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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Egypt

  United Nations, 2000

  This submission by the government of Egypt to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) combines the fourth and fifth periodic reports, covering the period 1994 to 1998. It highlights the important role women have played in the country's development processes.
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  Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism, and Coalition Politics

  2003

  Egypt's Personal Status Law (PSL) coalition, made up of activists, lawyers, government officials, NGO leaders, legislators, and scholars, has been lobbying for 15 years for changes to the personal status laws that govern marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance.
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  Kidnapping Brides in Kyrgyzstan: Prescriptive Human Rights Measures

  Human Rights Tribune, 2000

  Bride kidnapping has been revived as an authentic Kyrgyz tradition, resulting in the large-scale violation of women's rights in the name of preserving Kyrgyz 'culture'. This practice was outlawed during Soviet rule and is technically still illegal under the Kyrgyz's Criminal Code.
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  Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research

  1998

  How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research.
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  Steps for Effective Advocacy

  2003

  How can NGOs work to ensure that governments are implementing international law to protect women's rights? International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific have released this practical guide for NGOs who wish to use the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to hold their governments accountable for upholding and enforcing women's rights.
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  Briefing Notes on: Gender Perspectives on Disarmament

  Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, 2001

  This collection of briefing notes was launched by the United Nations (UN) Department for Disarmament Affairs (DDA), in collaboration with the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women (OSAGI). The notes are part of a broader project designed to make disarmament more effective.
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  Gender and the Peacekeeping Military: A View from Bosnian Women's Organisations

  Lawrence and Wishart, 2002

  What are the consequences for the work of women's NGOs in regions that host armed international peacekeepers? This chapter draws out observations and potential policy lessons from a study conducted with eight women's organisations located in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Sprska.
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  Contested Terrain: Oxfam, Gender, and the Aftermath of War

  Oxfam, 2001

  The topic of gender relations in the context of conflict covers highly sensitive terrain, not only within the war-torn society, but for intervening institutions. Like other international humanitarian agencies, Oxfam Great Britain (GB) has faced difficult questions about whether its presence has sometimes done more harm than good.
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  How to Guide: [Sexual and Gender-Based Violence] SGV Programme Monitoring and Evaluation

  Health and Community Development Section, 2000

  Programmes that tackle sexual and gender-based violence (SGV) in refugee settings need to take into account a number of issues and problems unique to this context. Some of the main problems arise from the need to bring together many diverse actors who will work on the same case, such as mental and physical health care workers, the police, government workers and legal advisers/officers.
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  Gender in Practice: A Tool-kit for Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and its Partners

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2003

  This kit does not claim to provide all the answers, but does offer key questions to ask on gender, and tools which can be adapted to different situations. While the pack targets SDC and partners, it is also useful to gender mainstreaming in other organisations.

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