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United Nations Gender Equality Architecture, member states and women

In this article by Gigi Francisco, reforming the UN in a way that gives greater equality to women within the UN and around the world is discussed.

http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/5439.html

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Urge African Governments to Ratify and Enforce Women's Rights Protocol

African women made history in 2005, as a protocol came into force that specifically protects women's human rights and breaks new ground in international law. You can help promote desperately needed women's rights in Africa by writing to the governments that raitified the protocol and calling on them to comply with the protocol by amending their domestic laws and practices. You can also write to African governments who have not yet ratified the protocol, urging them to make a committment to women's rights by doing so.

http://hrw.org/women/africaprotocol/

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What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations

Women are victims of both authoritarianism and conflict, and often play a crucial role in the aftermath of violence, searching for victims or their remains, trying to reconstitute families and communities, and carrying on the tasks of memory and the demand for justice. Despite this, reparation programs are rarely designed to address the needs of women who bear the impact of human rights violations. But what happens to the lives of women dealing with human rights violations? What happens to their voices once they have their day in court or in front of a truth commission? This book argues for the introduction of a gender dimension into reparations programs. The volume explores gender and reparations policies in Guatemala, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Timor-Leste. All chapters are available for download online. (Ruth Rubio-Marín, ICRC, SSRC, December 2006)

http://press.ssrc.org/RubioMarin/

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What Works in Girls' Education: Evidence and Policies from the Developing World (pdf)

By Barbara Herz and Gene B. Sperling, Council on Foreign on Foreign Relations, 2004. While we continue to struggle to understand many foreign policy and development challenges, the issue of girls' education is unique: a striking body of empirical evidence demonstrates its strong benefits across a broad range of areas, from children's health and educational attainment, to social stability and economic growth. Even in countries where the social and cultural obstacles to educating or empowering girls may seem overwhelming, a strategic mix of proven policies and programs can ensure girls are in school and make a critical difference to their longterm success. This report brings together the best scholarly analyses on this topic and organizes their findings into an easy-to-use guide for policymakers and their staffs.

http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=6947

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What's Good for Women is Good for the World

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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What's holding back Arab women?

This article looks at "Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World", the fourth and final installment of the Arab Human Development Report compiled under the auspices of the United Nations Development Fund by a panel of distinguished Arab thinkers. The report draws a devastating picture of the plight of Arab women - while thoughtfully examining the complex background to the issue, and offering some creative proposals for progress. (Scott McLeod, Time, 7 December 2006)

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1567155,00.html

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Where is the money for women's rights? Assessing the resources and the role of donors in the promotion of women's rights and the support of women's ri

To the Association for Women's Rights in Development, it seems that there are too few interested funders, with too little money, to support existing women's rights organizations and initiatives. Is it that women's rights groups are not bold enough in their fundraising strategies? Is it that donors simply don't understand the urgency and importance of this work? What has really been happening in terms of funding for women's rights organizations in the last ten years and what have been the driving forces behind those trends? This report is the result of an action research initiative launched by AWID to explore these questions and to give insights into possible strategies for changing the existing funding landscape so that more resources are made available to women's rights organizations. (AWID, October 2005)

http://www.awid.org/go.php?pg=where_is_money

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Where is the money for women's rights?: The second Fundher report

AWID's 2007 Second Fundher Report, Financial Sustainability for Women's Movement's Worldwide, is now available online for download. Building on the achievements/impact of their 1st Fundher Report, Where is the Money for Women's Rights? Assessing the resources and the role of donors in the promotion of women's rights and the support of women's rights organizations, this Report probes deeper into fundamental questions related to resource mobilization and movement-building. How are women's organizations and movements growing worldwide? Why do we need strong women's movements and organizations? Where is the money for women's rights? How should we mobilize new resources to build stronger feminist movements in order to advance women's rights worldwide? (Joanna Kerr, AWID, September 2007)

http://www.awid.org/go.php?pg=fundher_2

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Women & elections: guide to promoting the participation of women in elections (PDF)

Eldis. Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI), 2004. This paper is based on the premise that democratic elections are key to peace-building in post-conflict situations, and that women's participation is essential to ensuring sustainable democracy. Given the importance of democratic elections and the role of women in peace-building, enhancing women's participation in elections in post-conflict countries is vital to building peace and democracy and advancing the equality of women and men. Elections provide an opportunity to ensure women's voices are heard, their concerns are addressed, and their potential contributions to peace and democracy are maximised. This paper examines strategies for promoting women's participation in elections, citing various UN declarations and resolutions that highlight government's obligations to ensure this. The paper proposes some key governmental and societal factors that must be aligned to ensure women's ability to participate.

