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    Millennium Development Goals: Gender Factsheet

    Department for International Development, UK, 2004
    This factsheet provides an overview of how the Department for International Development, UK (DFID) is working to address Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3, 'Promote gender equality and empower women'.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in UK Development Cooperation

    Network Women in Development Europe, 2004
    This briefing note provides an overview and critique of gender mainstreaming policy and practice within the Department for International Development, UK (DFID), focusing specifically on gender mainstreaming in trade policy.
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    CEDAW Fourth Periodic Report of States Parties: United Kingdom

    1999
    This is the UK's fourth report to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
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    Aruna Roy of MKSS on Demanding Accountability through the Right to Information in India

    2004
    The NGO Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS - the Workers' and Farmers' Power Association) in Rajasthan, India, has sparked off a nation-wide right-to-information campaign. This interview with Aruna Roy, one of its founding activists, explores how MKSS demands accountability through the right to information, serving both the needs of lower caste and class women and men.
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    Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Voice and Accountability

    Department for International Development, UK, 2005
    The concepts of voice and accountability form the core values of good governance - of ensuring that citizens have a voice in decisions made about their lives and that states and other actors hear those voices and respond to them.
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    Women's Rights in the Arab World

    2004
    This working paper offers an overview of the legal status of women in select Arab countries. It addresses the various rights of women: when entering marriage; within marriage; to divorce; maintenance after dissolution of marriage; custody; and the transfer of citizenship to children. The paper begins by explaining Islamic law, its main sources and the status of women living under it.
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    Gendered Analysis of the Working for Water Programme: A Case Study of the Tsitsikama Working for Water Programme

    2005
    The Working for Water (WfW) programme is one of the Expanded Public Works Programmes (EPWP) housed within the South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. As both the EPWP and WfW programme focus strongly on the employment of women, this paper conducts a gender analysis of the WfW project.
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    Institutional Change and Accountability: Notes on a Strategy

    2003
    Why is accountability to women important in relation to human security? In order for organisations to achieve true human security they need to redress gender inequity and support women's rights. To realise women's rights, they must ensure the active participation of women and also work on changing institutions (i.e. families, communities, markets and the state).
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    What's Beijing got to do with me? Women 2000: Women & Equality

    2001
    What is the United Nations doing for women in the UK? Is the Beijing Platform for Action relevant to UK women? The Platform for Action is a set of promises made during the 1995 United Nations Women's Conference by governments all over the world in an effort to improve women's status.
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    Changing World, Changing Lives

    2003
    How have women progressed towards equality in the UK? This document, produced by the Women and Equality Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry, is a summary of the UK's fifth periodic report on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), covering the period 1999 to 2003.

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