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Gender Issues in ICT Policy in Developing Countries: An Overview
N. Hafkin / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2002
Without explicit attention to integrating a gender perspective into Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policies, the needs of women and girls risk being overlooked. Despite many government...
Men and care in the context of HIV and AIDS: structure, political will and greater male involvement
D. Peacock;M. Weston / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2008
What drives the enormous burden of AIDS-related care which falls on women and girls? What strategies are needed to reduce this burden? Rather than focusing only on ways to increase men's participation...
Addressing vulnerability and exploitation of child domestic workers: an open challenge to end a hidden shame
C. Flores-Oebanda / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2006
This paper argues that countries should either integrate domestic work under existing labour legislation or introduce specific laws for the protection of adult domestic workers and...
From the kitchen to the classroom: call for political commitment and empowerment to get girls out of child domestic labour and into school
B. Suriyasarn / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2006
Though domestic service work is the single largest employer of working girls worldwide, it is hidden from view and often overlooked in statistics on child labour. This paper presents an...
Online discussion on elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child
C. Schuepp / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2006
This report presents an overview of a four-week online discussion on the rights of the girl child, conducted in 2006, drawing heavily on direct quotes from participants’ contributions. The discussion ...
The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child: report of the Expert Group meeting
United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2006
This document reports on the 2006 meeting of an Expert Group which aimed to feed into to the deliberations of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on “The elimination of all forms of discrimina...
HIV/AIDS as a human security issue: a gender perspective
U. Kristoffersson / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2000
The HIV/AIDS epidemic today is not simply a health issue. Its spread and impact cuts across all levels of society causing important consequences for human security. The scale of this epidemic has rece...
Community-level interventions against HIV/AIDS from a gender perspective
N. Iwere / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2000
This paper deliberately avoids dwelling on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, its impact on women, families, communities and on development. The author chooses rather to focus on some salient issues pertai...
The gender aspects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
S. Matlin; N. Spence / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2000
Gender analysis is crucial to understanding HIV/AIDS transmission and initiating appropriate programmes of action. This report deals with HIV/AIDS in this vein.Conclusions and recommendations:
A rights-based approach to realizing gender equality
S. Goonesekere / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 1998
Surveys international human rights law and its gender-specific norms and standards. It considers critical issues relating to the scope and application of human rights law, including the identificatio...

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