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    Political Reform to Increase Quotas for Women in Parliament: The Use of Electoral Gender Quotas in Rwanda

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2007
    Electoral gender quotas accelerated greater representation of women in the Rwandan Parliament, with 48.8 per cent of parliamentary seats, the highest in the world after the first ever multiparty elections. While the use of electoral gender quotas is a useful and important mechanism, multiple factors produced the Rwandan success.
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    Changing their World: Concepts and Practices of Women's Movements

    2008
    At some levels, feminist movements have lost much of the momentum, coherence and impact they seemed to have had even a decade ago, while at others, women are building their collective power in vibrant ways.
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    Gender Accountability: Services Fail Poor Women

    Gender Diversiteit Annette Evertzen, 2008
    What role can donors play in ensuring that women and girls are able to claim their right to equal access to basic services? How can donors help ensure these services are gender-sensitive? This paper considers what is needed in order to make public services - mainly health and education - work for poor women. It argues that services often fail poor women and girls in three key respects:
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    Review of experience in engaging with non-state justice systems in East Africa

    Department for International Development, UK, 2003
    This report seeks to help DfID understand the range of non-formal justice systems in the East Africa region, and to develop guidelines on how to work with such systems to make justice more accessible to poor people. The report is based on a review of relevant experience in three East African countries: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
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    Women's Situation in New Zealand

    Online Women in Politics, 2000
    This brief outlines the status of women in New Zealand in relation to politics and decision-making, and violence against women, trafficking of women and women's rights violations. Women remain underrepresented in government in New Zealand - for example of the 25 members of the Cook Islands Parliament only two are women.
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    National Strategy for Equality and Gender Equality

    2005
    The Senegalese government realises that sustainable development is not possible without the elimination of inequalities between men and women. It has therefore decided to adopt a clear plan of action to address these inequalities and to fully integrate the issue of gender into the development priorities of the country.
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    Whose Sexualities Count: Poverty, Participation and Sexual Rights

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    This paper asks: what do sexuality, sexual rights and sexual pleasure have to do with citizenship, participation and rights?
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    Stronger Women Stronger Nations - 2007 Kosovo Report: Amplifying the Voices of Women in Kosovo

    Women for Women International, 2007
    Women for Women International conducted this survey of over 1,600 participants in conjunction with the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), and American University to raise awareness about the critical link between women's economic, social and political participation and long-term peace and stability in Kosovo.
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    Gender Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa

    2007
    This paper presents an overview of key issues in the literature on gender justice in the sub-Saharan Africa region. Issues discussed include the exclusion of women from full citizenship status; gender inequalities in property relations, family relations and access to justice; and disregard for women's and men's sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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    Sexual and reproductive health services and HIV testing: perspectives and experiences of women and men living with HIV and AIDS

    2007
    All over the world HIV has been stigmatised, making it difficult for people living with HIV to access testing, treatment, care and counseling or even to act on a diagnosis or get advice and treatment, for fear of being judged. Prejudice in society has also often been reflected and reproduced by health care providers.

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