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  Briefing Note on Women's Rights and the ?Coherence Panel? in the UN Reform Process

  2006

  Women's organisations want to contribute to the United Nations (UN) reform process because present UN structures and systems are not delivering on equality issues. This briefing document outlines the changes suggested by women's organisations to the UN system and presents the response of the UN Secretary-General to these suggestions.
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  Gender Equality Now or Never: A New UN Agency for Women

  Office of the UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, 2006

  How must the United Nations (UN) change in order to deliver better outcomes for women? The UN's current mix of low-level departments, divisions and committees working on gender has been inadequate in pushing the gender equality agenda forward.
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  Gender Equality & United Nations Reform: A Resource Packet

  2007

  How did women's organisations and networks respond to the new gender equality architecture proposed by the United Nations (UN) High-Level Panel on UN System-Wide Coherence? What actions are women's groups taking? This resource pack outlines the UN's recommendations, gives information on the UN processes and provides statements of response from women's groups in South Asia, Africa and elsewhere.
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  Recommendations Contained in the Report of the High-level Panel on United Nations System-Wide Coherence in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Environment

  United Nations, 2007

  In November 2006, the United Nations (UN) published 'Delivering As One', a report examining how the UN can achieve greater coherence through changes in the its structures and systems. In this six-page document, the new UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, responds to the report's suggestions. He states his full agreement with the need for a stronger and more dynamic gender architecture.
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  Women, girls, boys and men, different needs - equal opportunities

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2006

  When a disaster hits or a conflict erupts, humanitarian actors move quickly to save lives, meet basic needs and protect survivors. In this rush, the appeal to ?pay attention to gender issues? often falls on deaf ears and may seem irrelevant. This handbook argues that it is not!
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  Mainstreaming Men in Work Towards Gender Equity

  XY Online, 2005

  The importance of engaging and integrating men into work and policy on gender issues is increasingly recognised. Men have roles in maintaining and fostering gender equality. More is also known about the detrimental effects of male exclusion and positive effects of male inclusion.
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  Linking Livelihoods and Gender Analysis for Achieving Gender Transformative Change

  2006

  While natural resource programmes, and the dominant frameworks they adopt (such as the Harvard Framework), have often incorporated collection and analysis of data around roles and access and control over assets, they have largely failed to adopt broader political goals of gender equality.
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  Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

  Zed Books Limited, 2007

  This collection of essays from leading feminist thinkers from the North and South explores the contested relationship between 'feminisms' and development, and considers the challenges for reasserting feminist engagement with development as a political project.
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  The Yogyakarta Principles: Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

  Yogyakarta Principles, 2007

  The Yogyakarta Principles are a set of principles on the application of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity.
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  Masculinities: Male Roles and Male Involvement in the Promotion of Gender Equality: A Resource Packet

  2005

  Women and men experience conflict, flight and displacement differently. Yet organisations assisting displaced persons often fail to consider gender relations and inequalities. Without a clear gender focus, outside agencies fail to capitalise on opportunities to support more equal gender relations in the aftermath of conflict or displacement, and may even reinforce inequalities.

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