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  Gender Mainstreaming in Disaster Reduction

  2002

  Development is increasingly being seen as affected by natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, droughts, floods and storms. This paper outlines the main ways in which disasters impact differently on women and men and how these impacts vary according to context. Gender inequality is a cause of vulnerability due to factors such as cultural values and unequal work burdens.
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  Women, Disaster Reduction and Sustainable Development

  World Meterological Organisation Bulletin, 2003

  Disasters affect women and men differently; women are often worse off than men as a result of disasters and benefit less from processes of reconstruction. Disaster-reduction which aims to increase resilience to natural hazards must reflect the fact that social and economic contexts will largely dictate the magnitude of a disaster and its effects.
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  DAC Source Book on Concepts and Approaches Linked to Gender Equality

  DAC Network on Gender Equality, 1998

  This background document is divided into two sections. The first defines key concepts and approaches and the second provides a selected list of materials on various themes within gender and development. The key concepts cover a wide range of development issues and are not only gender-specific.
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  Investing in people: national progress in implementing the ICPD programme of action 1994-2004

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Almost all countries report having taken at least one policy, legislative or administrative action to protect the rights of girls and women and promote women's empowerment since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994.
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  The Principle of Accountability

  Women's Human Right's Net, 2004

  Accountability mechanisms can provide a way of institutionalising responsibility for addressing women's human rights violations, and point to ways forward in terms of process. Accountability has played an important role in the development of human rights law over the past decade.
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  Why Should we Care about Unpaid Care Work?

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  The failure of macroeconomic policies to acknowledge unpaid care work - such as housework, cooking, and caring for children, older people, and sick or disabled people - has a significant impact on women's lives. How can we ensure that unpaid care work is visible and accounted for in macro- and micro-level policy-making?
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  Gender, the Millennium Development Goals, and Human Rights in the Context of the 2005 Review Process

  BRIDGE, 2004

  Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) originate in and complement human rights instruments, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA).
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  Follow-up to the Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties-Argentina

  2004

  The economic, social and political crisis that Argentina has suffered since mid-1998 has had a severe negative impact on the situation of women. It caused a sharp increase in the percentage of poor and extremely poor women, in maternal mortality and female HIV/AIDS infection rates, and in sex crimes, such as trafficking for the purposes of prostitution.
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  Diversity makes the difference!: Gender considerations for promoting an equitable access to and fair sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of biodiversity

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  Gender equity is a fundamental issue in the conservation of biological diversity. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recognises the specific role that women play in the sustainable use of biodiversity resources and affirms the need to guarantee their full participation at all levels of policy making and execution.
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  Girl child labour in agriculture, domestic work and sexual exploitation: a comparative analysis, cases of Ghana, Ecuador, Philippines (vol. 2)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  How prevalent is girl child labour in the agriculture, domestic work and personal service sectors? What can be done to provide better protection, particularly from the worst forms of child labour, to girl child labourers? How can child labour be progressively eliminated and girl child labourers be encouraged to go back to school?

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