Thomson Reuters Foundation launches global hub for women's rights
LONDON (Trust.org) - Thomson Reuters Foundation has launched a global hub of news, information, resources and discussion on women's legal rights - the latest addition to the Foundation’s TrustLaw family.
TrustLaw Women is a one-stop shop pulling together and making sense of an ever-expanding bazaar of information about women’s legal rights. It features original multimedia reporting by Foundation and Reuters journalists, along with provocative postings by prominent bloggers and a flow of content from a growing list of content partners.
It offers a constantly updated array of resources, including links to women’s rights groups, collections of international laws and conventions, case studies, law review articles, reports and guides.
“The reason we chose women's rights is because in the developing world when a woman works children are better fed and better educated, so you tackle the very roots of poverty,” Thomson Reuters Foundation CEO Monique Villa said.
“We want to facilitate that as best we can by helping women know their rights, as well as providing the associations that represent men and women a lawyer for free when they need it most.”
Among TrustLaw Women’s unique offerings is a partnership with IMPOWR (International Models Project on Women’s Rights), an ambitious American Bar Association initiative to create a global database of women’s rights legislation by country, including analysis and other legal resources on gender equality around the world.
The IMPOWR database, due to launch in the spring of 2011, soon will be available for use on TrustLaw Women.
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