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A Practical Guide to Constitution Building

A Practical Guide to Constitution Building provides an essential foundation for understanding constitutions and constitution building. Full of world examples of ground-breaking agreements and innovative provisions adopted during processes of constitutional change, the Guide offers a wide range of examples of how constitutions develop and how their development can establish and entrench democratic values. Beyond comparative examples, the Guide contains in-depth analysis of key components of constitutions and the forces of change that shape them.

Chapter 2 includes a section on "Principles related to gender" and Chapter 3 includes a section on "The rights of women".

Benchmarking National Legislation for Gender Equality: Findings from Five Asian Countries

The publication reviews the legal systems of Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Viet nam and assesses the extent of their legislative compliance with articles of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination agaisnt Women (CEDAW). The convention is an important international reference point for gender equality. The State Parties to CEDAW are legally bound to apply and enforce its articles in their legal systems. In this legislative assessment study only de jure compliance to CEDAW is assessed for the countries. But even for this, the findings reveal a varying level of legislative compliance. Overall, no country has achieved full compliance with CEDAW's articles. The extent of compliance ranges between 45 to 73 per cent, within de jure laws, with Viet Nam coming closest to the CEDAW benchmarks.

Ending Violence Against Women and Human Trafficking: A Guide to New Strategies

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This toolkit provides you with resources and ideas to help focus your efforts to fight domestic violence, sexual violence and trafficking and to give you a framework for action. It contains not only specific case studies of women across the globe, but it also provides policy background as well as concrete examples of what you can do to mount a campaign to combat human trafficking, sexual violence or domestic violence. Contact the authors at sfoster[at]stepheniefoster.com
and cindydyer[at]vitalvoices.org.

Consolidated Response on the Impact of Religion on Women’s Leadership Roles in Politics and Public Life

This consolidated response highlights the impact of religious norms and religion on women’s political participation. The response also describes women’s participation in religious institutions and religious political parties, as well as women’s resistance to religious limitations to their political participation.

Gender Responsive Budgeting in Pakistan: Experience and lessons learned

This article describes the experience and lessons learned to date during the implementation of gender responsive budgeting (GRB) in Pakistan. The article provides the background, and details on GRB activities, including various GRB tools, gender sensitization of the budgetary processes, linkages and synergies, and challenges and lesson learned.

Making Invisible Work More Visible; Gender and Time Use Surveys with a Focus in the Pacific and Unpaid Care Work

This book looks at methodologies for time use surveys in developing countries, especially the Pacific and the importance of unpaid care work.

A Digest of Case Law on the Human Rights of Women (Asia Pacific)

This is a collation of case summaries from the Asia Pacific region citing CEDAW, National Constitutions, and other Human Rights instruments protecting equality of rights between men and women.

Guidelines for Gender Sensitive Disaster Management

These guidelines are a set of practical steps to assist governments, the non state sector and civil society to respond to women’s concerns and needs in post disaster situations. The guidelines have been developed based on the reports of the survey of women’s human rights violations in the aftermath of the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.

Negotiating Culture: Intersection of Culture and Violence against Women in Asia Pacific

The report provides in depth presentations on different aspects of ‘culture’ and its effect on women and violence against women. It also sets out effective strategies for addressing culture at the community, national and international level.

Fundamentalisms in Asia Pacific: Trends, Impact, Challenges and Strategies Asserting Women’s Rights

This book analyzes the manifestations of fundamentalisms in the Asia-Pacific region and their impact on women as well as on democracy and politics in general. It includes strategies adopted by women’s groups and progressive women’s movements to resist these fundametalist developments.