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    Victims and heroes: Nuba women struggle in two years of war

    Arry Organisation for Human Rights, 2013
    In a collaborative effort between the Arry Organisation for Human Rights, and Nuba Women Activists, researchers for this paper worked at considerable risk to conduct interviews with women activists, and give voice to the great hardship of women in the ongoing armed conflict in the Nuba mountains of Sudan.
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    Recommendations to the Presidency, the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Transitional Justice and National Reconciliation concerning the integration of gender issues and perspective within transitional justice mechanisms.

    Nazra for Feminist Studies, 2013
    In June of 2013, masses of Egyptian people once again took to the streets to demand the ouster of the President, this time the Muslim Brotherhood's Muhammed Morsi. Having taken control of the presidency, the armed forces appointed Judge Muhammad Amin al-Mahdi as Minister of Transitional Justice and National Reconciliation as part of a ten-step reconciliation roadmap.
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    Gender and social movements In Brief bulletin

    BRIDGE, 2013
    Social movements worldwide are a critical force for progressive social transformation, and have proven effective in generating change at levels that policy, law and development interventions alone have not achieved. Women’s rights activists and feminists globally have been active both in building women’s movements and participating in other progressive social movements.
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    Gender and social movements overview report

    BRIDGE, 2013
    Across the world there is an active, mass-based demand for an end to gendered injustice in all domains of our social, economic, political and cultural lives. Social movements – led by feminist, women’s and gender justice activists and movements – have been pivotal in demanding, making and sustaining these changes.
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    Till death do us part

    Al Jazeera, 2011
    Aside from the Vatican City, The Philippines is the only country where Catholic couples cannot be granted a divorce. This episode of Al-Jazeera's 101 Look East series concerns recent efforts by the Gabriela Women's Party to reintroduce a long-dormant bill enabling married Catholics to divorce in the Philippines.
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    Video - Disability Rights and Palestinian Women: Ola Abualghaib (Stars of Hope Society)

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2012
    Disabilities should no longer be seen as preventing women from contributing to the community. That is the concluding remark in this video with Ola Abualghaib, founder and chairwoman of the Ramallah-based Stars of Hope Society - a national organisation run by and for women with disabilities.
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    Women with disabilities

    WomenWatch, UN, 2010
    This WomenWatch special feature highlights women with disabilities. It serves as a portal to resources and the work of the United Nations (UN) in this area. Information on the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (2006) is presented, including a section with links to information related to the Convention’s article on women with disabilities.
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    Literature review: The efficacy of women’s social movements to include chronically poor women and give voice to their demands

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
    Social movements are known to struggle to include, or be representative of, chronically poor women.
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    Bringing Rights to Bear: An Advocate’s Guide to the Work of the UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive and Sexual Rights

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2003
    Six key human rights treaties provide the legal foundation for the international community's commitment to human rights: the Convention on Torture; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); the Convention against Racial Discrimination; the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Covenant; the Children's Rights Convention; and the Civil and Political Right
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    Budgeting for women’s rights: monitoring government budgets for compliance with CEDAW

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006
    This report adds a landmark to the discourse on the link between human rights standards and government budgets. It elaborates on how budgets and budget policy making processes can be monitored for compliance with human rights standards, in particular with the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

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