News and Events: Announcements

• Routledge Publishes Membership Based Organizations of the Poor book
• Call for Papers: "Beyond the Tipping Point: Development in an Urban World," UNU-WIDER Project Workshop
  
• WIEGO Joins the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)
  
  
• Call for Papers for an International Conference Organized by Cornell University and the International Policy Center called "Labor Markets in Developing and Transition Economies: Emerging Policy and Analytical Issues"
  
  
• Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joins AFL-CIO President Sweeney, former President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Inez McCormack, and AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity in honoring the Self Employed Women's Association and Ela Bhatt with the George Meany - Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award
  
  
• WIEGO Social Protection Programme Director Francie Lund co-edits ELDIS Gender Issues Resource page highlighting Social Protection and Gender as a key issue in international development
  
  
• WIEGO authors contribute to special "Review of Labour" issue of Economic and Political Weekly
  
  
• Ela Bhatt named Graduation Speaker for the 2006 Commencement Exercises at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
  
  
  
• AFL-CIO awards the George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award to Ela Bhatt of SEWA
  
  
  
• StreetNet International Co-ordinator deported from Zimbabwe
  
  
  
• WIEGO writes UNIFEM's Progress of the World's Women 2005
  
• SEWA under Attack (español)