News and Views: November 2007
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- World Must Fix Climate In Less Than 10 Years: UN (Raymond Colitt, Reuters)
- UN-backed drive against gender-based violence spotlights 5 'underreported' stories (UN News)
- PBS Premiere of Documentary "Sisters in Law" - November 27
- Middle East Talks in Annapolis: Photo-Op or Talk-Fest (Phyllis Bennis, ZNet)
- Jordan: Mere suspicion of an illicit affair often leads to "honour killings" - study (IRIN News)
- Ban Ki-moon pledges system-wide UN campaign to fight violence against women (UN News)
- WILPF Statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence (WILPF)
- Guatemala: Impunity Fuels Violence Against Women (Inés Benítez, IPS News)
- Q&A: Bali Conference "Very Much a Make or a Break" - Interview with Yvo de Boer, of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (IPS News)
- Pakistan top judge still detained (BBC News)
- World Bank, IMF Charged With Short-Changing Women (Allison Stevens, Women's eNews)
- Iraqis arrest 43 after convoy guards shoot woman (Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times)
- Saudi Arabia defends verdict sentencing rape victim to jail, lashes (The Associated Press)
- Climate change affects women more: Report (Indo-Asian News Service)
- Basra militants targeting women (Mona Mahmoud and Mike Lanchin, BBC News)
- Sudan: Civilians Driven Into Camps, Then the Bush (Abra Pollock, IPS News)
- Greater efforts needed to achieve gender balance within UN system - Migiro (UN News)
- Climate Change: Global Consensus, Lingering Discrepancies (Tito Drago, IPS News)
- NAFTA is Killing Tradition of Corn in Mexico (Nikhil Aziz, Grassroots International)
- World's Poorest 'Being Left Behind' (International Food Policy Research Institute)
- Thousands of Chileans to March Against Femicide (Matt Malinowski, Women's eNews)
- Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite (John Vidal, The Guardian)
- A Bank of Their Own: Latin America Casting Off Washington's Shackles (Mark Weisbrot, NACLAnews)
- Climate Change: The Unseen Force Behind Rising Food Prices? (Jessica Hanson, Worldwatch Institute)
- On planned Brazil trip, Ban Ki-moon to observe efforts to combat climate change (UN News)
- Australia: Government Consistent in Opposing Indigenous Rights (Stephen de Tarczynski, IPS News)
- Yifat Susskind, MADRE Communications Director, to Speak at National Lawyers Guild Convention in Washington, DC on Nov. 2
- Haiti: Treatment centre reports rising sexual violence and HIV (IRIN PlusNews)
- Iraqi Reporters Run Risks to Cover Women's Angle (Dominique Soguel, Women's eNews)
