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    Women's political participation and influence in Sierra Leone

    Fride, 2009
    Gender relations in Sierra Leone are extremely unequal and Sierra Leonean women face high levels of exclusion, violence and poverty.
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    The state of reform in the Arab World 2009-2010: The Arab Democracy Index

    The Arab Reform Initiative, 2010
    This report seeks to influence the process of democratic transition by providing an index that allows advocates of democracy in the Arab world to monitor the evolution of this process. It could also serve as an important advocacy learning tool for citizens who wish to hold leaders to account and participate in decision making.  Findings include:
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    Politics women's representation in Sudan

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2010
    Women’s political participation is regarded as not only desirable but vital to the advancement of gender equality. In light of this, this report explores women’s representation in Sudan.
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    Empowering Maasai women in Tanzania

    2010
    Maasai women are among the poorest and most marginalised groups in Tanzanian society. A local women-led organisation – the Pastoral Women’s Council – works to improve the lives of Maasai pastoralist women and children by increasing their access to social services and economic empowerment.
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    Our rights are not optional: advocating for the implementation of CEDAW through its Optional Protocol

    International Women's Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific, 2008
    The Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (OP-CEDAW) can help ensure that State Parties to CEDAW are accountable for its implementation. This publication aims to strengthen existing efforts around the ratification and effective use of the OP-CEDAW at the national level.
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    Participatory gender analysis: a tool to promote gender equity within the Union Parishad in Bangladesh

    Intercooperation Bangladesh, 2009
    These guidelines have been prepared as a tool for conducting participatory discussion and analysis on the social position and condition of men and women within the context of the Union Parishad (UP) regional structure in Bangladesh.
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    United Nations Foundation (UNF)

    The UN Foundation, a public charity, was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities.
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    Strategies for policy makers: bringing women into governments

    Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2009
    Involvement of women in peace processes brings skills, attributes, and perspectives to government processes. Post conflict governments that have involved women have tended to build governance systems which are stable and transparent.
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    Mainstreaming gender into Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programmes: a training manual for water professionals

    Gender and Water Alliance, 2009
    The training manual on mainstreaming gender into Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programmes is an integrated approach to both gender and WASH issues. It aims to provide participatory gender-sensitive training to water professionals at the policy, project and administrative levels through building their capacity for mainstreaming gender into WASH programmes.
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    From perversion to pathology: discourses and practices of gender policing in the Islamic Republic of Iran

    Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 2009
    The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) punishes homosexuality with death but acknowledges transsexuality, and partially funds sex change operations. This article examines how this seemingly progressive stance on transsexuality is connected to Iran's larger, and the authors argue, oppressive apparatus of gender.

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