Search
Searching with a thematic focus on
Showing 731-740 of 953 results
Pages
- Document
Leading to Choices: A Multimedia Curriculum for Leadership Learning
2003This is a multimedia training package designed to empower women to participate as leaders in the decision-making processes that impact on their lives. The curriculum is based on a concept of participatory leadership that enables women and men to develop skills to prevent conflict, share power, and build coalitions to promote human rights, social justice, and peace.DocumentWomen Hold Up Half the Sky
2003This series of eight training videos which accompanies the above workbook is for learning about the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its relevance to women's daily lives. These short narrative dramas showing the effects of patriarchy on women and girls are based on real life stories.DocumentPassport to Dignity
2003To address women's disadvantage and devise solutions, there is a need to develop a comprehensive systemic analysis of the situation of women which looks at the causes and structures of disadvantage. The human rights framework can provide the tools to do this. It can identify how and where oppressive systems work and help to dismantle them.DocumentGender in Practice: Drawing Lessons from the Experiences in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific
2001This bulletin shows women's rights campaigners some of the ways in which they can effectively influence policy arenas. This is a collection of tools, guidelines and lessons emerging from a two-year WIDE project on implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.DocumentExpandir el Concepto de la Ciudadania de las Mujeres: la Vision de Pueblo y la Representaci¢n de las Mujeres Mapuche en Sernam? (?Expanding the Concept of Women's Citizenship: the People's Vision and the Representation of Mapuche Women)
2000What difficulties do indigenous women's groups face in lobbying for gender equality?DocumentHuman Rights, Advocacy, and the Empowerment of Women: An Education and Action Project in the Yugoslav Successor States?
Centre for Development and Population Activities, 1999In Croatia widespread ethnic conflict has led to the large scale erosion of human rights, including women's rights. In this context, Be Active, Be Emancipated - Budi aktivna, Budi emancipirana, or B.a.B.e. - was set up to foster structural change towards ensuring women's full participation in society. B.a.B.e.DocumentLegislative Advocacy for Women's Rights: Training Candidates for Local Elections in Cotabato, Philippines
Centre for Legislative Development, 1999This legislative advocacy project was set up in Cotabato, where a large Muslim population had only recently started to become involved in political processes. The project's aim was to increase women's involvement in local government at this critical moment. Participants included farmers, health workers and school teachers, half of whom had no history of involvement in political activities.DocumentPaving the Way to Justice: The Experience of Nagorik Uddyog (NU)
One World Action, 2003Enforcing access to justice can be a fundamental and practical way of helping citizens to secure their rights and participation. Women and minority groups are notoriously excluded from legal recourse in formal channels due to both physical constraints - such as cost and location - and social factors like education, confidence and language.DocumentReport on Legal Aid and Self Governance for Women in Community Alliance Building
BRIDGE, 2001Development projects that enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship.DocumentPolicy Advocacy: The Case of Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA)
BRIDGE, 2000The problem of gender-based violence is significant in Tanzania, and is increasing. The right of women to live free from such violence and their right to protection is fundamental to their citizenship - and the ways in which such protection is fought for is a demonstration of gendered citizenship practice.Pages
