Gender, Citizenship and Governance

eNews / Women's learning partnership for rights, development, and peace (WLP)

| 2002- .
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  • Publisher: WLP
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, leadership, capacity building
eNews provides regular updates on WLP’s activities and interviews with leading women’s rights activists from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

JENdA : a journal of culture and African women studies / Africa resource center (ARC)

| 2000- .
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  • Publisher: ARC
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  • Keywords: women, gender research, africa
JENdA is a peer refereed academic journal of Africa Resource Center, Inc. committed to disseminating the research findings, analyses, and interpretations of scholars whose field is African Women studies. Old copies of the journal (2000-8) are freely accessible.

Annual report / UNIFEM (United nations development fund for women)

| 1991-
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  • Publisher: UNIFEM
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women in development, women, political participation, popular participation, urban planning, domestic violence, women's rights, operational activities, intergovernmental organizations
Placing the advancement of women's human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on: women's economic security and rights; ending violence against women; reducing HIV and AIDS among women; gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace and war.

Gender and foreign assistance : the key to effective development : case studies by sector

| [ca. 2010]
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  • Publisher: Women thrive worldwide
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: development assistance, poverty, gender
Decades of research and experience have shown profound differences between women and men in terms of their roles, rights and responsibilities.To ensure that development projects are designed effectively make sure that differences between women and men are built into the development strategies.

Dalit women in Rajasthan : status of economic, social & cultural rights

| [ca. 2008]
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  • Publisher: Programme on women's economic, social and cultural rights (PWESCR)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, economic, social and cultural rights, india
A fact-finding mission was undertaken to look at Dalit women's realities in the context of economic, social and cultural rights in 5 villages from two districts of Rajasthan in India. The mission focused primarily on: right to food, right to water, and right to livelihood.
 

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