Social movements
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- Review of research on collective action and engaging men to tackle gender based violence
- BRIDGE, 2012
- The aim of this review is to pull together examples of research that: • Shows how collective forms of agency (whether in the form of social movements, coalitions or groups) have made a difference in eliciting positive...
- Feminisms and the World Social Forum: space for dialogue and confrontation
- V Vargas / Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
- This article, written by Virginia Vargas, presents a feminist perspective of the World Social Forum (WSF), analysing how changes in feminist strategies are expressed in the organisation's space and processes. The author explains how, ...
- Sexism in the World Social Forum: is another world possible?
- Obando A / Women's Human Rights Net, 2005
- This article, written by Ana Elena Obando following the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegro, Brazil, analyses perceived sexist contradictions at the WSF and challenges resistance movements to self-reflect and become more inclusiv...
- No revolutions without equality and justice: the struggle for women’s rights in rethinking development in the Arab region
- K Mohamadieh / The World We Want, 2012
- This article considers policy practice in the Arab region, highlighting some key areas for consideration in future policy making in the region. The peoples’ revolutions and uprisings in countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Libya...
- The UN post-2015 development agenda – a critical analysis. AWID Friday File
- N Raaber / Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2012
- This brief article contains a critical analysis of the post-2015 process so far at the time it was published and discusses the ways that women’s rights advocates are organising to influencing the process. It argues that despite ...
- Communique - Women's Consultation on the Africa We Want Post 2015
- African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2012
- This communique from the African Women's Regional Civil Society Consultation on the Post 2015 Development Framework conveys a collective desire for a re-orientation toward issues perceived to have been neglected by the Millennium Deve...
- Mobilising men in practice: challenging sexual and gender based violence in institutional settings
- A Greig; J Edstrom / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2012
- This document brings together stories, tools and lessons from the work of the Mobilising Men programme, a partnership looking at ways of engaging men as gender activists. Set up in 2009, the programme involves country partners in Keny...
- What makes domestic violence legislation more effective?
- C Sardenberg / Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2011
- This policy paper, developed as part of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment programme, considers four key questions: • What is domestic violence and how is it manifested • What role has women’s ...
- A guide to using the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa for legal action
- Equality Now, 2011
- Equality Now, on behalf of Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR), has published this guide to using the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa for legal action. The protocol is a supplementary protocol to th...
- Forgotten peace builders
- S. Ortoleva 2010
- Women worldwide are working to end political exclusion. More must be done to ensure that ALL women participate in building the rule of law, strengthening democracy and have a voice in decision making processes. Sustainable peace requi...
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