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Gender-based Violence Legal Aid: A Participatory Toolkit - ARC GBV in Conflict-affected Settings
Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2005This toolkit provides three tools and a step-by-step process to support field staff in the design of gender-based violence (GBV) services in conflict-affected settings that incorporate adequate, appropriate, and comprehensive prevention and response strategies with a multisectoral approach.DocumentParticipatory Action Learning in Practice: Experience of a Rapid Participatory Review of ANANDI, India
ANANDI Participatory Review, 2003How can a Participatory Action Learning System (PALS) help to empower women? ANANDI, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Gujarat, India, successfully used PALS to support women from poor and marginalised groups to identify, analyse and solve their own problems.DocumentCombined Initial, Second and Third CEDAW Periodic Reports: Cambodia
2004What steps has Cambodia's government taken to achieve gender equality since ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in October 2002? In this first report to the CEDAW Committee, the government outlines progress in a range of areas.DocumentGender Analysis and Assessment: Volume 1 Gender Analysis
2006Cambodia is slowly recovering from decades of violence and unrest. One positive outcome of this social upheaval is that oppressive gender roles and responsibilities are being challenged. Alongside this process are efforts to improve the status of women and promote their human rights.DocumentThe United Nations: A Framework for Support of Gender in Cambodia
2006The United Nations (UN) is committed to addressing gender concerns in Cambodia as a priority in its implementation of the UN Development Assistance Framework 2006-2010. The UN recognises that women are underrepresented politically in Cambodia and have a lower economic, social and cultural status to men.DocumentThe Progress Report on Implementation of Beijing Platform for Action on Women's Issues 1995-2005
Royal Government of Cambodia, 2004Since 1995, when it signed up to the Beijing Platform for Action, the Royal Government of Cambodia has incorporated gender strategies into national plans and policies.DocumentThe Vanishing Victim: Criminal Law and Gender in Jordan
Blackwell Synergy, 2007Criminal codes in Jordan are markedly gendered. This article analyses how the penalties for rape, domestic violence and honour killings reflect local norms of appropriate gender roles and society's desire to rectify the social standing and ?honour? of a raped woman and her family, rather than to punish the crime.DocumentStatus of Jordanian Women: Demography, Economic Participation, Political Participation and Violence
2004This report is part of UNIFEM's initiative on Gender Equality Measured Through Statistics (GEMS). It presents statistical information on gender equality and the status of Jordanian women in four areas: demography, economic participation, political participation and violence.DocumentPromising democracy, imposing theocracy: gender-based violence and the US war on Iraq
MADRE, 2007What is the relationship between Iraq's mounting civilian death toll and the ongoing increase in violence against women? This report explores the links between gender-based violence and the conflict that has ensued since the United States-led invasion. The paper argues that the Bush administration has traded women's rights for co-operation with the fundamentalists that it has empowered.DocumentParticipatory Social Auditing: a Practical Guide to Developing a Gender-Sensitive Approach
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004Female workers are more likely to be in insecure, non-permanent employment, with increased vulnerability to gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Participatory approaches to social auditing of compliance to labour codes can help us uncover such complex issues.Pages