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    Looking through Gender Lenses: Position Paper on Gender Equality

    2006
    Women are discriminated against in all aspects of Burmese society - particularly in the public sphere. The military regime has deepened this inequality, as women are excluded from entering the military and from holding many government positions.
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    Any Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?

    2005
    Contrary 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.
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    Unsafe State: State-Sanctioned Sexual Violence Against Chin Women in Burma

    2007
    Women in Chin State, an isolated mountainous region of Western Burma, are systematically sexually abused by troops of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the ruling military regime in the country. This report documents 38 cases of sexual violence and claims that the patterns of abuse are state sanctioned. The ruling regime has expanded its army in the region.
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    PeaceWomen

    2007
    PeaceWomen is a project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), which provides information on women, peace and security issues in areas of armed conflict. A core focus of the project is to monitor and work towards the rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325.
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    Mapping multilateral development banks’ reproductive health and HIV/AIDS spending

    Gender Action, 2007
    This is the first report testing Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) commitment to promote reproductive health, prevent HIV and treat AIDS. It analyses the quantity and quality of MDB funding for these sectors during 2003-2006 and highlights how MDB and International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies undermine achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reproductive health and HIV/AIDS targets.
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    International and Regional Databases of Gender Statistics

    BRIDGE, 2007
    Gender equality needs to be measured and documented because what gets measured is more likely to be addressed. For example, Rwandan women parliamentarians joined forces with national and international non-governmental organisations, United Nations agencies and the National Gender Machinery to use statistics on gender-based violence (GBV) to lobby for a GBV bill.
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    Policy Makers and the Use of Gender Statistics: A Palestinian Perspective

    International Association for Official Statistics, 2000
    In 1996, the Gender Statistics Program (GSP) was established in the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Its main objective was to provide policy makers and Women's Departments within the Palestinian Ministries with adequate gender statistics, necessary in their work to mainstream gender issues into the overall policy formulation and planning.
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    A Gap Analysis Report on the Status of The Palestinian Women In the Context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

    Mediterranean Women, 2001
    Initiated by the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), this gap analysis report was the result of over two years of concerted efforts of a number of Palestinian non-governmental organisations and government institutions.
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    Gender Equality and Aid Delivery: What has Changed in Development Co-operation Agencies since 1999?

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007
    Set against the background of significant changes in aid delivery since the late 1990s, this report examines practices and institutional approaches to gender equality and women's empowerment in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members' development co operation agencies.
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    Proposed Indicators to measure the targets set by the international Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002
    This document is part of a proposal being developed to generate a system of indicators to measure progress towards meeting the objectives of the Action Plan of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Latin America and the Caribbean. A regional system of indicators is proposed to measure progress and identify inequalities among the various population groups.

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