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    Nepal: a Gender View of the Armed Conflict and the Peace Process

    2008
    Over the last two years Nepal has been engaged in a peace process aimed at tackling the causes of the 10 year armed conflict between the government and the Maoist party. During this decade the impact on women of a sharp increase in the number of female-headed households, was made worse by the threat of gender-based violence mainly at the hands of the State security forces.
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    Women's Representation Quotas (in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland)

    Electoral Institute of South Africa, 2008
    How has the experience of political quotas differed between Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, and what impact have they had on female political representation? Because Lesotho introduced temporary quotas for women's political representation in local government, in the last election women formed more than half of the representatives at this level and took significant leadership roles.
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    Gender and Elections in Lesotho - Perspectives on the 2002 Elections

    Electoral Institute of South Africa, 2004
    Lesotho had a recently improved legal environment for women's increased political participation in the 2002 elections, due to a constitution demanding equality before the law and the 2001 National Assembly Elections Amendment Act, which urged political parties to 'take issues of gender equality into account in the election process'.
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    Change and Continuity in Social Protection in Latin America: Mothers at the Service of the State?

    2007
    Far from 'empowering' women, social protection programmes in Latin America often increase women's unpaid responsibilities and reinforce the gender division of labour. This is the central argument put forward in this paper, which critically analyses two social protection programmes in Latin America. The first is the well-known Mexican-based Oportunidades programme (formerly Progresa).
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    Manual for Gender Mainstreaming: Social Inclusion and Social Protection Policies

    European Commission, 2007
    What do EU policy makers need to do to mainstream gender into social inclusion and social protection policies? This manual provides policy makers with a hands-on tool to aid this process. It suggests several factors to consider when designing social protection policies.
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    Review of experience in engaging with non-state justice systems in East Africa

    Department for International Development, UK, 2003
    This report seeks to help DfID understand the range of non-formal justice systems in the East Africa region, and to develop guidelines on how to work with such systems to make justice more accessible to poor people. The report is based on a review of relevant experience in three East African countries: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
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    Does Size Matter? Critical Mass and Women MPs in the New Zealand House of Representatives

    Centre for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics, 2001
    Do women only influence political decisions once they achieve a critical mass within legislative bodies? In New Zealand an increased feminisation of the political agenda was achieved once women made up just 15% of the House of Representatives. Women politicians actively led debates on child care, parental leave and spoke of their pride in having the voice to represent women as a group.
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    Women's Situation in New Zealand

    Online Women in Politics, 2000
    This brief outlines the status of women in New Zealand in relation to politics and decision-making, and violence against women, trafficking of women and women's rights violations. Women remain underrepresented in government in New Zealand - for example of the 25 members of the Cook Islands Parliament only two are women.
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    New Zealand Census of Women's Participation 2008

    2008
    In New Zealand, women hold only five per cent of chief executive positions in local government. Only three of the 50 highest ranking police officers are women. And there has been only a 1.5 per cent improvement in women's representation in the judiciary between 2005 and 2007.
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    The Provision of Childcare Services in the Czech Republic

    2008
    This paper draws attention to the problems faced by parents in the Czech Republic in finding a place for their child in pre-school facilities. This is due both to the decline of childcare services since 1989, coupled with the slightly increasing trend in the fertility rates in recent years.

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