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    BRIDGE Occasional paper: UNDP/BRIDGE panel discussion on gender sensitive indicators and measurements of change, 51st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

    BRIDGE, 2007
    The Gender Team at the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and BRIDGE at the Institute of Development Studies, (IDS), UK, undertook an Expert Panel Discussion on Gender Sensitive Indicators and Measurements of Change at the 51st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in March 2007.
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    Sexuality, development and human rights

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006
    Historically development work has dealt with sexuality in limited ways, the best illustration being the subsuming of sexuality under family-planning that prevailed from the 1960s on.
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    Reproductive Rights and Women with Disabilities: A Human Rights Framework

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2002
    Women with disabilities comprise ten percent of women world-wide but yet their reproductive health and rights are often neglected. This paper suggests that international human rights laws and agreements be used to protect the rights of women with disabilities.
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    Women with Disabilities: Lessons of Reinforcing the Gender Perspective in International Norms and Standards

    United Nations, 2003
    Getting 'Women with Disabilities' onto the United Nations' (UN) development agenda has been a long process. This paper charts the detailed history of including women with disabilities in international agreements. Originally the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) made no mention of women with disabilities.
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    Gender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member Agencies

    Mobility International USA, 2002
    Do women and girls with disabilities participate in international development processes? What data is collected on their involvement? This survey of 165 United States-based international development organisations shows that 93 percent of respondent organisations do not know the extent of participation of women and girls with disabilities in their programmes due to insufficient data.
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    Development and Self-Help Movement of Women with Disabilities

    Independent Living Institute, 2002
    In Japan, women continue to have inferior status to men and this is compounded when women and girls have disabilities. Few economic opportunities means a higher propensity to poverty and this drastically reduces disabled women's and girls' health and well-being.
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    Confronting the Sexual Abuse of Women with Disabilities

    National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women, 2005
    The false assumption that women with disabilities are not sexual beings has not freed them from sexual abuse. Yet the important research on the sexual abuse of women often ignores disability while disability research rarely considers the sexual abuse of women with disabilities. This paper examines the shortcomings of research methods in the United States.
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    A Voice of Our Own: Advocacy by Women with Disability in Australia and the Pacific

    Routledge, 2005
    Women with disabilities are largely invisible within women's rights and disability rights agendas. They do not generally benefit from international human rights laws and agreements, or from development processes. This is particularly evident for women in the Pacific region and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
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    Strengthening Women's Rights Organisations through Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Gender, Disability and Development Institute

    2006
    How can women's organisations include women with disabilities in all areas of their work? According to this article, inclusion is easy. Based on information gathered at Mobility International (MI) USA's Gender, Disability and Development Institute (GDDI), this paper recommends that organisations start with MIUSA's 'Checklist for Inclusion' which provides a simple self-assessment guide.
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    Looking through Gender Lenses: Position Paper on Gender Equality

    2006
    Women are discriminated against in all aspects of Burmese society - particularly in the public sphere. The military regime has deepened this inequality, as women are excluded from entering the military and from holding many government positions.

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