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/wps/publication/WomenAndElections.pdf

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Women Activists Who Pave The Way

So who says the participation of women in politics, governance and decision-making can only be marked by their representation in parliament? If the actions of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) are anything to go by, women are at the forefront of the activism in Zimbabwe.(The Namibian, August 25, 2005)

http://www.namibian.com.na/2005/August/columns/05D003C872.html

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Women and Development in Laos

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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Women Challenging Globalization

2002, WEDO/UNIFEM. A gender perspective on the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development, March 18-22, 2002, Monterrey, Mexico.

http://www.wedo.org/files/ffdreport_eng.pdf

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Women Living Under Muslim Laws

An interview with Casandra Balchin on the work of the WLUML network. (Yoginder Sikand, Just Change, July 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/jc6sikand.pdf

(Added: Mon Aug 07 2006   Hits: 54)

Women Political Participation and Good Governance: 21st Century Challenges

(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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Women's Economic Agenda in the 21st Century

(2001) This paper explores why the women's movement is shifting from advocacy that is solely targeting the UN towards an increased focus on international institutions such as the WB, the IMF and the WTO.

http://www.coc.org/pdfs/coc/WomensAgenda.pdf

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Women's Empowerment & Literacy

Riet Turksma, Senior Gender Expert, UNESCO, New Delhi. The title of the paper has two debatable definitions. What is empowerment and what is literacy? In an excellent report 'Women's Empowerment in South Asia" (March 1994) Srilatha Batliwala needed 118 pages to deal with the concepts and practices of empowerment. A glossary for literacy terms, a base document of UNESCO called "A literate world" lists 19 items. If so much can be written about a definition or a meaning surely further clarification in the context of South Asia's diversity is needed.

http://www.literacyonline.org/products/ili/webdocs/riet.html

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Women's Empowerment, Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

Women's Environment & Development Organization, 2004. Describes the Millennium Development Goals, their connection to women's equality and strategies to insure they include a gender perspective.

http://www.wedo.org/library.aspx?ResourceID=5

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Women's human rights net

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)

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.

http://www.wilpf.org/

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Women, Law & Development International

WLDI is a women's human rights organization. First established in 1979 as a program of OEF International; WLDI became an independent organization in 1993. WLDI is a non-profit, non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Prior to and since its independence, WLDI has worked on several fronts, making important contributions to the global movement for women's rights. Among its many accomplishments, WLDI has: * organized a number of agenda-setting global and regional forums that engaged key women leaders from around the world to articulate strategies for promoting and defending women's rights; * launched independent regional women's rights organizations in Asia, Africa and Latin America that today are recognized as leaders in advocating for women's rights locally and globally; * initiated and carried out ground-breaking participatory research projects on women's human rights issues including violence against women, legal literacy, and economic rights, among other themes, providing a basis for deeper understanding and broader recognition of women's human rights globally; and * created and disseminated innovative and practical strategy frameworks, "how-to" guides, case studies, fact sheets and other tools for advocacy, including A Women's Rights Agenda for the 90's and Beyond, Women's Human Rights Step by Step and others.

http://www.wld.org/

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Women, Men and Development

This document profiles USAID efforts to address barriers to full access to opportunity for women and men throughout the developing world (USAID March 2006).

http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/pubs/Women_Men_in_Development_march2006.pdf

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Women, violence and empowerment: the world we live in

The systemic, worldwide degradation of girl children makes the Commission on the Status of Women meeting at the United Nations a vital event, says Patricia Daniel. (Open Democracy, 23 February 2007)

http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-africa_democracy/women_violence_4379.jsp

(Added: Mon Feb 26 2007   Hits: 63)

Working towards a better humanity

She has a hefty task of monitoring countries on the implementation of the Beijing Platform of Action. Ms Marren Akatsa-Bukachi, the executive director of The Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Adjustment of Women (Eassi), also burns the midnight oil wondering how countries in the region can overcome their numerous problems. (Jane Godia, The Standard, 29 August 2007).

http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143972043

(Added: Fri Aug 03 2007   Hits: 44)

Young Women and Leadership Email List

The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) Young Women and Leadership (YWL) programme offers an on-line forum to: - share ideas and important information - initiate debates around issues that affect young women in their different contexts - provide a space for young women to network across various contexts - allow young women to articulate their visions, perspectives for the advancement of the women's rights and social justice agenda internationally; - share updates on the YWL programme.

http://www.awid.org/ywl/

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