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Austerity Measures in Developing Countries: Public Expenditure Trends and the Risks to Women and Children

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May 6, 2014

Austerity Measures in Developing Countries: Public Expenditure Trends and the Risks to Women and Children

This study examines how austerity measures may have adversely affected children and women in a sample of 128 developing countries in 2012.

This study examines how austerity measures may have adversely affected children and women in a sample of 128 developing countries in 2012.

Violence against Women, Bleeding Wound in the Syrian Conflict

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May 6, 2014

Violence against Women, Bleeding Wound in the Syrian Conflict

Overview of contents:

- Introduction

  Challenges to document VAW in Syria 
 
  Legal framework 

 

Overview of contents:

- Introduction

  Challenges to document VAW in Syria 
 
  Legal framework 

 

Women as Agents of Change: Having Voice in Society and Influencing Policy

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May 5, 2014

Women as Agents of Change: Having Voice in Society and Influencing Policy

The World Bank’s World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development (WDR2012)
identified women’s voice, agency and participation as a key dimension of gender equality and as a major

The World Bank’s World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development (WDR2012)
identified women’s voice, agency and participation as a key dimension of gender equality and as a major

How to follow up on UN Human Rights Recommendations: A practical guide for civil society

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May 2, 2014

How to follow up on UN Human Rights Recommendations: A practical guide for civil society

Follow-up activities aim at ensuring that recommendations and decisions by human rights mechanisms and bodies are implemented so as to improve respect, protection and fulfilment of all human rights for all. UN human rights mechanisms and bodies seek to improve the realization of human
Follow-up activities aim at ensuring that recommendations and decisions by human rights mechanisms and bodies are implemented so as to improve respect, protection and fulfilment of all human rights for all. UN human rights mechanisms and bodies seek to improve the realization of human

Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential

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May 2, 2014

Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential

This report looks at women's potential contributions to peacebuilding from the under-explored angle of natural resources, relating the ways they use, manage, benefit from the latter to their access to participation in peacebuilding.

This report looks at women's potential contributions to peacebuilding from the under-explored angle of natural resources, relating the ways they use, manage, benefit from the latter to their access to participation in peacebuilding.

Factsheet: Violence Against Women - the Missing MDG?

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May 2, 2014

Factsheet: Violence Against Women - the Missing MDG?

"This paper is the first of a series of three factsheets on different pertinent issues concerning gender equality and sustainable development.
"This paper is the first of a series of three factsheets on different pertinent issues concerning gender equality and sustainable development.

Justice Through Equality: Building Religious Knowledge for Legal Reform in Muslim Family Laws

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May 2, 2014

Justice Through Equality: Building Religious Knowledge for Legal Reform in Muslim Family Laws

Compare these two statements:
 
"The fundamentals of the Shari‘a are rooted in wisdom and promotion of the welfare of human beings in this life and the hereafter. Shari‘a
Compare these two statements:
 
"The fundamentals of the Shari‘a are rooted in wisdom and promotion of the welfare of human beings in this life and the hereafter. Shari‘a