Knowledge Centre : Gender : Women and Development : Page 2
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- Women and Development in Laos
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by Sheila Thomson and Sally Baden, Feb 1993. Report prepared for Women, Health and Population Division, Australian InternationalDevelopment Assistance Bureau.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/Reports/re9c.pdf
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- Sociolegal Status of Women in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand
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Are laws the answer to achieving gender equality? What are the complex interactions of civil, religious and customary laws that shape women?s status? This publication provides a discussion of these complex issues and offers some answers to these questions. It is based on an ADB regional technical assistance (RETA) that consolidates findings and recommendations of four country studies together with an overview study. The four country studies of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines revealed that existing laws in many DMCs continue to discriminate against women. These laws can constrain women from achieving their full potential to participate equally in all spheres of economic, political and social life. Following the country assessments, the publication suggests relevant steps that governments and civil society groups need to take to amend discriminatory laws. Recommendations for further actions by governments, civil society groups, and ADB include the need for training judges, lawyers and law enforcement personnel in gender-sensitisation and support for the improved collection of data on women's sociological status.
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Studies/Sociolegal_Status_Women/default.asp
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- EQUALITY NOW
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EQUALITY NOW is an international human rights organization dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women. Taking advantage of both traditional and "high-tech" action techniques such as letter-writing and fax campaigns, video witnessing, media events and public information activities, EQUALITY NOW mobilizes action on behalf of individual women whose rights are being violated and promotes women's rights at local, national and international levels.
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- What's Good for Women is Good for the World
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Throughout the 1990s, several major United Nations conferences stressed the importance of including women in sustainable development. But despite these commitments on paper, there has been far too little action. True and meaningful equity between women and men will take much more than inserting a paragraph here and there in the documents issued at a United Nations convention or in national laws. Supplied by Worldwatch, a non profit public policy research organization
http://www.awakenedwoman.com/May/worldwatch4.htm
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- Narcisa Nuis Mashienta Jimbiti Helps Plan the Future in Ecuador
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A young Ecuadoran leader promotes the role of women in envisioning the future of their rainforest communities. By Thea Gelbspan, South America regional office.
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/global/art3649.html
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- Progress of the World's Women 2005
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New economic report which investigates women's status in the context of globalization from the mid 1980s through the late 1990s. The report shows that only eight nations have successfully met global agreements to achieve both gender equality in secondary education enrollment and at least a 30 per cent share of women's seats in parliament.
http://www.un-ngls.org/women-2005.pdf
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- About-face
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About-Face promotes positive self-esteem in girls and women of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds through a spirited approach to media education, outreach and activism.
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- e.quality@work Information Base on Equal Employment Opportunites for Women and Men
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The database includes, initiatives, strategies, projects and programmes on equal employment opportunities for women and men and includes ILO and UN Instruments, International Guidelines, European Union (EU) Instruments, National Legal Frameworks for 39 countries, National Guidelines, Government Programmes, Company Policies and Trade Union Policies. e.quality@work is used as a practical tool for Reviewing or reforming legislation; Institutional capacity building;Advocacy, awareness raising and training activities;Technical assistance work and project planning;Preparation of research papers.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/eeo/index.htm
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- Country WID Profile: Indonesia
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This report looks at the socio-economic, health, and education profile of women in Indonesia, government policy on WID/Gender, the current stuation of women by sector and WID/Gender projects by other donors. (December 1999, Japan International Cooperation Agency Planning Department)
http://www.jica.go.jp/english/global/gend/back/pdf/e99ind.pdf
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- "Toward a Compassionate Society" - Web Anthology from Women's Learning Partnership (WLP)
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Edited with an introduction by Mahnaz Afkhami, President of WLP. WLP announces the web anthology Toward a Compassionate Society, which addresses the importance of cultural pluralism and women's role in promoting peace in a rapidly globalising world. The issues are examined from a variety of gender-focused cultural and inter-disciplinary perspectives including sociology, anthropology, human rights, philosophy, and religion. Full PDF file available online.
