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    The Treaty of Lisbon from a Gender Perspective: Changes and Challenges

    2008
    The Treaty of Lisbon is an agreement signed in 2007 that aims to reform and modify European Union institutions and their ways of working so that they are better equipped to face today's challenges. This briefing paper was written to guide the Women in Development Europe (WIDE) in shaping their gender advocacy strategy around the Treaty.
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    Political Reform to Increase Quotas for Women in Parliament: The Use of Electoral Gender Quotas in Rwanda

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2007
    Electoral gender quotas accelerated greater representation of women in the Rwandan Parliament, with 48.8 per cent of parliamentary seats, the highest in the world after the first ever multiparty elections. While the use of electoral gender quotas is a useful and important mechanism, multiple factors produced the Rwandan success.
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    Gendering Governance

    Publishers WWW sites, 2008
    Governance has become a central concept used by policymakers and politicians at the local, national, regional and global levels - as well as by political and other social scientists.
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    Windows of Opportunity: The Pursuit of Gender Equality in Post-War Iraq

    Women for Women International, 2005
    Iraq's post-war reconstruction period will have long-lasting implications for women. This is a window of opportunity in which decisions are being made which will determine women's permanent roles in governance, their rights under civil law and their future status in Iraqi society.
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    Looking through Gender Lenses: Position Paper on Gender Equality

    2006
    Women are discriminated against in all aspects of Burmese society - particularly in the public sphere. The military regime has deepened this inequality, as women are excluded from entering the military and from holding many government positions.
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    A Gap Analysis Report on the Status of The Palestinian Women In the Context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

    Mediterranean Women, 2001
    Initiated by the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), this gap analysis report was the result of over two years of concerted efforts of a number of Palestinian non-governmental organisations and government institutions.
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    The Model Parliament for Family Law Reform: A Significant Step towards Linking Women's Issues with National Concerns

    Women Living Under Muslim Law, 2004
    The 1993 Oslo agreement resulted in the forming of the Palestinian Authority but it did not create a separate Palestinian state. This deprived many Palestinians of their fundamental right to self-determination and in the years that followed Palestinians passionately discussed every new law that was proposed.
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    Women in Bolivarian Venezuela Part 1: Women and the Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution

    Venezuela Analysis, 2005
    What contribution has the Bolivarian Revolution (socialist manifestation of the ideals of Simon Bolivar), combined with women's civil society activism, made to the status of women in Venezuela? Tracing the women's movement from 1958, with the fall of Perez Jimenez's dictatorship, this document sketches activities, triumphs and challenges of achieving gender equality in Venezuela.
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    Citizenship: towards a feminist synthesis

    Feminist Review, 1997
    This article outlines how citizenship can be used as a political and theoretical tool by combining 'rights' and 'participation'. Participation in social, economic, cultural and political decision-making provides a more dynamic and active form of rights in which people work together to improve their quality of life.
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    Women, citizenship and difference

    Feminist Review, 1997
    In a globalising world where the role of the local, the national and the global is shifting, the meanings of citizenship are also changing. This article presents some new theoretical discussions on gender and citizenship.

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