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  African Women’s Decade 2010-2020: 2013 annual review

  2014

  Since the Continental Launch of the African Women’s Decade (AWD) by the African Union (AU) in 2010, what progress has been made to advance African women’s rights? Make Every Woman Count’s Annual Review of the AWD aims to evaluate the progress, or lack thereof, being made to include and promote the rights of women at country, regional, and Pan-African levels.
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  Guidelines for parliamentarians: abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting

  Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa, 2012

  At least 28 countries on the African continent practice some form of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C). Believing that FGM/C could be eradicated within a generation if appropriate actions are taken, the Association of European parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) and the Pan-African Parliament Women’s Caucus initiated a campaign to champion the cause among parliamentarians.
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  Study of fisheries and aquaculture value chains in Mozambique: how to reduce gender discrimination in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014

  A fact-finding mission about the role women play in fisheries and aquaculture in Mozambique was conducted between January 28 and February 14, 2014. The mission’s objective was to document the participation of women in two value chains: The smallscale capture fisheries value chain and the aquaculture value chain.
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  New developments in international poverty law: the UN guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2014

  The adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights (GP), by the UN Human Rights Council in September 2012 and by the General Assembly in December 2012, marked a potentially historic advance in the overall process of incorporating issues related to poverty and inequality into broader frameworks regarding the conceptualisation of human rights.
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  Gender in political economy analysis

  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014

  This report provides a brief examination of how and where gender analysis is incorporated into Political Economy Analysis (PEA). An initial review of the literature indicates that gender is not systematically included in PEA.
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  Gender equality and women’s rights in the post-2015 agenda: A foundation for sustainable development

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2013

  Why focus on gender equality in the post-2015 agenda?
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  Website: Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

  United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, 2013

  The Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development was established in 2013 to establish an inclusive and transparent intergovernmental process on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that is open to all stakeholders, with a view to developing global sustainable development goals to be agreed by the General Assembly.
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  Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls - Agreed Conclusions

  United Nations [UN] Commission on the Status of Women ., 2014

  The 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) ended with a strong call to prioritise gender equality and the human rights of women in order to achieve sustainable development.
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  Role of ICTs and egovt to promote gender equality in the Asia Pacific - Input for the research by United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG) on "Role of e-Government to Promote Gender Equality in the Asia Pacific"

  IT for Change, 2012

  How can the perceived gender neutrality of egovernance be overcome? Due to the technocratic vocabulary and direct private sector involvement, egovernance is generally not perceived as an area of governance reform or public administration.
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  The Post 2015 Development Agenda: What’s at Stake for the World’s Women? Perspectives from the Post-2015 Women’s Coalition

  2014

  This two-page document is essentially a call to action from the Women’s Coalition which emerged from the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign and coordinated efforts from women’s groups around the UN.

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