Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
Tue, 28 May 1996 11:38:45 -0700 (PDT)
New On-line Legal Resource Service Focuses
on Women's Rights
The Network for East-West Women has recently announced the establishment
of an on-line legal resource service that will focus on women's rights.
The on-line service, which will be in the form of an electronic mailing
list, will focus on identifying law school curriculum, public education
materials, international human rights documents, U.S. law case studies and
legal success stories, Internet resources, and announcements of
conferences and training programs.
The research and compilation of materials will be coordinated by a team of
law professors, law students, translators, and NEWW staff headed by Dr.
Isabel Marcus of SUNY-Buffalo. While most of the experts are U.S.-based,
the team does include Urszula Nowakowska of the Women's Rights Center in
Warsaw, Lena Kochkina of the Moscow Center for Gender Studies, and Olga
Lipovskaya, director of the Petersburg Center for Gender Issues.
Initially NEWW intends to focus on one topic per month. The first month
will focus on domestic violence and will include materials on self-help,
recovery, working with battered women, legal education and lawyers as
service providers, impact on children and related issues, shelters and
other programs for women, teenage dating violence, women who kill their
batterers, and international perspectives and human rights.
Later months will focus on:
* labor
* violence against women
* family issues such as divorce and maternity leave
* health
* feminist legal theory
* media' social insurance
* the criminal justice system
The On-Line Legal Resource Service Project which is sponsored by the
Eurasia Foundation will also compile a list of NIS organizations, legal
advocates women's information centers, and public interest law centers
which focus on women's issues. Hopefully most of the information NEWW
compiles will be made available at it's World Wide Web site at:
http://www.igc.apc.org/neww/
There will be both an English and Russian-language electronic distribution
list. To subscribe to the English-language list send a message with the
words:
subscribe neww-rights
For information about the Russian-language list contact Galina Venediktova
or Irina Doskich of NEWW's Moscow office at: or Irina Doskich of NEWW's Moscow office at: [email protected].
For more information about the project contact Victoria Vrana at:
[email protected]
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