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  From Rhetoric to Reality: Afghan Women on the Agenda for Peace

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2005

  To what extent have Afghan women made significant gains between 2001 and 2005? This report provides an overview of mechanisms introduced by the international community to promote women's participation, including the new Ministry for Women's Affairs, political quotas, and donor aid and assistance programmes, and also examines the contributions of Afghan women themselves.
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  UNIFEM Afganistan Fact Sheet 2007

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007

  What is women's situation in Afghanistan in 2007? This factsheet presents key statistics in a number of key areas, including political participation, labour force participation, health, education, marriage and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world, and a low female life expectancy of just 44 years.
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  Iraq: The Status of Women in Iraq: An Assessment of Iraq's De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International Legal Standards

  Iraq Legal Development Project, 2005

  Although women in Iraq have a 25 percent quota in political representation, they still face considerable obstacles in their quest to secure their human rights. This paper assesses the degree to which Iraqi women in law (de jure) and in practice (de facto) enjoy the protection of their rights as guaranteed under international agreements.
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  Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading

  University Press of Florida, 2004

  An original and uncompromising study of the Qur'anic foundations of women's identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an, Islam's most authoritative source, and to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality.The book documents the historical development of Islamic thought and describes how Muslim males hav
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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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  A Gap Analysis Report on the Status of The Palestinian Women In the Context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

  Mediterranean Women, 2001

  Initiated by the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), this gap analysis report was the result of over two years of concerted efforts of a number of Palestinian non-governmental organisations and government institutions.
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  Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: A Critical Analysis of the Third Millennium Development Goal

  Oxfam, 2005

  While each of the three indicators used to measure progress towards the Third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) has the potential to bring about positive changes in women's lives, they also have limits as pathways to women's empowerment.
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  Women's Empowerment as a Variable in International Development

  2002

  Measuring 'empowerment' depends on the establishment of universal standards (such as human rights), but at the same time it must allow for indicators which are sensitive to context. Further difficulties arise from the need to measure empowerment as a process as opposed to a fixed condition or outcome.
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  NGO Alternative Pre-Sessional Report on Israel's Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)

  2005

  Israel is responsible under international law to implement the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Palestinian Occupied Territories (OPT). Why, then, are violations of the Convention in the OPT widespread and increasing?
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  Resolution on The Situation of and Assistance to Palestinian Women

  2005

  In December 2004, the United Nations' Secretary-General produced a report on the situation of, and assistance to, Palestinian women. This paper outlines the response of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

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