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  Aruna Roy of MKSS on Demanding Accountability through the Right to Information in India

  2004

  The NGO Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS - the Workers' and Farmers' Power Association) in Rajasthan, India, has sparked off a nation-wide right-to-information campaign. This interview with Aruna Roy, one of its founding activists, explores how MKSS demands accountability through the right to information, serving both the needs of lower caste and class women and men.
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  Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Voice and Accountability

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  The concepts of voice and accountability form the core values of good governance - of ensuring that citizens have a voice in decisions made about their lives and that states and other actors hear those voices and respond to them.
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  Institutional Change and Accountability: Notes on a Strategy

  2003

  Why is accountability to women important in relation to human security? In order for organisations to achieve true human security they need to redress gender inequity and support women's rights. To realise women's rights, they must ensure the active participation of women and also work on changing institutions (i.e. families, communities, markets and the state).
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  Our Common Interest, Report of the Commission for Africa

  Commission for Africa, 2005

  This year promises to be a decisive one for Africa. In 2005, the United Nations (UN) will conduct a five-year review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to halve world poverty (most of which is in Africa) by 2015.
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  Sudan Gender Profile

  United Nations Joint Assessment Mission, 2004

  This factsheet provides an overview of gender concerns and the status of women in Sudan.
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  Decision of the Prime Minister of the Government on the Approval of the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam by 2010

  Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 2002

  This is the official approval by the Prime Minister of the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women. This document reiterates the overall and specific objectives of the strategy and lays out the main measure for implementation.
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  Plan of Action for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women by 2005

  National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam, 2002

  The National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam (NCFAW) developed this Plan of Action to guide implementation of the first five years of the ?National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam by 2010?. It follows the format of the strategy - with coverage of the overall objective and its five specific objectives, including implementation arrangements.
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  Towards a comprehensive approach of sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict: a practical guide for programme officers

  Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003

  For some years, awareness about the need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for women in situations of war and armed conflict has been growing. As a result, humanitarian aid programmes are paying more and more attention to the provision of SRH services in the field, but a more holistic and integrated approach to SRH is often still lacking.
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  NGOs? Report on the Implementation of the CEDAW Convention: A Parallel Report to the Periodic Report

  2003

  This report parallels the government's second periodic report of 1999. It finds that women's struggle to reform their status has not yet yielded results. The mobilisation to reform the Code for Personal Status and to establish a code for the family which is based on more egalitarian conjugal and family relations, has been slow and faced much resistance.
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  Second Periodic Report to CEDAW Committee- Morocco

  United Nations, 2002

  Many rights are already guaranteed by law, and government ministries and NGOs are taking initiatives to implement these. The Secretariat of State in charge of Social Protection, Family and Children, working with the World Bank, has prepared a national strategy for integrating women into development, as part of the follow up to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

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