Sabra, Martina | 2008
- Author(s): Sabra, Martina
- Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, women's rights, legal status, law, egypt, jordan, yemen
Successful interventions to improve the legal situation of women and tackle structural discrimination against women in Egypt, Jordan and Yemen are presented. Key fields of action include ending discrimination in formal law and improving women's access to rights and legal entitlements.
Sacchet, Teresa | 2005
- Author(s): Sacchet, Teresa
- Publisher: UN. Department of economic and social affairs (DESA)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, political parties, leadership, political participation, latin america
The interaction of gender issues with political parties in Latin America is analysed to assess the relationship between them and establish how political parties best incorporate gender demands and contribute to mainstream the gender perspective.
Saigol, Rubina | 2011
- Author(s): Saigol, Rubina
- Publisher: Aurat foundation. Gender equity program (GEP)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: gender mainstreaming, gender, empowerment, pakistan
Women's empowerment is a complex concept within feminism and development literature. It has economic, political, social, cultural, religious, personal, psychological and emotional elements. Women are capable of empowering themselves while external actors can create supportive environments.
Sait, Siraj and Augustinus, Clarissa | 2007
- Author(s): Sait, Siraj and Augustinus, Clarissa
- Publisher: United nations human settlements programme (UN-HABITAT)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, human rights, women's rights, land tenure, property rights, housing
This guide supplements existing knowledge on land policy and practice in respect of women's rights, by bringing together various studies which can contrast and compare different approaches in which states seek to implement women's security of tenure.
Samson, Melanie | 2005
- Author(s): Samson, Melanie
- Publisher: York university. Department of political science
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, local government, political participation, governance, south africa
Using the transformation of local government in Johannesburg, South Africa, the paper explores whether developmental local government is indeed redressing gender inequality, building capacity and developing new forms of participatory, democratic governance.