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EVENTS

1. NGOs

NEWS

1. ICT
2. Middle-East

REPORTS & BOOKS & ARTICLES

1. Trade/Economics/Microfinance
2. Youth
3. NGOs
4. ICT
5. Gender
6. Poverty

WEBSITES

CONFERENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Launch of the Arab Human Rights Fund
Advancing Women's Rights via Strategic Partnership Grants - Open Society Institute
International Coalition Launches Groundbreaking Disability Rights Fund
First World Conference Of Women’s Shelters
Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR): Sexuality Institute 2008

NEWS & ARTICLES
HUMAN RIGHTS
Iran Anti-Vice Chief 'In Brothel'
GENDER

CONFERENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Arab Human Rights Fund – AHRF – Call for Grant Application
European Commission calls for proposals to boost gender equality

NEWS & ARTICLES
GENDER
GENDER RIGHTS
Saudi Women Make Video Protest
… As Such, Shura Council Recommends Allowing Saudi Women to Drive With Limitations
… But Council of “Supreme Scholars” Rejects the Appointment of Women
Saudi Government Invites Human Rights Watch to Visit

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CONFERENCES & OPPORTUNITIES
Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

NEWS
GENDER
WOMEN’S VOICES
Turkish Women Condemn Turkey Constitution
GENDER RIGHTS
15 October 2007 - World Rural Women’s Day - Open Letter to Rural Women of the World
UNIFEM and Women’s Funding Network Call for Investment to End Global Poverty

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EVENTS
DEVELOPMENT
NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq: NGO Workshop and Conference, Amman/Jordan, 2005  
Prince Sultan Bin AbdulAziz International Prize for Water; Deadline December 31, 2005
HEALTH
Global forum for health research: Forum 10 – Combating disease and promoting health: call for abstracts, deadline 31 January 2006
NEWS
ENVIRONMENT
Quarries continue to damage the environment in Lebanon

DEVELOPMENT

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EVENTS
DEVELOPMENT
ESCWA opens four-day seminar on water governance
Run for Social Development - Marathon attracts 17,000 people in Lebanon

GENDER
Lebanese American University conference highlights need to end gender disparity

NEWS
HEALTH
Fund seeks to eliminate child deaths from heart disease – Lebanon
Saudi Arabia should export its AIDS awareness campaign

CULTURE
What does citizenship mean to you?

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EVENTS
MEDIA
 International Executive Media and Television Workshop, Cairo (Jan 16 - 19 2006)

NEWS
GENDER
Regional project launched to encourage and engender investigative reporting
Woman bids for election to KSA engineers' syndicate
Runaway Afghan women find no refuge in the cold
SUDAN: Dealing with Gender Violence through Music

HUMAN RIGHTS
U.S. suspends publication of Arab youth magazine

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EVENTS
DEMOCRACY
Arab activists meet to discuss democracy / Bahrain - November 8.
Notre Dame University in Lebanon hosts 'Democracy and Decentralization' conference

GENDER
Gender & Conflict Transformation Jan 9 - Feb 3 2006 - Online Course
Workshop about disabled Arab women – Manama – Bahrain 11/13 November 05

HEALTH

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