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Sustaining Women’s Gains in Rwanda: The Influence of Indigenous Culture and Post-Genocide Politics
2009In 2003, Rwanda elected 48.8 percent women to its lower house of parliament, giving it the world's highest percentage of women in a national legislature. This paper from the Institute for Inclusive Security highlights the importance of policies, mechanisms, and institutions that can provide a structural framework for sustaining women's gains.DocumentRussia: Gender Equality Issues and Resources In Brief
Canadian International Development Agency, 1999This brief summarises three major gender equality issues in Russia: the impacts on women of the transition to a market economy; the development of democratic institutions and responsive government processes; and violence against women. The brief notes that the average level of education of Russian women is among the highest in the world and equal to that of Russian men.DocumentBRIDGE Bibliography 9: Women's and gender budgets: an annotated resource list
BRIDGE, 1999At the macroeconomic level, public expenditure decisions have been shown to be 'gender-blind' and disadvantage women. Efforts to engender national budgets can be either initiated from within government or outside government, but most have come from outside. South Africa's national level Women's Budget experience has provided inspiration to other countries in the region and globally.DocumentFundacion Colectivo Cabildeo – Cartillas Informativas - Democracia Intercultural
2010The Colectivo Cabildeo is a group of women based in Bolivia, South America, that aim to generate spaces for discussion, research, capacity building and communications among women and with other social actors for women’s advancement and empowerment.DocumentObservatorio de Igualdad de Genero en America Latina y el Caribe
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010Women’s autonomy in the private and public spheres is fundamental to ensure they can exercise their human rights. ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean – CEPAL in Spanish) is managing a programme monitoring how countries in the region fare to achieve gender equality.DocumentNational mechanisms for gender equality and empowerment of women in Latin America and the Caribbean region
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010In the diverse region of Latin America and the Caribbean, there can be no fixed model on how national mechanisms for gender equality should work. The creation of these mechanisms in the region was a relatively late and unequal phenomenon, emerging after a period of antidemocratic and authoritarian governments, internal strife and violent political struggles.Pages