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  Women, political parties and social movements in South Asia

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  This UNRISD occasional paper - addressing issues regarding women, parties and movements in South Asia - was written for the preparation of the report, ‘Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world’.
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  Race, Gender and Class: Why Have a Group of Caribbean Women Spoken out against the Coup in Haiti?

  2004

  In this interview, Peggy Antrobus, former general coordinator of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), offers her thoughts on the situation in Haiti from a gender perspective. In particular, she argues that poverty in Haiti cannot be analysed or understood outside the context of gender, race and class.
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  UNIFEM in Haiti: Supporting Gender Justice, Development and Peace

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  How can an international agency like the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) support local efforts towards gender equity, development and peace? This documents analyses the situation of women in Haiti, where women suffer abuse and discrimination in the economy, education and the political sphere.
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  Rewinding History: The Rights of Haitian Women

  PeaceWomen: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 2005

  The Let Haiti Live Women's Rights Delegation, composed of women from various countries and local activists working on women's human rights, carried out a series of interviews and meetings with activists, national agencies, grassroots and community organisations in Haiti to assess the situation of women in the country.
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  Partnerships for Gender Equality: The Role of Multilateral and Bilateral Agencies in Africa

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  The Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) has served as a road map for women's equality and empowerment.
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  Equality and Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Guide to Implementation and Monitoring Under the ICESCR

  International Women's Rights Action Watch, 2004

  The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) states that economic, social and cultural rights are critical to the survival and development of human potential. By asserting that all human rights are to be enjoyed without discrimination on the basis of sex, it also makes such rights central to the implementation of women's human rights.
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  Human rights, formalisation and women’s land rights in southern and eastern Africa

  Institute of Women's Law, University of Oslo, 2005

  How can the abstract principles of the human rights-based approach (HRBA) be translated into practical strategies to improve women's ownership and access to land? In Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Kenya, despite changes in national law and policy aiming to improve women's land tenure, none of the land reforms meet human rights standards.
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  CEDAW Report for the Federal Republic of Yugloslavia, 1998

  United Nations, 1998

  Following the conflict in the Balkans in the 1990s, the major problems facing the people of Serbia and Montenegro are the refugee crisis and the effects of violence against women that was endemic during and after the conflict. This government report to CEDAW points to the difficulties in upholding CEDAW in times of conflict.
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  Annotated CEDAW bibliography

  International Women's Rights Project, 2004

  This bibliography is a compilation of resources relating to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The list is organised by Convention article and at the beginning of each section the relevant part of the Convention is cited.
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  Beijing +10 Resources: Tracking What Has Happened

  2004

  This is an annotated bibliography of resources produced for or relevant to Beijing + 10. The collection begins with materials from United Nations (UN) agencies with a number from the regional Economic Commissions including background papers and reports from regional conferences and review meetings held in preparation for Beijing +10.

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