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  Gendering the Draft Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities

  2006

  There are an estimated 300 million women with disabilities world-wide. These women face discrimination based both on their disability and their gender. Three quarters of women with disabilities are excluded from the workforce and women and girls with disabilities are at high risk from physical and sexual violence. Meanwhile only one percent of disabled women and girls are literate.
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  Gender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member Agencies

  Mobility International USA, 2002

  Do women and girls with disabilities participate in international development processes? What data is collected on their involvement? This survey of 165 United States-based international development organisations shows that 93 percent of respondent organisations do not know the extent of participation of women and girls with disabilities in their programmes due to insufficient data.
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  Strengthening Women's Rights Organisations through Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Gender, Disability and Development Institute

  2006

  How can women's organisations include women with disabilities in all areas of their work? According to this article, inclusion is easy. Based on information gathered at Mobility International (MI) USA's Gender, Disability and Development Institute (GDDI), this paper recommends that organisations start with MIUSA's 'Checklist for Inclusion' which provides a simple self-assessment guide.
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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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  GenderStats on Myanmar

  World Bank, 2004

  Myanmar has a population of over 50,000, of which over 50.3 percent are women. Life expectancy is 64 years of age for women compared to 58 for men. Yet only 86.4 percent of women are literate compared to 93.9 percent of men. These are some of the statistics available from GenderStats, an electronic database of gender statistics hosted by the World Bank.
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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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  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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  Women and food crises: how US food aid policies can better support their struggles

  ActionAid International, 2007

  Women are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately affected by hunger, yet their important role in providing solutions is often overlooked.
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  Participation and Leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean: Gender Indicators

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1999

  The Beijing Platform for Action stipulates that countries are obliged to monitor and evaluate progress in improving the representation and participation of women at all levels of decision-making, both inside and outside of government.
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  Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: A Critical Analysis of the Third Millennium Development Goal

  Oxfam, 2005

  While each of the three indicators used to measure progress towards the Third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) has the potential to bring about positive changes in women's lives, they also have limits as pathways to women's empowerment.

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