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Women moving mountains: collective impact of the Dutch MDG3 fund
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013Through decades of collective and individual struggle, and determined, conscious design, the women’s rights movement has achieved unprecedented shifts in global perception to the notion of gender equality as a desirable goal.DocumentReport of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (UN General Assembly, sixty-eighth session)
United Nations General Assembly, 2013Despite being a major barrier to the enjoyment of full economic and social rights for women, the issue of unpaid care work has received little attention from states, and even human rights organisations.DocumentWatering the leaves, starving the roots: the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013In 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.”DocumentSexuality and Empowerment: An Intimate Connection
Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2011What does sexuality have to do with women’s empowerment? Research from Pathways of Women’s Empowerment shows that sexuality affects women’s political and economic empowerment in a number of important ways.DocumentFactsheet Violence Against Women – The missing MDG?
2013The aim of this factsheet is not only to inform policy makers in the post-2015 debate on this issue, but especially to help development practitioners to become more aware of violence against women (VAW) in their day to day work across all thematic domains and to find sustainable ways to combat this phenomenon in their contexts.DocumentBecause I am a Girl. Double jeopardy: adolescent girls and disasters - the state of the World's girls 2013
Plan International, 2013This 2013 ‘Because I am a Girl’ report looks at what happens to adolescent girls in disasters, and why.DocumentWomen for Peace 2013
Women in Black, 2013‘Women for Peace’ is a collection of women's testimonies on war and women's resistance to war primarily in former Yugoslavia, particularly through the Women in Black movement in Bosnia, a worldwide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence.Document‘Forced Marriage’ in conflict situations: researching and prosecuting old harms and new crimes
Canadian Journal of Human Rights, 2013In this article, the author explores the crime of forced marriage in conflict situations and argues that the practices referred to as forced marriage in war (which can includeDocumentGlobal report on the situation of women human rights defenders
Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition, 2012This extensive report was produced between 2005 and 2012 by members of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition. It includes 43 detailed case studies selected by coalition members. The first section focuses on the context in which women human rights defenders (WHRDs) work.DocumentUrgent responses for women human rights defenders at risk: mapping and preliminary assessment
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011The work to protect women human rights defenders (WHRDs) is relatively new, and many existing resources were not designed specifically for them. It is widely recognised that WHRDs face the same types of risks as all human rights defenders, with additional gender-specific risks, such as being targets for gender-based violence.Pages