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Organisation profile: Central American Women's Network (CAWN)

by Katherine Ronderos and Liz Cooke

In this issue's organisation profile, we look at the Central American Women's Network. This UK-based organisation works in both Central America and in Europe to strengthen and promote the rights of Central American women, with partnership at the core of their strategy.

Tracking the impact of the global economic crisis – ten things women's groups can investigate

by Diane Elson

Diane Elson has been at the forefront of thinking on feminist economics for the past quarter of a century. In this piece for Gender & Development she turns her attention to the ongoing economic crisis. Highlighting the lack of information available on the human impact of the crisis, and its gendered effects, Diane provides a possible methodology for tracking the impact of the crisis on the ground.

International Women's Day

by Liz Cooke

This year, on 8 March, many of our readers will be taking part in activities to mark International Women's Day (IWD) 2010. Over the years, IWD has been observed in different ways in different countries – but how did the day itself come into being? Here, we provide a brief history of the origins of the day which celebrates the world's women.

Notes

1. The term is used by Central American women's organisations as a legal and political term to refer to the torture and murder of women because of their gender. Femicide is an extreme form of violence against women linked to discrimination, poverty and male backlash against women. For more information, please see Marina Prieto-Carrón, Marilyn Thomson and Mandy Macdonald's, ‘No more killings! Women respond to femicides in Central America’, in Gender & Development 15(1): 25–49 (March 2007).