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    CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Egypt

    United Nations, 2000
    This submission by the government of Egypt to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) combines the fourth and fifth periodic reports, covering the period 1994 to 1998. It highlights the important role women have played in the country's development processes.
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    Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism, and Coalition Politics

    2003
    Egypt's Personal Status Law (PSL) coalition, made up of activists, lawyers, government officials, NGO leaders, legislators, and scholars, has been lobbying for 15 years for changes to the personal status laws that govern marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance.
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    Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research

    1998
    How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research.
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    Contested Terrain: Oxfam, Gender, and the Aftermath of War

    Oxfam, 2001
    The topic of gender relations in the context of conflict covers highly sensitive terrain, not only within the war-torn society, but for intervening institutions. Like other international humanitarian agencies, Oxfam Great Britain (GB) has faced difficult questions about whether its presence has sometimes done more harm than good.
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    Gender in Practice: A Tool-kit for Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and its Partners

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2003
    This kit does not claim to provide all the answers, but does offer key questions to ask on gender, and tools which can be adapted to different situations. While the pack targets SDC and partners, it is also useful to gender mainstreaming in other organisations.
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    Millennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens

    United Nations Development Programme, 2003
    A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims.
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    Gender and Development: An Information Kit

    2000
    This information kit is a tool for gender and development specialists/ consultants working in Egypt. It was produced by the Gender and Development (GAD) Sub-Group, the body responsible for coordinating and sharing information between the UN, bilateral donor and Egyptian NGOs on gender initiatives in Egypt. The kit is broken down into five booklets.
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    Luchando por la Justicia: las Mujeres Peruanas en la B£squeda de Los desaparecidos [Fighting forJustice: Peruvian Women in the Search for the Disappeared]

    BRIDGE, 2003
    How has a gender analysis been used in areas of post-conflict? In Peru, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) was set up following two decades of political violence spanning the period from 1980 to 2000.
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    Arms to Fight, Arms to Protect: Women Speak out about Conflict

    Panos Institute, London, 1995
    The survival struggles of ordinary women - whether as fighters, rape survivors, camp inhabitants, mothers or peacemakers - are highlighted in the accounts of conflict situations covered in this report. As part of the process of compiling testimonies, the authors set up partnerships with interested women's groups in different countries.
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    With the People, For the People: Gonoshasthaya Kendra Bangladesh (The People's Health Centre)

    One World Action, 2003
    At a time when the benefits of development policies often only reach small, urban elites, how can development organisations better help with the problems faced by excluded and vulnerable populations such as women and children? This report outlines the work of Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK), or The People's Health Centre, in Bangladesh.

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