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AWID PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN 2011

AWID PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN 2011. COMPILED BY: Gabriela de Cicco, Kathambi Kinoti, Massan D ’ Almeida and Susan Tolmay. MUSIC CREDIT: " Zelie " by Angelique Kidjo. JANUARY. The "Arab Spring" uprisings start in the Middle East and North Africa.

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AWID PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN 2011

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  1. AWID PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN 2011 COMPILED BY: Gabriela de Cicco, Kathambi Kinoti, Massan D’Almeida and Susan Tolmay MUSIC CREDIT: "Zelie" by Angelique Kidjo

  2. JANUARY The "Arab Spring" uprisings start in the Middle East and North Africa. Photo credit: http://sigi.org

  3. FEBRUARY Egyptian uprising topples Hosni Mubarak's 29 year presidency. Photo credit: Al Jazeera

  4. February: Popular demonstrations in Libya calling for political change are met with violence. Photo credit: Wikimedia

  5. February: Women march at the World Social Forum in Senegal, Dakar. Photo credit: AWID

  6. MARCH Cote d'Ivoire: Post election crisis leads to economic crisis and aggravates violence against women. Photo credit: FRHDP_solidaires

  7. March: Côte d'Ivoire- Hundreds of women march on International Women’s Day in Abidjan to protest against the killing of 7 women by security forces during the post election crisis. Photo credit: Associated Press

  8. March: Earthquake and tsunami devastate parts of Japan, causing tens of thousands of deaths, injuries and displacements. Photo credits: Al Jazeera,Wikimedia

  9. APRIL Kosovo gets first woman President, Atifete Jahjaga Photo credit: Captain Tulu

  10. April: Liberia- Oxfam calls on the international community to pay greater attention to the worsening refugee crisis in Ivory Coast and the region. Photo credit: Caroline Gluck/Oxfam

  11. April: New electoral law in Tunisia prescribes gender parity in Constituent Assembly elections. Photo credit: Wassim Ben Rhouma

  12. MAY Camila Vallejo, leads the students protest in Chile. Photo credit: Agencia Brasil

  13. May: The Supremo Tribunal Federal of Brazil rules  that civil unions are legal. Photo credit: Asociación Vox

  14. JUNE June: ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers is passed. Photo credits: Independent Media Center and Wikimedia

  15. Women2Drive campaign starts in Saudi Arabia. Activist Manal al-Sharif is detained for driving and later convicted and sentenced. Photo credit: saudiwave and Wikipedia

  16. June: UN passes resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity.  Photo credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

  17. UN takes measures to define relationship between internet rights and human rights. Photo credit: UN News Centre

  18. June: First International Widows Day celebrated on June 23. Photo credit: UN

  19. JULY Thailand elects first woman Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra. Photo credit: PTP

  20. July: The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) granted consultative status to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA). Photo credit: ILGA

  21. July: New penal code in Mexico includes femicide as a crime for the first time. Photo credit: NHRC.org

  22. July: South Sudan becomes 54th African State. Photo credits: Unmultimedia.org and Sudanwildlife.com

  23. July: UN Human Rights Council elects Laura Dupuy Lasserre, from Uruguay, as its first female President. Photo credit: UNHRC

  24. July: Singer Susana Baca becomes first Afro-Peruvian woman appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Culture. Photo credit: Monocityjim

  25. AUGUST Drought and famine in Somalia leave thousands displaced, mostly women and children. Photo credit: wikipedia and Oxfam

  26. August: Mexican journalists Ana María Marcela Yarce Viveros y Rocío González Trápaga are murdered. Photo credit: Notimex

  27. August: A new law is passed in Algeria to increase female candidates on electoral lists. Photo credit: World News

  28. SEPTEMBER Occupy Wall Street protests begin. Photo credit: Wikimedia

  29. September: Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and first African woman to win Nobel Prize passes away. Photo credit: efeverde

  30. September: Saudi women granted the right to vote and contest in municipal elections in 2015. Photo credit: http://amnestyusa.org

  31. OCTOBER Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Yemeni opposition leader Tawakkul Karman and Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee share the Nobel Peace Prize. Photo credit: ltenetwork.blogspot.com

  32. October: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi killed. Concerns raised about introduction of sharia laws by new regime. Photo credit : Evan Hill/Al Jazeera

  33. October: Four inspiring women journalists from around the world are honoured by the International Women's Media Foundation - 2011's Courage in Journalism Award - Adela Navarro Bello, Parisa Hafezi, Chiranuch Premchaiporn and Lifetime achievement award - Kate Adie. Photo credit: Vince Bucci/PictureGroup

  34. October: Filipino baby girl is marked world’s 7 billionth person. Photo credit: All voices

  35. October: Palestine gains UNESCO membership. Photo credit: Blog Gamacero

  36. October:Buthaina Kamel becomes first woman in Egypt to campaign for the highest political office. Photo credit: IPS

  37. NOVEMBER Pakistan passes new bill to protect women’s rights. Photo credit: EPA/http://rferl.org

  38. November: 12th Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Gathering (EFLAC) takes place in Bogota, Colombia. Photo credit: Gabriela De Cicco

  39. November: All political and civil society actors in Democratic Republic of Congo, including the 11 presidential candidates sign a declaration for the elimination of sexual violence in DRC. Photo credit: Le Congo

  40. DECEMBER Gambian Lawyer Fatou Bensouda is appointed as first woman and first African Chief Prosecutor of the ICC. Photo credit: unmultimedia.org

  41. December: 1st Asia Pacific Feminist Forum takes place in Chang Mai Thailand. Photo credit: APWLD

  42. December: Norma Andrade, WHRD, is attacked and shot in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Photo credit: Amnesty International

  43. December: Dominican human rights activist, Sonia Pierre, passes away. She worked for the rights of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic and their children. Photo credit: http://espacinsular.org.

  44. December: Portia Simpson-Miller elected Prime Minister of Jamaica. Photo credit: Office of the Prime Minister of Jamaica

  45. AWID WISHES ALL THE BEST FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN 2012

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