WRI Newsletter 5th Edition December 2005
Editorial
This
is the last e-newsletter for this year. We hope that you have enjoyed receiving
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HOW YOU CAN HELP WRI
If you can give us information about recent changes in
legislation in your country which protects widows from discrimination,
or new social policies which are aimed at supporting widows who live in
poverty, this is of great help to our research effort. Just
send us an email with the details.
If you can provide us with really good statistics about the
number of widows in your country, whether they are in rural or urban areas,
and whether they are between 15-29, 30-59 or 60 and over, this is also very
useful information.
If you have good and detailed information about struggles
widows in your country are waging, or victories they have won through the courts,
please let us know. All this information is very helpful for us
in compiling our picture of the position and condition of widows and what needs
to be done by governments and international agencies to remedy social injustices.
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Have a festive season!
The Trustees
New WIDO Case Studies
Two more case studies from our WIDO partners in Nigeria
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Woman of Purpose - Uganda
A case study from WOP in Uganda
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Women's Inheritance - India
Article in the Indian Express by Bina Agarwal, Author
of 'A field of her own'
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Women's Inheritance - Nigeria
Summary of a research project paper by Vanessa Emery JD/MSW, former
student of the University of Toronto
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India Women's United Nations Report Network (WUNRN) Workshop
Declaration from Workshop Organised by The Guild of Service and Supported
by UNIFEM
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Widows and Orphans Ministry - Ghana
Research on inheritance in four communities
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Dr. Mohini Giri (The Guild Service, Delhi) at the University of New England
Dr. Mohini V. Giri addressed a packed room of approximately 200
at the University of New England on the situation of widows in India
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A Case study from the Sradhanjali Charitable Trust
A case sent by Mr Anukul Nayak, Managing Trustee of Sradhanjali Charitable
Trust
Bhubaneswar, India.
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