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  Gendered implications of tax reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Jamaica

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

  In the context of Latin American and Caribbean countries, this paper proposes that the most effective means for reducing class- and gender-based poverty and inequality is citizenship-based entitlements to basic (i.e.
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  Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper proposes a framework for measuring empowerment (ME) comprising three core concepts: agency, opportunity structure, and degree of empowerment. In this regard, it defines empowerment as a person’s capacity to transform choices into desired actions and outcomes.
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  Women & elections: guide to promoting the participation of women in elections

  Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, 2004

  This paper is based on the concept that democratic elections are key to peace-building in post-conflict situations, and that women’s participation is vital to ensuring sustainable democracy.
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  From rhetoric to reality: Afghan women on the agenda for peace

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2005

  This paper examines the effectiveness of the international community’s commitment to women’s rights and provides an overview of women’s initiatives and activities in Afghanistan.
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  Enlisting the armed forces to protect reproductive health and rights: lessons learned from nine countries

  United Nations Population Fund, 2003

  This paper is a comparative study of country experiences across regions, undertaken as part of a UNFPA interregional project ‘Improving Gender Perspective, Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention through Stronger Partnership with the Military.’ Its purpose is to inform future programming by identifying effective approaches for working with men in the uniformed services in reproductive and sexu
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  Focus on human rights and gender justice: linking the Millennium Development Goals with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Beijing Platform for Action

  United Nations [UN] Non-Governmental Liaison Service, 2005

  This paper aims at showing the interlinkages between the CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to emphasise that the MDGs must be developed further from the perspective of human rights, poverty eradication and the empowerment of women.The paper begins with a critical examination of CEDAW, the BFPA, and the MDGs.
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  PRSPs in Africa: parliaments and economic policy performance

  Parliamentary Centre, Canada, 2005

  Reporting on a review of four countries Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (Ghana, Niger, Tanzania and Malawi) this paper looks at the emerging strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of national PRSPs.
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  Women, ICTs and rural development

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The importance of gender issues in agricultural development is now well-recognised. Similarly, uses for new information and communication technologies (ICTs) for agriculturalists have begun to attract significant interest. However, the intersection where gender issues meet ICTs in agriculture has been little explored.
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  Women belonging to minority groups: facing multiple disadvantages?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Women are discriminated against in many ways but if a woman is also a member of a minority or indigenous community, she faces multiple disadvantages. Despite some efforts, neither gender equality nor minority and indigenous rights are integral to international law or human rights. Ignoring this discrimination leads to a failure in recognising the many ways women are ill-treated.
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  Gender-based violence tools manual for assessment, program design, monitoring and evaluation

  Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003

  This manual is aimed at improving international and local capacity to address gender-based violence (GBV) in refugee, internally displaced, and post-conflict settings.

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