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    Effective Practices in Sheltering Women. Leaving Violence in Intimate Relationships

    World Young Women's Christian Association, 2006
    What do Canadian women want from emergency shelters and how can shelter services be improved? This research documents the journey of 368 abused women as they entered and left emergency shelters in ten locations across Canada. The paper describes the nature of partner abuse, identifies the strategies that women adopted, and highlights what the women needed most from emergency shelters.
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    Disentangling The Web of Women's Poverty and Exclusion

    Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    The Canadian Government boasts eight years of budget surpluses but still there are increasing numbers of people living in poverty.
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    CIDA's Policy on Gender Equality

    Canadian International Development Agency, 1999
    How does the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) support the goal of gender equality as part of its strategy to achieve sustainable development? This paper describes CIDA's gender equality policy and outlines its goals, objectives and strategies.
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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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    Background Note on the UN Reform Process and New Women's Architecture in the UN, Plus Accountability to Women's Rights in Canada

    Canadian Committee on Women and the UN Reform, 2006
    This paper provides the background to the call from women's organisations for a strong, independent body on gender equality and women's rights at the United Nations (UN). Reflecting the lack of coherent strategies on gender equality at the UN, this paper also suggests that the Canadian Government improves its approach to gender equality issues.
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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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    PGM Summary Statistics on the Gender Situation in Cambodia (As of July 2005)

    Japan International Cooperation Agency, 2005
    How do women and men fare differently in Cambodia? This leaflet gives a brief 'at-a-glance' statistical summary of disparities between men and women in Cambodia.
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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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