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    Any Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?

    2005
    Contrary to reports from Burma's ruling military regime on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) (the plan to come out of the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women), women in Myanmar do not enjoy equal rights with men.
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    Unsafe State: State-Sanctioned Sexual Violence Against Chin Women in Burma

    2007
    Women in Chin State, an isolated mountainous region of Western Burma, are systematically sexually abused by troops of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the ruling military regime in the country. This report documents 38 cases of sexual violence and claims that the patterns of abuse are state sanctioned. The ruling regime has expanded its army in the region.
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    PeaceWomen

    2007
    PeaceWomen is a project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), which provides information on women, peace and security issues in areas of armed conflict. A core focus of the project is to monitor and work towards the rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325.
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    International and Regional Databases of Gender Statistics

    BRIDGE, 2007
    Gender equality needs to be measured and documented because what gets measured is more likely to be addressed. For example, Rwandan women parliamentarians joined forces with national and international non-governmental organisations, United Nations agencies and the National Gender Machinery to use statistics on gender-based violence (GBV) to lobby for a GBV bill.
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    Policy Makers and the Use of Gender Statistics: A Palestinian Perspective

    International Association for Official Statistics, 2000
    In 1996, the Gender Statistics Program (GSP) was established in the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Its main objective was to provide policy makers and Women's Departments within the Palestinian Ministries with adequate gender statistics, necessary in their work to mainstream gender issues into the overall policy formulation and planning.
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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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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 19: Gender and Indicators

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    What does a world without gender inequality look like? Realising this vision requires inspiring and mobilising social change. But what would indicate we are on the right track - and how will we know when we get there?
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    The Model Parliament for Family Law Reform: A Significant Step towards Linking Women's Issues with National Concerns

    Women Living Under Muslim Law, 2004
    The 1993 Oslo agreement resulted in the forming of the Palestinian Authority but it did not create a separate Palestinian state. This deprived many Palestinians of their fundamental right to self-determination and in the years that followed Palestinians passionately discussed every new law that was proposed.
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    Palestinian Women in Israel

    Coalition of Women for Peace, 2004
    Palestinian women living in Israel experience overlapping spheres of discrimination - politically, economically, and socially. Politically, Israel is dominated by men particularly those from the military. Although many women are dissatisfied with how political parties address women's concerns, fewer and fewer women are entering politics.
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    Occupation, Patriarchy, and the Palestinian Women's Movement. An Interview with Hanadi Loubani

    Mediterranean Women, 2003
    Hanadi Loubani is a founding member of Women for Palestine, a feminist, anti-racist Palestinian solidarity group. In this interview, she explains the background to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, how it intersects with patriarchy (the systemic structures that institutionalise male power over women), and some of the responses from the Palestinian women's movement.

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