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Thursday, December 05, 2019
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Gender-Sensitive Parliaments
Inter-Parliamentary Union
The Report on Gender-Sensitive Parliaments is the result of a two-year research project. It follows up on a previous IPU publication, Equality in Politics: A Survey of Women and Men in Parliaments (2008). That Survey had found that women were...
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Tuesday, October 08, 2019
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Global feminist collaborations and the concept of violence against women in politics
Violence against women in politics is increasingly recognized around the world as a significant barrier to women’s political participation. This article maps how the concept emerged globally, arguing that it has multiple, parallel origins: efforts...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
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Gender in political parties’ strategic plans
International Idea
The global average for women’s representation in parliaments was 24 per cent in January 2019. Political parties are identified as responsible for women’s underrepresentation, given their role as the main gatekeepers of elected decision-making...
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Friday, January 18, 2019
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Gaining ground: Women and territorial power-sharing in peace processes
UN Women
This paper is part of a Gender Briefing Series to support women’s meaningful participation and the integration of gender perspectives in peace processes that aim to end violent intrastate conflict. The key target audience of these series of papers...
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Friday, December 28, 2018
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Global Gender Gap Report 2018
World Economic Forum
Gender parity is fundamental to whether and how economies and societies thrive. Ensuring the full development and appropriate deployment of half of the world’s total talent pool has a vast bearing on the growth, competitiveness and future-readiness...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
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Global Report on Gender Equality in Public Administration
Gender equality is both an essential development goal in its own right and a driver of human development. International law recognizes that everyone has a right to participate in public life, but it remains an ongoing challenge to achieve women’s...
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Monday, January 18, 2016
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GAPS report: Assessing UK Government Action on Women, Peace and Security in 2015
GAPS (Gender Action for Peace and Security) published a shadow report following as a response to the UK government’s annual Report to Parliament published in December 2015 and which lays out the progress of the country’s National Action Plan on...
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Friday, January 15, 2016
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Gender, Urbanization and Democratic Governance
With two-thirds of the world’s population predicted to live in urban areas by the year 2050, the global landscape is changing rapidly. The incorporation of women’s voices in policy and planning would contribute to the building of cities that allow...
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Monday, August 03, 2015
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Gender, Urbanization and Democratic Governance
The White Paper, published in June 2015, is a timely contribution to the latest United Nations negotiations on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which is putting emphasis on both, urban development and equal opportunities for women's leadership at...
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
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Gender quotas in single-member district electoral systems
Conventional knowledge on the effectiveness of gender quotas for enhancing women’s political participation has, to date, been unanimous on the superiority of quotas in proportional representation (PR) systems. Yet this view overlooks the many...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2014
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Gender-Sensitive Media: A Voluntary Code of Ethics
The purpose of this Code of Ethics is to help individual journalists, media persons, management and owners of media houses to promote gender justice in their organizational policies as well as in their professions to become better at their work, by...
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Friday, May 02, 2014
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Gender and Political parties: Far from parity
The election of four female presidents in Latin America in recent years has drawn attention to women’s political participation and their access to political decision-making. Despite these encouraging results, statistics reveal that the Latin...
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Friday, April 11, 2014
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Gender Equity and Peace Building: From Rhetoric to Reality
  This paper is the product of a review of literature on issues of gender in the context of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction. It was prepared as background material for an international workshop on gender equity and peace building jointly...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
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Gender Budget Initiatives: Strategies, Concepts, and Experiences
This book, published by UNIFEM in 2002, is a compilation of papers and statements made at the high level International Conference "Strengthening Economic and Fianncial Governance Through Gender Responsive Budgeting." The collection provides state of...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
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Gender Budgets Make More Cents: Country Studies and Good Practice
This Commonwealth Secretariat publication by Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt (2002), documents "good practice" in gender budget work from across the globe. Practitioners share their first-hand experiences and in-depth knowledge of the why, where and...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
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Gender and the Constituent Assembly: Promoting Women's Political Participation in Fiji
Women make up around 50% of the Fiji population but they continue to be underrepresented in national decision-making and are denied equal participation in such processes.An y democratisation process that does not enable equal, fair and substantive...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
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Gender Quotas and Female Leadership: A Review
Despite significant advances in education and political participation, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions in politics and business across the globe. In many countries, policy-makers have responded by introducing gender quotas in...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
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Gender and Local Governance
SNV, Netherlands Development organisation,  produced a manual on gender and local governance - an overview of the literature and websites on gender and governance processes, underlining strategies and best practices. Special emphasis is given on...
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