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Monday, March 26, 2007
United Nations Reform: Improving Peace Operations by Advancing the Role of Women
This report discusses the role of women in peacekeeping forces and peacemaking operations. It analyzes and provides recommendations on appointing women as heads of missions, recruiting women into the UN military personnel and civilian police, and...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Report of the Fifth South Asia Regional Ministerial Conference Celebrating Beijing Plus Ten
This report is an account of the Fifth South Asia Regional Ministerial Meeting, "Celebrating Beijing Plus Ten.” It provides an overview of the presentations, discussions and recommendations given at the meeting; contains the consensus document "...
Monday, March 19, 2007
Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis
This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse its effects cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered to reclaim their rights. It documents the latest information on the...
Monday, March 19, 2007
Gender Equality and Extension of Women's Rights in Russia in the Context of the UN Millennium Development Goals
This report analyzes the current situation in Russia with regard to different forms of gender inequality. It identifies key policy areas towards achievement of the third Millennium Development Goal, with respect to the specific Russian context. It...
Monday, March 19, 2007
Progress of Arab Women 2004
This report examines the progress and challenges of achieving gender balance and women's empowerment in the Arab region. It analyzes the status of women in the region in a historical, political, ideological and social context, and examines current...
Monday, March 19, 2007
Towards Political Empowerment for Jordanian Women
This report examines the political system in Jordan; identifies the obstacles and challenges facing women’s political empowerment; and determines the degree of prejudice in Jordanian society towards women's political empowerment. It covers three...
Monday, March 19, 2007
Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including From a Gender Perspective: Regional Seminar for Parliaments of South-West Asia
This report compiles the results of a seminar entitled, "Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including From a Gender Perspective," held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in May 2003. The seminar discussed themes such as the respective roles of government and...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Enhancing Women's Participation in Electoral Processes in Post-Conflict Countries: Report of the Expert Group Meeting Jan. 2004
In January 2004, the UN Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women convened an expert group meeting in Glen Cove, New York. The expert group discussed and analyzed electoral processes in post-conflict countries and...
Monday, March 12, 2007
BRIDGE Cutting Edge Packs Gender and Migration
How does migration advance or impede gender equality? How can policy-makers and practitioners promote gender equality in work on migration? Migration can bring new opportunities for greater gender equality and a better life, for those migrating and...
Monday, March 12, 2007
BRIDGE Cuting Edge Packs Gender and Trade
Trade and trade liberalisation have very different impacts on women and men - which can result in fundamental shifts in gender roles, relationships and inequalities. Moreover increasing claims that countries should be enabled to 'trade their way out...
Monday, March 12, 2007
Gender and Sexuality
Gender and sexuality are important in political struggles and development. This report explores the framework of sexual rights and the work of the United Nations in areas of gender and sexual rights, as well as describes efforts to focus activism...
Monday, March 12, 2007
BRIDGE Cutting Edge Packs: Gender and Social Movements
In order for any action or intervention around rights, democracy and equality to be successful, it must include and value gender equality as part of its analysis and methodology for change. But while women's rights and gender justice are 'on the...
Monday, March 12, 2007
Gender and Budgets
This report describes the importance of gender budgeting initiatives (GBIs). It includes a definition of GBIs, a description of tools for implementing GBIs, and strategies for advocating for gender-sensitive budgets.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Gender and HIV/AIDS
This report outlines the importance of locating HIV/AIDS within a gendered human rights framework. It analyzes how HIV/AIDS exacerbates gender inequality, and how gender inequality shapes the economic, political, and social factors driving the HIV...
Monday, March 12, 2007
BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack: Gender and Armed Conflict
Mainstream approaches to conflict and reconstruction fail to recognise how armed conflict exacerbates gender inequality. This pack explores the impact of armed conflict on gender relations, analysing the distinct ways in which women and men are...
Monday, March 12, 2007
BRIDGE Cutting Edge Packs: Gender and ICTs
Who benefits from information and communication technologies (ICTs)? ICTs have created new economic and social opportunities the world over. The positive changes brought about by ICTs, however, have not touched all of humanity. Their use continues...
Monday, March 12, 2007
Gender and Citizenship
Citizenship and gender are integral to development theory and practice. This report attempts to illustrate how reframing citizenship from a gender perspective can introduce broader rights and political participation as development goals. It also...
Monday, March 12, 2007
Gender Equity and Peacebuilding, From Rhetoric to Reality: Finding the Way
By focusing on issues of gender in the context of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction, this paper assesses the progression over the past decade in international thinking, policy statements, and development programming related to post-conflict...

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