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  Globalising women's rights: confronting unequal development between the UN rights framework and the WTO trade agreements

  Women in Development Europe, 2004

  This paper is a report of WIDE’s annual conference from 2004, held at the Gustav-Stresemann-Institute, in Bonn from 21-22 May. The report includes summaries of the main seminars held.
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  Afghanistan: "No one listens to us and no one treats us as human beings": justice denied to women

  2003

  This paper explores rhetorical committments to women's rights in Afghanistan, and examines how women's rights in Afghanistan became an issue of global concern with the US-led incursion into Afghanistan.
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  Women's political participation and good governance: 21st century challenges

  United Nations Development Programme, 2000

  Launched during the General Assembly Special Session on Beijing +5, this paper contains studies illustrating that despite substantial obstacles, women decision makers in developing countries have already begun to put a distinctive stamp on governance mechanisms, institutions and broader political debates.
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  Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

  Millennium Project, 2005

  Investing in development is the final report of the UN Millennium Project. It presents the findings and recommendations of the project, which will be reported directly to the UN Secretary-General and the Administrator of the UNDP.The report makes ten key recommendations:developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet the MDG targets for 2015.
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  Domestic, regional, and international protection of Nigerian women against discrimination: constraints and possiblities

  African Studies Quarterly, 2002

  This paper approaches questions concerning human rights and discrimination against women from a perspective that tries to divorce itself from what the author views as implicit Western biases in prevailing scholarship.
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  A gender perspective on water resources and sanitation

  Commission on Sustainable Development, United Nations [UN], 2004

  This paper is based on the premise that in the next generation, it will be critical to mainstream gender perspectives into the planning process to ensure that the specific needs and concerns of women and men from all social groups are taken into account in development, use and management of water resources and sanitation.
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  Gender, the Millennium Development Goals, and human rights in the context of the 2005 review processes

  Choike, 2004

  This paper takes advantage of the 2005 reviews of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) and the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to think about the opportunities offered by these coinciding reviews.
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  Women, the state, and the travails of decentralising the Nigerian Federation

  West Africa Review, 2000

  In this essay focusing on Southern Nigeria, the author claims that women have been deliberately and consciously excluded from political participation.
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  Gender mainstreaming in disaster reduction

  United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2002

  This paper examines the gender dynamics of disasters, and advocates gender sensitive planning and programming to prevent and respond to disasters. The authors propose that a balanced and equal participation of both women and men in formulating and implementing policies and programmes will facilitating utilising the maximum talent available.
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  Fear and want: obstacles to human security

  Social Watch, 2004

  Acknowledging that it is impossibe to answer many specific questions on current events, this report aims to make its own contribution to the debate by examining which grassroots organisations around the world are engaged in the frontline of the battle against poverty and discrimination.

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