Extract from a message to opening plenary of the 2001 conference by Mrs Graça Machel
....Many widows are hounded from their homes and denied access to essential resources such as shelter and land to grow food. They are also subject to degrading and life-threatening traditional practices. They have no status and often they are figures of shame and ridicule.
Widows Rights International
Recent News & Events
International Widows Day June 23rd in London
Two of our partners made presentations on their work at a conference organised by the Loomba Trust.
Transforming communities and changing widows’ lives in Uganda
Jane Opolot (Hope for Widows Project)
Case Studies from Nigeria
Eleanor Nwadinobi (WiDO)
This date was chosen as in remembrance of Mr Loomba’s mother, Shrimati Pushpa Wati Loomba who, left as a young widow at the age of 37, had the daunting task of bringing up 7 children.
The conference was followed by a Bollywood concert in Central London.
International Widows Day has been marked by different events throughout the world. At the Commonwealth Secretariat in London the Rt Hon Don Mc Kinnon made a strong speech on the conditions of widows. You can find this speech or listen to it on the Commonwealth website
Photographic Essay
White Shadows - Widows living in Vrindavan
White Shadows is a photographic essay of widows living in Vrindavan. These women are destitute and reliant for their survival on charitable foundations and charities set up by wealthy Indian families, and on daily alms from pilgrims visiting the holy town. Since they usually wear white saris, as a mark of having renounced all lifes material pleasures, they appeared to me as fleeting shadows swathed in white. Both non-Flash and Flash versions are available. Visit the White Shadows website and see Tewfic -El-Sawy's stunning and evocative photographs>>
Widows Rites, Rights & Wrongs
1st March in New York
International Event Organised by Widows’ Rights International (WRI)
Dramatic Re-enactment of Widows’ lives From their own stories
Organised by WIDOWS' RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL
Wednesday 1 March 2006
Interactive Discussions
Reaffirmation of Widow’s Declaration
1.15-2.45
Baha’i International Community Office
866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 120,
New York
Supported by Ashish (India),
Astha (India), WiDO (Nigeria), AWEC (Afghanistan), WOP (Uganda)
Organised
by Widows' Rights International
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WRI Newsletter
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Research Updates: 
Summary of a research project paper on inheritance rights in Nigeria
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Widows and Orphans Ministry (Ghana) Research on inheritance in four communities
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Research project into widow’s inheritance rights in Ghana
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Women's Inheritance - India
Article in the India Times by Bina Agarwal, Author
of 'A field of her own' 
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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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Dr. Mohini Giri (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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First edition of our e-newsletter (December 2004)
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Book - Living Death: The Trauma of Widowhood in India
Edited by Dr Mohini Giri. Extract and details
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Visit to Afghanistan
Monitoring visit to our partners AWEC in Afghanistan
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A visit to a partner organisation in Sri Lanka
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Images from India
Photos from Vrindivan, India
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Amnesty International
Women failed by progress in Afghanistan
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The New York Times Article
Africa’s Homeless Widows
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