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A Voice of Our Own: Advocacy by Women with Disability in Australia and the Pacific
Routledge, 2005Women with disabilities are largely invisible within women's rights and disability rights agendas. They do not generally benefit from international human rights laws and agreements, or from development processes. This is particularly evident for women in the Pacific region and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.DocumentBurma: The Current State of Women in Conflict Areas. A Shadow Report To The 22nd Session of CEDAW
Women of Burma, 2000Produced by indigenous women's organisations from Burma, this report highlights issues in education, health, violence and poverty as they affect women in Burma, particularly in rural conflict areas. The ruling military regime - the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) - has used force to maintain its control.DocumentAny Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?
2005Contrary to reports from Burma's ruling military regime on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) (the plan to come out of the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women), women in Myanmar do not enjoy equal rights with men.DocumentGender dimensions of intellectual property and traditional medicinal knowledge
The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2007Trade in medicinal and aromatic plants is big business. How can Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect female practitioners of Traditional Medicinal Knowledge (TMK)?DocumentGender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the 'Feminisation of Poverty' in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Marston Book Services Limited, 2007Although the popular concept of a 'feminisation of poverty' may have raised women's visibility in development discourses and gone some way to 'en-gender' policies for poverty reduction, it is only weakly substantiated.DocumentWomen and food crises: how US food aid policies can better support their struggles
ActionAid International, 2007Women are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately affected by hunger, yet their important role in providing solutions is often overlooked.DocumentSocio-economic and Gender Sensitive Indicators in the Management of Natural Resources
2003In spite of the many recent UN system-wide commitments and mandates to evaluate progress made in gender mainstreaming, an assessment of the current status of socio-economic and gender-sensitive indicators in the management of natural resources revealed an almost complete lack of practical experience in this area.DocumentConceptual and Methodological Guidelines to Design and Use Gender Indicators in IFAD Projects in Latin America and the Caribbean
International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2004The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) sees the elimination of gender inequalities as strategically fundamental to the effectiveness of its programmes. This document provides a guide to the design and use of gender-sensitive indicators for monitoring and evaluating IFAD programmes.DocumentAccountability Upside Down: Gender Equality in a Partnership for Poverty Eradication
Social Watch, 2005Until recently, projects or programmes were the principal mechanism through which donors provided development assistance to partner countries. Yet, with the introduction of new aid mechanisms, donor funds are increasingly being channelled to partner governments through direct budget support.DocumentWomen's Health in The Village of Rihiyya: Political, Economic and Social Limitations
2007Rihiyya village is located in the south of Hebron district in the West Bank. Here, in February and March 2007, Physicians for Human Rights conducted in-depth interviews with seven women who attended their mobile health clinics. The aim was to find out about the condition of women's health and to determine what health facilities were required for the area.Pages