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  International Feminism and the Women's Movement in Egypt, 1904-1923 A Reappraisal of Categories and Legacies

  2003

  How have Egyptian feminists promoted women's rights? This paper looks at the Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU) in the fight for women's right to vote in Egypt in the early twentieth century. The EFU had much in common with the international women's movement then mobilising around women's right to vote.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Egypt

  United Nations, 2000

  This submission by the government of Egypt to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) combines the fourth and fifth periodic reports, covering the period 1994 to 1998. It highlights the important role women have played in the country's development processes.
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  Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism, and Coalition Politics

  2003

  Egypt's Personal Status Law (PSL) coalition, made up of activists, lawyers, government officials, NGO leaders, legislators, and scholars, has been lobbying for 15 years for changes to the personal status laws that govern marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance.
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  Sexual Orientation and Zimbabwe's New Constitution: A Case for Inclusion

  Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, 1999

  Why is there a need for development to talk about sexual orientation? All over the world lesbians and gay men suffer sexual identity-based discrimination in legal, social and cultural arenas. The role of law in upholding 'morality' has significant consequences in the case of sexuality when legislation can impinge on the right to be free from discrimination.
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  The Integration of Women's Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership/L'integration des Droits des Femmes dans le Partenariat Euro-Mediterraneen

  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2003

  The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, launched in 1995, provides a framework for political, economic and social relations between the 12 partners of the southern Mediterranean and 15 European Union member states. This report explores the dynamics that hinder and promote women's rights within this partnership and in the Middle East and North Africa.
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  A New Weave of Power, People and Politics, The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation

  World Neighbours, 2002

  How can we address gender inequality and exclusion through promotion of political participation and citizenship? Advocacy around legislation and policy-making, and around values and behaviour, can challenge systems that exclude women and other disadvantaged groups.
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  Gendered Budget Work in the Americas: Selected Country Experiences

  University of Texas, 2002

  Integrating gender into budgetary debate can yield better information and analysis of a budget's impacts. It can also serve as a tool to advocate for more equitable public policies. Researchers and advocates in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chile have attempted to influence the debate around policy priorities and to assess the impact of government spending on women and girls, men and boys.
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  Some Research Gaps in Gender Budget Work from an Advocacy Perspective

  BRIDGE, 2002

  Gender Budget Initiatives can be an important tool for claiming resources, however are they restricted to research and policy papers? This paper takes a look at gender budget work from an advocacy perspective - stating that budgets are nine parts politics and one part information.
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  What's Behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the Budget Process

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  Can budget processes be used to claim rights and call governments to account? Who has the power to determine who gets what budget resources? Whilst often considered merely technical tools, budgets are in fact political processes. Starting from this basis, the authors show how a rights-based approach can strengthen pro-poor and gender-sensitive outcomes from public expenditure management.
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  Budgets as if People Mattered: Democratising Macroeconomic Policies

  United Nations Development Programme, 2000

  How can macroeconomic policy frameworks be democratised to take into account the voices and interests of women and the poor? In most countries, ordinary citizens, particularly poor women and men, do not have a say in determining how public revenues are collected and spent. An alternative is people-centred budgeting.

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