and creative thinkers in not only maternal health and mortality but also human rights, gender, HIV and AIDS, education, micro-enterprise, sexual and reproductive health, including family planning, and more, we can show the world that it’s time to deliver for women and that it is, in fact, a good investment.
Scholarships
Women Deliver is committed to making Women Deliver 2010 accessible to individuals from all over the world, and will offer full conference scholarships to selected candidates. Fill out a scholarship application now http://www.womendeliver.org/conference2010/scholarship.htm

15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000)

15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and the 

outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000)

Toda la información en:

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/index.html