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  NGOs, gender mainstreaming and urban poor communities in Mumbai

  Oxfam, 2005

  This article argues that NGOs working at the community level can play an important role in supporting women to challenge customs and beliefs which perpetuate unequal gender relations.
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  Women are citizens too: the laws of the State, the lives of women

  Regional Bureau for Arab States, United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  This paper provides a synthesis of four papers which were written as part of a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) pilot initiative on gender and citizenship in the Arab world.
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  Poor people and democratic citizenship in Africa

  Afrobarometer, 2006

  A democratic political regime has long been regarded as an attribute of high-income, industrialized economies.
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  Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

  Oxfam, 2003

  This report argues that if development organisations are to help advance women's rights and full citizenship then they must abandon explanations on the basis of "culture" that ignore gender-based discrimination, and overcome their anxieties about appearing neo-colonial.
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  Women, nationality and citizenship

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  This report, published to promote the goals of the Beijing Platform for Action, looks at discrimination against women in nationality laws.
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  New forms of citizenship: democracy, family, and community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Oxfam, 2003

  This report questions how poor men and women living in Rio de Janeiro understand the idea of citizenship. It argues that the poor have not benefited from macro-economic reforms in Brazil and do not have confidence in the effectiveness of formal democratic participation.
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  Women in the global political landscape

  Eldis Gender Resource Guide, 2005

  Women in politics. (Eldis News Weblog, 2006) This commentary from an Eldis editor looks at women in politics across the world. With a particular focus on Liberia and Chile the blog entry considers the responsibilities facing female leaders and provides links for further information.
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  For or against gender equality?: evaluating the post cold war "rule of law" reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  The central question explored in this paper is: has the post-Cold-War rule of law (ROL) reform agenda in sub-Saharan Africa enhanced or impeded gender equality? Rule of law (ROL) reforms are seen as indispensable to establishing a market economy and democratic rule, the two prongs of the neo-liberal project.The paper is divided into three main sections.
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  Fine-tuning the NSP: discussions of problems and solutions with facilitating partners

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005

  This document considers the Afgan government's National Solidarity Programme (NSP).
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  From local to global: making peace work for women

  NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, 2005

  This report examines the progress of the Security Council Resolution 1325 (SCR 1325) and it’s call on the United Nations and Member States to increase the participation of women in decision-making and peace processes, to ensure the protection of women and girls, and to institute gender perspectives and training in peacekeeping.In their report the NGO Working Group of Women monitor the progress

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