First woman chief of court for Jordan
Jordan’s High Judiciary Board has appointed the first woman in the country’s history to the position of chief of court, local newspapers reported on Tuesday.
Spring Training for Peer Educators will begin. Rachel Turner, next year’s SSR coordinator, will be leading the discussions and educational process. Come by ready to learn and with an open mind!
To become a Peer Educator for SSR, you must attend the two training days this quarter: May 23 and May 30 at 5pm in the Women’s Center (located in the new Student Resource Building).
for Fall 2007 to Spring 2008
Join a student organization that is committed to ending sexual assault.
Students Stopping Rape is a co-ed student volunteer organization that presents educational programs to UCSB students and the surrounding communities on sexual violence.
The Women’s Center is located in the new Student Resource Building.
For more information, contact Kari Mansager at Kari.mansager@sa.ucsb.edu.
Start Time: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 10:00am
End Time: Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 3:00pm
Location: 434 Lawn (formerly the Women’s Center Lawn) across from Stork Tower
UCSB Sex and Relationship Peer Health Interns’s Sex Affair is back and better than ever this year in a two day event that will satisfy all your safer sex and relationship needs.
Regardless of your orientation, relationship status, values, or sexual activity - this event will have something for you!!
This year the interns will be handing out over 2,000 condoms (with all 7 steps to putting them on correctly), over 3,000 containers of lube, hundreds of dental dams, and thousands of sexual health flyers all for FREE!!
Our ever popular Penis and Vagina-costumed people will be dancing around and excited to take a picture with you!
In addition, our infamous Tunnel of Love will provide interactive birth control and sex toys tables as well as an opportunity for you to view all of our favorite passives and local artwork relating to the themes of Sex Affair.
Experts from student health will be joining the interns to help answer all your questions and direct you to relevant resources.
Tabling with us this year will be:
The Healthy Eating And Living interns (H.E.A.L.),
Students Teaching Alcohol and other drug Responsibility (S.T.A.R.),
SexInfo
Headspace
Voices for Planned Parenthood
The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
Men Against Rape
Rape Prevention Peers
Take back the night
Join us from 10-3 on Wednesday, May 23 and Thursday, May 24th on the 434 lawn directly across from Stork Tower for our biggest event of the year!!!
To learn more about the Peer Health Interns please visit our website at: http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/peerhealth/
also known as Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Student Stopping Rape will be tabling all day on Thursday during the Sex Affair in order to collect “photo signatures” to support AND urge our government to ratify the Treaty for the Rights of Women!
The US is currently the ONLY country in the Americas who has not ratified the Treaty!!
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.
The Convention defines discrimination against women as “…any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field.”
By accepting the Convention, States commit themselves to undertake a series of measures to end discrimination against women in all forms, including:
to incorporate the principle of equality of men and women in their legal system, abolish all discriminatory laws and adopt appropriate ones prohibiting discrimination against women;
to establish tribunals and other public institutions to ensure the effective protection of women against discrimination; and to ensure elimination of all acts of discrimination against women by persons, organizations or enterprises.
The Convention provides the basis for realizing equality between women and men through ensuring women’s equal access to, and equal opportunities in, political and public life — including the right to vote and to stand for election — as well as education, health and employment. States parties agree to take all appropriate measures, including legislation and temporary special measures, so that women can enjoy all their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
The Convention is the only human rights treaty which affirms the reproductive rights of women and targets culture and tradition as influential forces shaping gender roles and family relations. It affirms women’s rights to acquire, change or retain their nationality and the nationality of their children. States parties also agree to take appropriate measures against all forms of traffic in women and exploitation of women.
Countries that have ratified or acceded to the Convention are legally bound to put its provisions into practice. They are also committed to submit national reports, at least every four years, on measures they have taken to comply with their treaty obligations.
from: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/
Thursday, May 24 at 8PM
Isla Vista Theater 2
This movie tells the story of Shelby Knox, a student who fought her high school’s abstinence-only program in favor of a queer-positive, sex-positive, compreshensive sex education program.
The movie is FREE and there are FREE shirts as well. Stop by the VOX table at A Sex Affair on Wednesday, May 23 and Thursday, May 24 for more information, or check out our facebook event.
VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood and a coaltion of other groups including the Sex and Relationship interns, QSU, Campus Democrats, FUQIT, Lamda Theta Alpha, and Sex Info UCSB are proud to present a screening of The Education of Shelby Knox on Thursday, May 24 at 8PM in IV Theater 2.
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