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    The Gender Equity Index (GEI) Reports: No Country in the World Treats its Women as Well as its Men

    Social Watch, 2005
    The Gender Equity Index (GEI), which was developed by Social Watch in 2004, shows that there is not a single country in the world today where women have the same opportunities as men. This paper describes the GEI, which ranks 134 countries on a scale of 1 to 12 and allows comparisons of women's situations in these countries over time.
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    Accountability for the Progress of Women: Women Demanding Action

    2000
    What mechanisms are there for holding government to account over international commitments to furthering gender equality? How can we measure if government policy commitments to gender equality are backed up by resource commitments?
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    The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) Aid Effectiveness and Women's Rights Series

    2007
    The Paris Declaration is the most recent donor-partner agreement designed to increase the impact of aid.
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    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Grantmaking In The Global South and East - a Global Gaze

    BRIDGE, 2007
    What is the state of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) grant-making and receiving organisations in the Global South and East? This report includes key findings about givers and receivers of LGBTI grant-making.
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    "We Know What We Need!" South Asian Women Speak Out On Climate Change Adaptation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Poor women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal are struggling to protect their lives, homes, assets and livelihoods from weather-related hazards caused by climate change. Nevertheless, women are not passive victims of climate change. This report presents field research conducted in the Ganga river basin in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, with poor women in rural areas.
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    Thoughts on Dignity

    BRIDGE, 2007
    If we are to advance and make real the vision of a world in which human beings enjoy all their human rights in peace, we need to consider the utility of the concept of 'dignity'. This essay discusses the possibility that the concept of 'dignity' may help in advancing a holistic approach to theory and practice meant for inspiring peace and equity.
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    Class of Dialogues on Vagina Monologues: A Sum-up on the Pedagogy of Women and Gender Studies

    2004
    In the evening of December 20, 2002, teachers from more than 20 universities in China came to the classroom to watch graduate students' perform a multimedia presentation of dialogues from 'The Vagina Monologues'. The response to this taboo shaking class was both applause and censure.
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    The Second Fundher Report: Financial Sustainability for Women's Movements Worldwide

    2007
    Where is the money for women's rights and how can we tap it? How could new resources be mobilised to build stronger feminist movements in order to advance women's rights worldwide? This report analyses the funding landscape for women's rights work, building on an earlier report published by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) in 2006.
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    Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

    Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007
    Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.
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    Breaking the Silence: the Global Gag Rule's Impact on Unsafe Abortion

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2003
    To what extent is the Bush Administration's gag rule contributing to the global crisis of unsafe abortion? The global gag rule (also known as the Mexico City Policy) is an executive order, issued by President Bush in 2001, which restricts foreign Non Government Organisations (NGOs) who receive USAID family planning assistance from using their own, non-U.S.

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