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Discrimination Against The Girl Child, Female infanticide, female genital cutting and honor killing. "This publication focuses on the visible manifestations of violence against women and girls. It makes a useful contribution in offering the latest information on the extent of the practices and present the community-based solutions that have been successful in bringing about the changes needed to advance the equal rights of women and girls". Available from Sree Gururaja, Senior Advisor, Gender & Development Division, UNICEF Price: $6.00, no shipping or handling charge in US. Make checks payable to Youth Advocate Program International, 4545 42nd St., NW, Suite 209, Washington, DC 20016. Tel: 202/244-1986 · yapi@igc.org Love—All That and More. A video for youth about healthy relationships. For use in classrooms, community groups and religious education settings. The 60-minute video is designed to inform youth about the elements that make up healthy relationships, increase awareness and understanding about abuse, and motivate viewers to seek relationships based on equality and mutual respect. It comes with a comprehensive facilitators guide, discussion questions, and suggested follow up activities. Contact: The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence. (206) 634-1903, www.cpsdv.org New Men—Deeper Hungers by Rev. Tom Owen-Towle, Co-Minister, First Unitarian Universalist Church, San Diego, CA. For men, this book shows the way toward fresh masculinity marked by flexibility, pain, firmness, and depth. For women, it contains revealing, hopeful portraits of the very men with whom they work, play and live. A book especially for fathers, sons, brothers, partners, associates and friends!Price: $15 per book plus $2 shipping and handling charge. UUMeN member discount, if dues are paid: $5.00. Unitarian Universalist Men's Network, 4190 Front Street, San Diego, CA 92103 Playing Fair. National Film Board of Canada. $120. Website: www.nfb.ca This series of four, fifteen-minute videos for children ages 7-12 was recommended by Rev. Elizabeth Benjamin (Ottawa First) via CANUUE-L. "These spark discussion about racism, respect, and equality". These videos are available in your local library. Teaching//Nurturing Young Children, a resource book for caregivers by Alma Wallace, Bolton Publishing, Denver, CO, 1999. $16.95. This book is a work of love and caring. Alice Wallace has compiled information from her lifetime of devotion to children from birth to eight years of age. Fingerplays, music, poetry, stories, paper activities, and a vocabulary game offer resources to teacher, daycare provider, and hospital patients providing home schooling. While the material is directed to childcare providers, it is a boon to any of us blessed with the task of caring for young children. Reviewed by Rev. Cynthia Breen. Traditions With a Wink by Kate Tweedie Erslev. A UU Identity curriculum for middle schoolers. Available form Kate Tweedie Erslev, 705 Birky Place, Fort Collins, CO 80526, http://UUCurricula.homestead.com/UUCurricula.html. $120.00. Additional copies are $50.00 each. U.N. Me. Produced by Kelley Kreitz for the UU-UNO Office. This four-unit curriculum for 4th to 6th graders will give students a clear introduction to what the United Nations is all about. Did you know that U.N. Day, October 24th, as founded by Frank Frederick, A Unitarian? His story is included. |
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