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Promoting gender equity in politics through affirmative action measures: Latin American gender quotas
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013Since 1991, fourteen Latin American countries have implemented gender quotas. These have enabled the region to establish one of the highest levels of women’s representation in political decision-making structures around the world.DocumentMitigation action implementation: Understanding variables that affect policy implementation
Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios, 2013This paper considers whether the implementation of mitigation action (MA) policy in developing countries would be subject to similar impediments as other (non-mitigation related) public policy interventions. It focuses on case studies from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru.DocumentAccess to justice for survivors of sexual violence in conflicts: three Latin American approaches
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013What progress has been achieved in Latin America in the struggle for justice for women victims of sexual violence in contexts of conflict? In what ways have judicial institutions and grassroots organisations in Latin America learned from experiences in other regions of the world? What are the key features of more integral approaches to access to justice?DocumentGender equality and women’s rights in the CLOC-Via Campesina movement
BRIDGE, 2013What strategies have women leaders in the CLOC-Via Campesina movement used to integrate gender equality into the movement’s external work and internal dynamics?DocumentTrafficking in persons report 2013
US Department of State, 2013Ending modern slavery must remain a foreign policy priority. This Report takes an unflinching view at human trafficking around the world, what governments are doing, and what they are failing to do.DocumentThe piquetera/o movement of Argentina
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2008Argentina’s Piquetero/a Movement originates from the unemployed worker protests, usually blocking highways and roads, during the 1990s financial crisis. The women of the movement, played a variety of crucial roles. The Piquetero/a Movement reached its height during the crisis of 2001 and 2002.DocumentThe relevance of the feminist encuentro for Latin American feminist movements
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011In the build up to the 2011 12th Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Gathering (EFLAC or Encuentro), AWID’s Friday File interviewed Virgina Vargas about the history of the Encuentros and the importance of reaching beyond a regional focus.DocumentPopulation dynamics in the post - 2015 development agenda: report of the Global Thematic Consultation on Population Dynamics
International Organization for Migration, 2013Mega population trends at the national and global levels – continued rapid population growth, population ageing, urbanisation and migration – not only frame the entire development debate, they demand a reconsideration and re-conceptualisation of what will be the main challenges for the post - 2015 development agenda.Document2013 World Population Data Sheet
Population Reference Bureau, 2013The 2013 Data Sheet provides detailed information on 20 population, health, and environment indicators for more than 200 countries, and has a special focus on wealth and income inequality. The data sheet is accompanied by an interacticve World Map and inforgraphic.Details highlighted include:DocumentGetting smart and scaling up: responding to the impact of organized crime on governance in developing countries
Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2013The development landscape is rapidly changing and new centres of economic dynamism are emerging. At the same time, organized criminal activity, including illicit trafficking and financial flows, is increasing in these same settings, often fuelling tension or violence among elites or other groups vying for control of illicit markets.Pages