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  Achievements, gaps and challenges in linking the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals: report of the expert group meeting

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

  Independent experts were brought together by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) in Azerbaijan (7-10 February 2005) to identify strategic entry-points in the 2005 review processes to link the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  Excitement about new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is tempered by long-standing problems of gender inequality in development processes. In most developing countries, women make up the majority of the population working in agriculture, but they are marginalised with respect to access to ICTs for economic and social empowerment.
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  Beijing Betrayed: Women Worldwide Report that Governments Have Failed to Turn the Platform into Action

  2005

  Despite policy gains at Beijing, and despite a decade-worth of efforts to use the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) to achieve legal and policy changes to protect and advance women's rights at the national level, many women in all regions of the world are actually worse off than they were 10 years ago.
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  The Role of National Mechanisms in Promoting Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Report of the Expert Group Meeting

  2005

  This report emerged out of an Expert Group Meeting arranged by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) to contribute to the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).
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  Beijing + 10 Review: A Feminist Strategy for 2004-05, A Working Paper for NGOS on How to Move Forward

  2004

  The world has changed since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) was agreed in 1995. Informed by consultations on the future of women's human rights, the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) proposes that NGOs use a 'matrix of interlocking forces' as a critical framework for analysis of progress and obstacles to implementing the BPfA.
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  Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world

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

  Based on the findings of UNRISD's ongoing gender research and over 60 specially commissioned studies, this report analyses the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. Whatever their intentions, these reforms had significant and mixed implications for gender relations and women's well-being. The report is divided into four key sections.
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  Pathway to Gender Equality: CEDAW, Beijing, and the MDGs

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and Beijing processes have generated a wealth of understanding and experience of the nature of gender-based discrimination and clarify the steps needed to achieve gender equality.
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  From Beijing to Addis Ababa: What Progress for African Women?

  Pambazuka, 2004

  How far has Africa moved towards fulfilling the goals set out in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA)? This paper sets out some priority areas of the BPfA including health, education, involvement in public decision-making structures, armed conflict and eliminating violence against women.
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  Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing + 10 Review Process

  Equality Now, 2004

  Women's right to equality has been repeatedly affirmed by governments in international treaties, declarations, and conferences, as well as in domestic constitutions. Nevertheless, discrimination against women continues worldwide.
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  The Solidarity Economy: A Way to Reduce Inequalities between Men and Women?

  Genre en Action, 2005

  The market economy is not easy on women trying to reconcile family and work life without access to the same rights as men. A possible alternative is the 'solidarity economy' - economic enterprises undertaken not for profit but for benefit of a collective. These include crafts, small enterprises such as shops, cafes, entertainments or finance services.

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