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    The criminal justice system and rape: an attitudinal study of the public sector response to rape in Karachi

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2012
    In the year 2011, the Capital City Police reported that 103 cases of rape and sexual assault were reported across Karachi. However, in community meetings held across Karachi in all 18 towns of the city, participants knew of over 50 cases that had never been reported to the police. The exact frequency of cases is impossible to establish.
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    Accelerating progress in Family Planning: options for strengthening civil society-led monitoring and accountability

    Results for Development Institute, 2014
    In recent years, accountability initiatives led by citizens and civil society organizations (CSOs) have proliferated, particularly in the health and education sectors.
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    Gender equality and the participation of women in public office in Swaziland

    Afrobarometer, 2014
    Gender equity in all areas of decision making continues to pose major challenges for governments across Africa. In this sense, the current brief highlights that most African countries, including Swaziland, will miss gender targets set for 2015.
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    Challenging the negative discourse on human rights in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The recent proliferation of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and independent media across Africa is an important positive development. They play an essential role by investigating government policy, exposing corruption and human rights violations, advocating for the rights of minorities and vulnerable communities, and providing social services.
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    Looking at conditions of persons with disability in Metro Manila

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    The need to understand the conditions of persons with disability (PWD) is not only linked with Philippines' aim to reduce poverty and adhere to the goals stated in the 2000 Millennium Declaration but also and, more importantly, with the goal to improve the lives of PWDs in the long run. 
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    Women's Climate Action Agenda 2014-2015

    The Women's Earth & Climate Action Network, 2014
    The Women's Climate Action Agenda argues for transformative change and analyses the root causes of the environmental destruction and social injustice and offers recommendations and alternative solutions to the climate crisis. These include that global climate change needs to be stopped and the rights of nature protected.
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    Gender equality: a governance matter

    UN Women, 2013
    Does gender inequality constitute a governance failure? This policy brief describes how it is a governance failure when governments are unable or unwilling to translate gender equality commitments into reality.
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    Gender Responsive Budgeting and the Aid Effectiveness Agenda: Experiences from Mozambique

    2014
    This article examines how gender-equality objectives have been addressed within the context of the Paris Declaration and related aid-reform processes. The focus of the article is on gender-responsive budgeting (GRB), an approach that is being increasingly advanced to increase the gender sensitivity of changing aid modalities, but which has remained understudied.
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    Gender Equality From A Gender Budgeting Perspective

    2012
    Gender budgeting, also known as gender responsive budgeting, tracks how budgets respond to gender equality and women’s rights requirements. This entails investing in, and making available mechanisms, guidelines and indicators that enable gender equality advocates to track progress, and show how supposedly gender-neutral budgets impact men and women.
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    Moving toward sexual and reproductive justice: a transnational and multigenerational feminist remix

    Oxford Handbooks Online (Oxford University Press), 2014
    This online book chapter maps the journey of the transnational feminist sexual health and reproductive rights (SRHR) movement over the last twenty years, focusing on its engagement in United Nations processes.

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