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  A global alliance against forced labour

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  What is ?forced labour? and how is it defined in international law? This report outlines the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) perspective on forced labour - a situation where work or service is exacted under the menace of a penalty, and is undertaken involuntarily.
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  State of the world's mothers 2005: the power and promise of girls’ education

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  Although total primary school enrolment rates have recently risen in every region of the developing world, there is still a significant gender education gap. Of 650 million children of primary school age in the world, 103 million do not attend school, and the majority of them are girls. This progress report focuses on girls' education.
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  UNHCR’s age and gender mainstreaming pilot project 2004: synthesis report

  Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2005

  Following three independent evaluations on refugee women and children and the role of community services, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched an age and gender mainstreaming pilot project in early 2004. To date, country assessments followed by capacity building and planning workshops have been conducted in fourteen countries.
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  Working from within: culturally sensitive approaches in UNFPA programming

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Changing attitudes, behaviours and laws - especially around gender relations - has proved to be a complex undertaking which demands a great deal of sensitivity to local social and cultural dynamics.
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  Summary of the Online Discussions Held in Preparation for the 10 Year Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Platform for Action in the 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005

  Between November 2004 and February 2005 WomenWatch hosted a series of 11 online discussions, organised and moderated by the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE). The objective was to reach out to those who would be unable to attend the 2005 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) session. Each discussion was sponsored by a different UN agency.
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  Measures Taken and Progress Achieved in the Follow-up to and Implementation of the FWCW and to the 23rd Special Session of the General Assembly

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2004

  What efforts have been made by the United Nations (UN) system to support the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) at the national level? This review, based on inputs from UN entities, concludes that these entities have made substantial progress in their efforts to support implementation.
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  Review of the Implementation of the BPfA Outcome Documents of the Special Session of the General Assembly: Report of the SG

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2004

  Questionnaire responses from Member States provide the basis for this United Nations ten-year-on review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).
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  Declaration adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its Forty-ninth Session

  United Nations, 2005

  To mark the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, Government representatives gathered in New York at the Forty-ninth session of the CSW (28 February - 11 March 2005). This short Declaration was adopted by the Commission. It reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (PfA) and welcomes the progress made so far towards achieving gender equality.
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  Women2000 and Beyond: Making Risky Environments Safer: Women Building Sustainable and Disaster-Resilient Environments

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2004

  When women and men confront natural or environmental disasters such as forest fires, droughts, earthquake and volcanic eruption, their responses tend to mirror their role and position in society.
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  Gender, Conflict and Development

  World Bank, 2005

  This book highlights the gender dimensions of conflict, organised around major relevant themes such as female combatants, sexual violence, formal and informal peace processes, the legal framework, work, the rehabilitation of social services and community-driven development.

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