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  Millennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims.
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  Sexual Orientation and Zimbabwe's New Constitution: A Case for Inclusion

  Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, 1999

  Why is there a need for development to talk about sexual orientation? All over the world lesbians and gay men suffer sexual identity-based discrimination in legal, social and cultural arenas. The role of law in upholding 'morality' has significant consequences in the case of sexuality when legislation can impinge on the right to be free from discrimination.
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  UNSC Resolution 1325: South Asian Women's Perspectives

  International Alert, 2003

  The perspectives of South Asian women on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 are the focus of this regional consultation launched by the Gender and Peacebuilding Programme of International Alert. This programme was established to recognise the diversity of women's experiences during war and conflict, and support their potential to contribute to peacebuilding and reconstruction.
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  Gender and Development: An Information Kit

  2000

  This information kit is a tool for gender and development specialists/ consultants working in Egypt. It was produced by the Gender and Development (GAD) Sub-Group, the body responsible for coordinating and sharing information between the UN, bilateral donor and Egyptian NGOs on gender initiatives in Egypt. The kit is broken down into five booklets.
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  The Integration of Women's Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership/L'integration des Droits des Femmes dans le Partenariat Euro-Mediterraneen

  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2003

  The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, launched in 1995, provides a framework for political, economic and social relations between the 12 partners of the southern Mediterranean and 15 European Union member states. This report explores the dynamics that hinder and promote women's rights within this partnership and in the Middle East and North Africa.
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  BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 13: Gender and Armed Conflict

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  Conventional understandings of war and its aftermath overlook the impact on gender relations. Gender inequality pre-dates and is often exacerbated by conflict. But this does not mean that women are always victims and men only perpetrators. Men also suffer from torture and violence.
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  Gender and Armed Conflict: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This collection of resources on gender and armed conflict sheds light on how gender inequality intersects with armed conflict and its aftermath, resulting in gender-specific disadvantage that is often overlooked.
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  Gender and Armed Conflict: Overview Report

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  In this report, which forms part of the Cutting Edge Pack on gender and armed conflict, the impact of armed conflict on gender relations, and the distinct ways that both women and men are affected, is explored. It highlights the gender-specific disadvantages experienced by women and men that are denied by conventional interpretations of armed conflict and post-conflict reconstruction processes.
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  Gender and Armed Conflict Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  Mainstream approaches to conflict and reconstruction fail to recognise how armed conflict exacerbates gender inequality. This pack explores the impact of armed conflict on gender relations, analysing the distinct ways that both women and men are affected.
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  Mainstreaming gender?

  Oxfam, 2003

  This issue of Links summarises experiences shared and lessons learned at "Gender Mainstreaming Leadership Workshop" held in Scotland for Oxfam staff. The workshop concluded that mainstreaming gender is particularly tough because it requires not just skills and experience, but also great commitment to change attitudes and beliefs, and to overcome prejudices. The workshop had two main outcomes.

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