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  Getting at the roots: re-integrating human rights and gender equality in the post-2015 development agenda

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2014

  This paper aims to contribute to debates on addressing root causes of inequalities, including gender inequality, within the post-2015 development process. It examines shortfalls in past development policy and practice, and implications of that experience for the post‐2015 development agenda.
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  How Technology is Being Used to Perpetrate Violence Against Women – And to Fight it

  Association for Progressive Communications, 2010

  How are new technologies used by abusers of violence against women and how are they used by women fighting back? This briefing reveals new research on this topic. The cases were uncovered in research commissioned by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) in 12 developing countries in 2009.
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  Unpacking rights in indigenous African societies: indigenous culture and the question of sexual and reproductive rights in Africa

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011

  Modern declarations on human rights have often proceeded without reference to the cultural content of rights, the existence of rights in African indigenous backgrounds, and the embodiment of certain key rights in the community itself.
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  Financing the unfinished business of gender equality and women’s rights: priorities for the post-2015 framework – TECHNICAL BRIEF

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Development Assistance Committee, 2014

  This technical paper analyses investments by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors in six policy areas that are priorities for the post-2015 development agenda because of their catalytic impact on achieving gender equality and women’s rights: girls’ education; sexual and reproductive health and rights; women’s economic empow
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  Policy Brief & Recommendations -Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Open Working Group (OWG) - Promoting Equality, including Social Equity, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

  High Level Task Force for ICPD (International Conference on Population and Development), 2014

  Only two out of 130 countries with available data have reached gender parity in all levels of education. If women had the same access to land, productive assets and farming inputs as men, farm yields could increase by 20-30 per cent, and this could reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12-17 per cent.
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  Gender patterns and value of unpaid work: findings from China's first large-scale time use survey

  United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012

  In 2008, the first large-scale time-use survey (TUS) was carried out across China. This paper, produced by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, analyses the TUS data collected, describing the gender patterns across three different types of activity: paid work, unpaid work, and non-work activity.
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  Tackling institutional violence: the protocol for harassment and sexual harassment in the Mexican Federal Public Administration

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2014

  The Intervention Protocol for Harassment and Sexual Harassment is a pioneering attempt from the Mexican Federal Government to transform the structural causes of institutional violence within the public administration. Initiated in 2009, the Protocol has been implemented in over 30 state institutions, with replication now taking place at local level.
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  The hegemony cracked: the power guide to getting care onto the development agenda.

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012

  Numerous factors have played their part in keeping care of the development agenda: silence from government allows them to pass on the costs to families and communities rather than financing care as a public good; self-interest and peer-group dynamics have contributed to development practitioners avoiding the issue; and those most affected - the caregivers themselves - are often those who are mo
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  Watering the leaves, starving the roots: the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013

  In the foreword to this report, AWID Executive Director Lydia Alpízar writes that she finds it, “truly surprising… that women’s rights organising and movements have been functioning, often with quite minimal financial support, even as their experience and effectiveness has increased.”
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  National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights ((NCDHR))

  National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights is a forum committed to the elimination of discrimination based on caste.

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