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Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Moremi initiative : women's leadership in Africa

| cop. 2008-
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  • Publisher: Moremi initiative
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  • Keywords: women, girls, leadership, popular participation, capacity building, youth, africa
This initiative aims to engage, inspire and equip young women and girls to become the next generation of leading politicians, activists, social entrepreneurs and change agents: Leaders who can transform and change institutions that legitimize and perpetuate disccrimination against women.

Gender & political leadership

| cop. 2008-
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  • Publisher: Australian national university (ANU). Centre for democratic institutions (CDI)
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  • Keywords: women, political participation, popular participation, leadership, capacity building, fiji, indonesia, papua new guinea, solomon islands, vanuatu, asia and the pacific
Gender and political leadership is a cross-cutting theme in the work of the Centre for Democratic Institutions. The Centre’s gender and political participation programme works with focus countries to create an environment in which women can participate in civic and political life.

50/50 : getting the balance right in national parliaments

| cop. 2008
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  • Publisher: Women's environment & development organization (WEDO)
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  • Keywords: gender mainstreaming, parliamentary government, affirmative action programmes, women, political participation
Recently updated, this resource highlights the ways in which governments can effectively get more women in national parliaments and offers ways for you to take action.

Women's political participation in countries emerging from conflict in the Great Lakes region of Africa : report...

| cop. 2008
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  • Publisher: International alert
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  • Keywords: women, political participation, gender research, uganda, burundi, rwanda, congo
This workshop reported here was part of a regional research project aimed at assessing the impact of women’s political participation in countries emerging from conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Issued discussed include hindrances and constraints to women’s participation.

Our rights are not optional : advocating for the implementation of the Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW) through its optional protocol : a resource guide

| cop. 2008
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  • Publisher: International women's rights action watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific
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  • Keywords: women's rights, treaties, reference materials
This new edition of the easy-to-use resource guide seeks to contribute to processes leading to the ratification and use of the Optional Protocol to the Convention to the Elimination of al Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
 

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This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on women’s political participation & representation, women’s rights, institutional mainstreaming, and decentralization & local governance. Find your resources in the database.