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    Progress of the world’s women 2008/2009: who answers to women? gender and accountability

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2008
    UNIFEM’s biennial flagship report argues that realising women’s rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals depends on strengthening accountability for commitments to women and gender equality.
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    Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

    The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) is a non-profit membership organisation and a multi-disciplinary research institute of the University of Calgary.
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    Claiming rights, claiming justice: a guidebook on women human rights defenders

    Oxfam Novib, 2007
    Women human rights defenders are women who defend human rights as well as those who defend sexuality-related rights. This guidebook is designed to support the ongoing process of enhancing the understanding of, and sensitivity to, the specific issues and situations confronted by women human rights defenders.
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    Gender, land rights and democratic governance

    UNDP Democratic Governance Group, 2008
    The issue of gender and land rights has tended to be overlooked when national governments embark on reviews of land policies and land laws. This paper discusses the relationship between law and development, exploring the implications for gender relations of the proposed formalisation of property rights. It provides a theoretical and evidence-based critique.
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    Programme insights: learning for action on women's leadership and participation: all papers

    Oxfam, 2008
    Women are often denied a voice within the states, markets, communities, and households in which they live, dominated as they are by men and male interests.
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    Gender in local government: a sourcebook for trainers

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2008
    Women and girls make up the majority of the population in most countries, therefore, it can be argued that local democracy, inclusiveness and sustainability can only be achieved when this share of the population has an equal say in the way that cities and municipalities are organized and managed.
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    Women, slums and urbanisation: examining the causes and consequences

    Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2008
    Countries throughout the world are rapidly urbanising, particularly in the developing world, and for the first time in human history, the majority of people today are no longer living in rural areas, but rather in cities. This report examines the worldwide phenomenon of urbanisation from the point of view of women’s housing rights.
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    CEDAW benchbook framework

    United Nations [UN] Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 2008
    The Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was ratified by the Philippines in 1981. This benchbook seeks to contribute to the clarification of how jurisprudence has helped in the realisation of women’s human rights and how it can further so do, using State obligations under the CEDAW as the standard.
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    Fear, violence and sexual violence in a Gauteng juvenile correctional centre for males

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2007
    Violence, described as endemic to South African Correctional Centres is generally under-reported and a severe hindrance to the Department of Correctional Services’ current and ambitious vision to reduce re-offending through rehabilitating offenders.
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    Gender and security sector reform toolkit

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2008
    Security sector reform (SSR) opens a window of opportunity to transform security policies, institutions and programmes by integrating gender issues. The Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit is an initial response to the need for more information and analysis on gender and SSR processes.

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