http://www.learningpartnership.org/docs/copanthology.pdf
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- Gender & Development Training Centre (G&DTC)
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Gender and Development Training Centre G&DTC aims to challenge existing gender inequality and to reinforce women's autonomy within the context of development co-operation, both at programme and at organisational level. To this end, individual briefings are facilitated, international training courses are organised and advisory services are offered. (UNESCO)
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14428&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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- Women's human rights net
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whrNET is a collaborative Information & Communication Technology (ICT) project developed by an international coalition of women's organizations. whrNET aims to strengthen advocacy for women's human rights through the effective utilization of information and communication technologies. The sponsoring organizations are part of a global movement for women's human rights that has grown steadily since the World Conference of Human Rights (Vienna, 1993) and the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995). whrNET is jointly sponsored and supported by its partner organizations and is governed by an elected International Executive Committee.
http://www.whrnet.org/news.html
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- Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF)
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Founded in 1915, the WILPF empowers women to work effectively for peace and justice in 45 countries around the world. WILPF women stand for: political solutions to international conflicts; disarmament; the promotion of women to full and equal participation in all; society's activities; the respect of fundamental human rights and the right to development in a sustainable environment; economic justice within and among states; elimination of racism and all forms of discrimination.
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- International Womens Development Agency
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International Women's Development Agency is an Australian based non-government organisation which undertakes projects in partnership with women from around the world, giving priority to working with women who suffer poverty and oppression. The development which IWDA promotes is the equitable growth of people and communities, and the just distribution of basic resources and respect for human rights. Projects supported by IWDA are devised and managed by the women who live and work in their communities which helps to ensure relevance and effectiveness to those women and their communities. IWDA projects will achieve at least one of three things: bring tangible socio-economic benefits to poor people provide women with definable and needed skills oppose injustice or exploitation of women.
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- Gender and Development
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Gender and Development is the only journal to focus specifically on gender and development issues internationally, and to explore the connections between gender and development initiatives and feminist perspectives. Launched in 1993, the journal has become essential reading for development practitioners, policy makers, and academics. Grounded in experience of gender-sensitive development, Gender and Development offers a forum for debate, bringing together theory, practice, and insights for the future.
http://www.informaworld.com/gad
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- INSTRAW
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Based in the Dominican Republic, the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women Women. The website has been restructured to become the only dedicated UN institution to deliver its mandate through new information and communication technologies (ICT)
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- Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP)
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TGNP is committed to facilitating social transformation leading to the creation of a vibrant Tanzanian society. It seeks to promote gender equality and social equity through the empowerment of women and other marginalised sections of the community. The organisation strives to enhance the mainstreaming of gender at all levels of society from grassroots communities to the highest levels of national policy making and legislation.
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- I to Eye: Portraits of Female Empowerment in Bangladesh
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Portraits by Fariba Alam. This exhibit features portraits and interviews of ten Bangladeshi women. The front page of I to Eye explains, "Mainstream media images of women in Bangladesh generally fall into two categories: the oppressed and the starving. The photographs in this online exhibition challenge these stereotypes by documenting the lives of active, independent, economically self-sufficient Bangladeshi women."
http://www.asiasource.org/arts/alam/intro.html
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- Women Political Participation and Good Governance: 21st Century Challenges
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(This document in pdf format)UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown observes that in spite of progress for women, one central theme from the 1990s remains the continued absence of women's voices in governance, due largely to their inequitable representation and participation in governments, political parties, non governmental organizations and the private sector. "Women want and need to be able to participate in the decisions that affect them, their families, communities and countries," he says.
http://www.undp.org/governance/docs/Gender-Pub-21stcentury.pdf
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- Bringing Equality Home
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Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women CEDAW
http://www.unifem.undp.org/CEDAW/
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