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Remarks by Lakshmi Puri at a CSW58 side event on “ICT and the Internet as powerful means in advancing women’s rights and empowerment: Possibilities and Challenges”
UN Women, 2014In March 2014, Ms Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director of the UN Women, delivered these opening remarks at a Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) side event.DocumentThe epistemology of womanhood: ignored contentions among Igbo women of eastern Nigeria
African Journals Online - AJOL, 2013Can gender consciousness influence behaviour patterns? This publication aims to extrapolate that sometimes the discrimination that women suffer are not inspired by masculine outlooks, but by the feminist mind-set, that is, the epistemology of womanhood.DocumentA girl's right to say no to marriage: working to end child marriage and keep girls in school
Plan International, 2013One in three girls in the developing world are married by their eighteenth birthday. Despite being prohibited by international human rights, child marriage continues to be a violation of children’s human rights. This report by Plan International focuses on the importance of education in preventing child marriages.DocumentYouth Strategize For The Post 2015 Development Agenda
AWID News, 2014What are the challenges of addressing ‘Youth’ in the post-2015 development agenda process? This article highlights key points on strategizing for the post-2015 development process addressed during a meeting by the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (YCSRR) held in Hong Kong in June 2014.DocumentGrowth and economic opportunities for women: literature review to inform the DFID-IDRC-Hewlett Foundation research program on women's economic empowerment, gender equality and growth in low income countries
International Development Research Centre, 2013This is a background paper for a new research programme on women’s economic empowerment. It is a comprehensive literature review on the state of the field. Section 1 briefly discusses the global evidence on existing gender disparities in employment, wages, business opportunities, and the care economy.DocumentWomen's rights and gender equality in the post-2015 framework
Womankind, 2014This paper calls for women’s rights to be central to the post-2015 development framework. It is a collaborative publication produced by Womankind Worldwide, the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Kenya, Liberia Women Media Action Committee (LIWOMAC), and Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF) Ghana.DocumentIntersessional Report of the Mechanism of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa since its Establishment
2012This report by Ms Soyata Maiga, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa was submitted for consideration during the 52nd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (2012).DocumentIntegrating gender equality in climate smart development
The Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment, 2014This interactive tool offers support in integrating gender equality in climate smart development. Via tabs you can easily navigate between policy cycle, recommendations, quick links etc. This allows you to find relevant information without having to read the whole document.DocumentFlexible, Open and Distance Learning: An Enabler or Barrier to Women’s Empowerment through Education and Learning
Commonwealth of Learning, 2013Can flexible, open and distance learning (FODL) deliver education equitably and equally, as well as remove barriers to women’s learning and enhance empowerment, in the Global South?DocumentViolence, Gender & WASH
Loughborough University of Technology, 2014This toolkit has been developed in response to an acknowledgement that although the lack of access to appropriate water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) is not the root cause of violence, it can lead to increased vulnerabilities to violence of varying forms.Pages