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    Gender Accountability: Services Fail Poor Women

    Gender Diversiteit Annette Evertzen, 2008
    What role can donors play in ensuring that women and girls are able to claim their right to equal access to basic services? How can donors help ensure these services are gender-sensitive? This paper considers what is needed in order to make public services - mainly health and education - work for poor women. It argues that services often fail poor women and girls in three key respects:
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    M?ori Women: Mapping Inequalities and Pointing Ways Forward

    2001
    How do M?ori women fare in comparison to M?ori men, non-M?ori women and non-M?ori men? This report maps these inequalities across six sectors: education, employment, income, health, housing, and criminal justice. In addition, it seeks to analyse the status of M?ori women and girls relative to other groups, and in relation to the New Zealand Government's goals for women.
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    Written Comments of the European Roma Rights Centre Concerning Hungary, For Consideration by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at its 39th Session (July 23-August 10, 2007)

    2007
    The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) submitted this parallel report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
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    Reducing Poverty and Social Exclusion: Czech Republic

    United Nations Development Programme, 2004
    To what extent has the Czech Republic achieved the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) particularly those that relate to gender issues? At first glance, the Czech Republic appears to have fulfilled the majority of the goals.
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    Whispers to voices: gender and social transformation in Bangladesh

    World Bank Publications, 2008
    Why has Bangladesh been hailed as 'a shining new example' of a poor country achieving impressive gains in gender equality? According to this World Bank report, Bangladesh has made great progress in achieving gender equality and enhancing the status of women.
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    Progress Report on Women and Gender Development

    Tanzania Ministry of Community Development Gender and Children, 2003
    This report maps progress on Tanzania's commitment to tackling gender inequality in light of the government's signing and ratification of international and regional agreements including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Gender and Development Declaration by Heads of State and Government of Southern African Development Corporation (SADC).
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    UNIFEM Afganistan Fact Sheet 2007

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007
    What is women's situation in Afghanistan in 2007? This factsheet presents key statistics in a number of key areas, including political participation, labour force participation, health, education, marriage and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world, and a low female life expectancy of just 44 years.
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    Iraq: The Status of Women in Iraq: An Assessment of Iraq's De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International Legal Standards

    Iraq Legal Development Project, 2005
    Although women in Iraq have a 25 percent quota in political representation, they still face considerable obstacles in their quest to secure their human rights. This paper assesses the degree to which Iraqi women in law (de jure) and in practice (de facto) enjoy the protection of their rights as guaranteed under international agreements.
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    World Bank Gender Stats: Iraq

    World Bank, 2007
    GenderStats is the World Bank's database of country gender statistics. Its pages on Iraq present sex disaggregated figures on size of population, life expectancy at birth, labour force participation, education and health. The web site also features an ?empowerment table?, which monitors the number of women representatives in national and local government in Iraq.
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    Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007

    2007
    Girls are getting a raw deal. They face double discrimination on account of their gender and their age, and in many societies they remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder. 'Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007' is the first in a series of annual reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women.

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