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  International women's media foundation (IWMF)

  The IWMF's mission is to strengthen the role of women in the news media around the world, based on the belief that no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice.
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  BRIDGE Occasional paper: UNDP/BRIDGE panel discussion on gender sensitive indicators and measurements of change, 51st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

  BRIDGE, 2007

  Why is there a need for gender-sensitive measurements? How can we measure improvements in hard-to-measure areas such as empowerment or gender based violence? What are the uses and limits of international measurements?
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  Aid in support of gender equality and women’s empowerment

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2007

  This report summarises statistics of foreign aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment by members of the OECD Development Assistant Committee (DAC).
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  Making change happen: power

  Just Associates (JASS), 2006

  Despite previous advocacy successes, why do many strategies and approaches seem inadequate in the struggle to overcome poverty and injustice? What are sources of inspiration, experience and wisdom that we can draw upon to strengthen our efforts? How do we understand the complexities of power and empowerment, and how do we best respond to them in ways that use, build and transform power?
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  Civil society and democratization in the Arab world: annual report 2007

  Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, 2007

  All Arab leaders advocate democracy and claim that they are committed to democratic reforms. Tangible results, however, are hard to find. Arab countries are still ruled by authoritarian regimes and rulers are more concerned with retaining power than sharing it. Nonetheless, modest improvements have occurred in most Arab countries.
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  Council for Economic Empowerment for Women of Africa - Uganda Chapter

  The organisation's objectives include:
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  Is there equality in inequality? Scope and limits of affirmative actions

  Sur - International Journal on Human Rights, 2007

  Over the past two decades, Latin America has undergone a process of political, economic and social transformation, which has affected men and women in numerous ways. This paper reflects on the various steps taken in Latin America towards assuring gender equality.
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  Why the development industry should get over its obsession with bad sex and start to think about pleasure

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  The development industry has emphasised the dangers of sex and sexuality - in relation to population control, disease and violence. This negative approach to sex has been filtered through a view of gender which stereotypes men as predators, women as victims, and fails to recognise the existence of transgender people.
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  The efficiency of gender equity in economic growth: neoclassical and feminist approaches

  The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2007

  This paper critically discusses neoclassical and feminist challenges to standard neoclassical approaches to institutions by focusing on analyses of the role of gender equity in economic growth.
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  Enhanced commitments to women to ensure food security: key baseline survey findings

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2007

  This paper gives the results of a baseline study on the Enhanced Commitments to Women (ECW) programme. It was undertaken in 48 countries to assess how the World Food Programme’s (WFP) 2003-2007 Gender Policy was implemented. Within the survey, there were two levels of analysis: 

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