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  Gender mainstreaming project: the gender issue

  Eldis Document Store, 2007

  What is gender mainstreaming and how can gender equality be achieved? This paper gives a brief introduction to gender and how mainstreaming relates to poverty reduction. It provides an overview of gender inequality in Pakistan, looks at gender and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how to make MDG reporting gender-sensitive.
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  Women in Parliament: beyond numbers: a revised edition.

  International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2007

  This document provides a new and updated version of the 1998 ‘Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers Handbook’. This edition incorporates relevant global changes in the past years and presents revised case studies focusing on the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and a range of countries, from Argentina to Burkina Faso.
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  Gender Mainstreaming Project in Planning and Development Division, Government of Pakistant

  This 3-year project, involved in building capacity for gender mainstreaming, has the following objectives:
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  Gender dimensions of intellectual property and traditional medical knowledge

  United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Regional Centre in Colombo, 2007

  This paper examines the discussion on intellectual property rights (IP) for traditional knowledge (TK) in medicine from a gender perspective. It argues that a gender analysis of these issues adds to the understanding of how trade decisions can have important and unintended impacts on the lives of disempowered people.
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  Young children, HIV/AIDS and gender: a summary review

  Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2006

  Gender discrimination and inequality is a key factor in the transmission of HIV and AIDS.
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  Global Monitoring Report 2007: confronting the challenges of gender equality and fragile states

  World Bank, 2007

  The 2007 Global Monitoring Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) assesses the contributions of developing countries, developed countries, and international financial institutions toward meeting universally agreed development commitments.
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  Gender assessment of selected e-business and strategies in Asia: the case studies of Malaysia, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Thailand

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2006

  How can we ensure that women have equitable access to the benefits and opportunities made possible by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and how can ICTs be leveraged for women’s empowerment and the promotion of gender equality? This paper presents a study on gender and e-business in Malaysia, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Thailand.
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  Women’s rights and democracy: peaceful transformation in Iran

  Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2006

  Women and women’s rights play a central role in the movement for change in Iran. In spite of repression and discrimination, women are laying the foundation for social transformation.
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  Gender equality action plan 2007-2009: making faster progress to gender equality

  Department for International Development, UK, 2007

  What action does the Department for International Development (DFID) take to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment? This Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP) explains how DFID will help developing countries to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment.
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  Change, choice and power: young women, livelihoods and HIV prevention

  United Nations Population Fund, 2007

  The urgency of addressing the vulnerability of young women and adolescent girls of all backgrounds, but particularly the poor, cannot be over stated. Innovative, far-reaching and rapid responses are needed to impact whole generations so that the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty can be within reach.

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