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  Fifth Periodic CEDAW Report of States Parties - Russian Federation

  1999

  This is Russia's fifth periodic report to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It outlines the measures taken by the Russian Federation to combat discrimination against women between 1994 and 1998.
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  We Elect them - They Select Us: Gender Analysis of Parliamentary and Presidential Elections in Russia: 2003-2004

  Consortium of Women's Non-governmental Associations, 2004

  The Consortium of Women's Non-governmental Associations (CWNA) undertook a gender analysis of the 2003 and 2004 Russian Federation parliamentary and presidential elections. Beforehand, gender inequalities were evident in the extremely low level of women in leading positions in the state legislative, executive and judicial bodies.
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  Investing in people: national progress in implementing the ICPD programme of action 1994-2004

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Almost all countries report having taken at least one policy, legislative or administrative action to protect the rights of girls and women and promote women's empowerment since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994.
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  Initial Reports of State Parties - Bolivia

  1991

  This is the Bolivian government's first and only report to the United Nations (UN) Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It outlines Bolivia's laws which protect women's rights, arranged sequentially in response to each article of the CEDAW.
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  Gender Human Development Report in Bolivia 2003

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  Bolivia's first human development report on gender seeks to describe women in Bolivia as active agents rather than beneficiaries of aid. The focus is therefore on the need to enhance women's political capacity and ability to participate in policy deliberations.
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  The Principle of Accountability

  Women's Human Right's Net, 2004

  Accountability mechanisms can provide a way of institutionalising responsibility for addressing women's human rights violations, and point to ways forward in terms of process. Accountability has played an important role in the development of human rights law over the past decade.
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  Why Should we Care about Unpaid Care Work?

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  The failure of macroeconomic policies to acknowledge unpaid care work - such as housework, cooking, and caring for children, older people, and sick or disabled people - has a significant impact on women's lives. How can we ensure that unpaid care work is visible and accounted for in macro- and micro-level policy-making?
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  GENIA Toolkit For Promoting Gender Equality in Education

  2004

  How can education in Asia become more gender sensitive? The GENIA toolkit provides a collection of practical resources for gender focal points in Asian Ministries of Education (MoE). It aims to build the technical capacity of gender focal points to mainstream gender at national and regional levels.
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  Gender, Citizenship and Nationality Training Pack

  2003

  This training pack is based on learning from various field training initiatives as well as case studies drawn from CRTD's empirical research. The objectives of the pack are to develop a greater understanding of the concepts and applications of gender, citizenship and nationality; and to generate discussion about how individuals, particularly women, are excluded from citizen rights.
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  Research Report on Women Street Vendors in Lahore

  Commitee for Asian Women, 2003

  There are two main barriers to improving the conditions of women street vendors - a lack of understanding of their current status and a lack of political commitment to improve conditions.

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