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Chile - Need for Gender Perspective in Post-Earthquake Response & Reconstruction
"A gender perspective has been completely absent from both the emergency response policies as well as the inadequate measures taken for reconstruction. The needs of Chilean women were overlooked in the aftermath of the disaster as well as in organizing the reconstruction."
source: Women's UN Report Program & Network (WUNRN)
 
SELAVIP - CALL FOR 2012 PROJECTS
Invitation to present projects that could receive financial support during 2012
source: SELAVIP - http://www.selavip.org/
 
Chile, Post-earthquake reconstruction process: “An opportunity to show the importance of womens organisation for democratisation”
Seminar/Workshop „Mujeres, Resiliencia y Reconstrucción“, April 26th, Santiago de Chile
source: Kristin Schwierz
 
Women's Day 2011: Supporting the rights of women to remain in their places
In Baraka, Senegal, women have been the main protagonists building their habitat for 20 years and are now threatened with forced eviction.
source: HIC-GS
 
Women claim their city by night in New Dehli

source: Times of India
 
Women for the City Campaign
A campaign being carried out by the UNIFEM (part of UN Women) Regional Programme “Citis without violence against women, safe cities for all”, with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and implemented by the Red Mujer y Hábitat of Latin America.
source: Red Mujer y Hábitat
 
Land Forum II - Middle East/ North Africa
“HUMAN RIGHTS, PEOPLE AND THE LAND”
source: HIC-MENA / HIC-HLRN
 
HIC Member Better Life Association for Comprehensive Development (BLACD): winner of the World Habitat Awards 2009/2010

source: Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF)
 
Women and babies dragged by French police during a housing protest
A video has emerged showing French police forcibly removing migrant African women with infants during a protest over housing near Paris. At one point, a woman and her baby are dragged screaming along the ground
source: CNN International
 
Call for Co-presenters for a panel on governance and the provision of gender-sensitive essential services in low-income communities for the Third International Conference on Women’s Safety, November 22-24, 2010, New Delhi, India

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