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Violence against women and Post MDG Framework

Violence against women and Post MDG Framework

There should be a clear indicator or target on reducing violence against women and girls. In addition to being a violation of rights, violence against women and girls significantly undermines progress towards all the development goals, making them impossible to achieve.

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D C on May 6, 2013

"This Old Man Can Feed Us, You Will Marry Him": Child and Forced Marriage in South Sudan

"This Old Man Can Feed Us, You Will Marry Him": Child and Forced Marriage in South Sudan

The 95-page report documents the consequences of child marriage, the near total lack of protection for victims who try to resist marriage or leave abusive marriages, and the many obstacles they face in accessing mechanisms of redress. It is based on interviews with 87 girls and women in Central Equatoria, Western Equatoria, and Jonglei states, as well as with government officials, traditional leaders, health care workers, legal and women’s rights experts, teachers, prison officials, and more...

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D C on March 13, 2013

Making Care Visible

Making Care Visible

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Care is around us everywhere – from the mother who takes care of her children, to the wife who cooks her family’s meals, the eldest daughter who helps with the housework, and the widow who works in the community kitchen. While all women regardless of class, race, caste and ethnicity are expected to provide care as part of their roles as mothers, wives, and daughters, women living in poverty are disproportionately affected by this responsibility. Unpaid care is more difficult to do in the more...

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D C on March 6, 2013

Ending Violence against Women: The case for a comprehensive international action plan

Ending Violence against Women: The case for a comprehensive international action plan

What progress has been made towards ending violence against women worldwide? Violence against women is a violation of human rights, a barrier to women’s active citizenship, and a fundamental constraint to the eradication of poverty. When governments meet at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2013 their commitment is urgently needed to the implementation of existing frameworks to eliminate all forms of violence against women. This Oxfam policy paper outlines a proposal for a more...

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D C on March 6, 2013

Gender Equality and Development in the Middle East and North Africa

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Since the early 1990s, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region have made admirable progress in reducing the gap between girls and boys in areas such as access to education and health care. Indeed, almost all young girls in the Region attend school, and more women than men are enrolled in university. Over the past two decades, maternal mortality declined 60 percent, the largest decrease in the world. Women in MENA are more educated than ever before. It is not only in the more...

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D C on March 5, 2013

Transforming social norms to prevent violence against women

How can social norms be transformed? This event on the topic of social institutions and the prevention of violence against women and girls is co-hosted by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the South African Ministry of Women, Children and People with Disabilities (DWCPD) and the OECD Development Centre. This will panel will explore the relationship between social norms and violence against women. Starting with perspectives from Finland and South Africa, the OECD Development Centre more...

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D C on February 22, 2013

The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

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Women play a critical and potentially transformative role in agricultural growth in developing countries, but they face persistent obstacles and economic constraints limiting further inclusion in agriculture. The new Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) measures the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector in an effort to identify ways to overcome those obstacles and constraints. The Index is a significant innovation in its field and aims to increase more...

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D C on February 7, 2013

Progress of the world's women

Progress of the world's women

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In many countries of the world, the rule of law still rules women out. In every region, there are laws that discriminate against women, in relation to property, the family, employment and citizenship. Too often, justice institutions, including the police and the courts, deny women justice. But, governments and civil society are pioneering innovative approaches to ensure that women can access justice. Catalyzing gender-sensitive law reform, investing in one-stop shops and providing reparations more...

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D C on January 24, 2013

CSW57 Parallel Event - IRFD South-South Exchange: Experiences, Lessons & Strategies for Eliminating All Forms of Violence Against Women & Girls

IRFD CSW 57 Parallel Event Flyer

IRFD South-South Exchange Experiences, Lessons & Strategies for Eliminating All Forms of Violence Against Women & Girls // A Parallel Event to the 57th Session of UN CSW // CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS, PANELISTS, PAPERS & COMMITTEE MEMBERS The South-South Exchange, hosted by the International Research Foundation for Development, (IRFD) is a meeting of minds among leading scholars, activists, and advocates from the global South working to eliminate all forms of violence against women more...

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Nishan Ardon on January 3, 2013

Gender Chart 2012

Gender Chart 2012

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This Gender Chart (2012) is apart of the Millennium Development Goals Report produced by the United Nations that produces and analyses the gender inequality trends associated with poverty.Despite the Global reduction of nearly 800 million people living in extreme poverty from 1990-2008, women continue to be more likely to live in poverty than men. Women in Sub-Saharan Africa are over-represented in poor households, mainly because they are less likely to have paid work and more...

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Moushumi Biswas on January 2, 2013

Policy reform toward gender equality in Ethiopia

Policy reform toward gender equality in Ethiopia

There is growing interest in the role of policy reforms to promote gender equality and empower women, two key objec-tives of development policy. From a policy perspective, it would be ideal for reforms undertaken in different policy areas to be consistent, so that they reinforce each other in improving gender equity.

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Moushumi Biswas on December 31, 2012

UN Trust Fund launches 2012 Call for Proposals

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The UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women is accepting applications for its 17th grant cycle (2012) from government authorities at the national and local levels, civil society organizations and networks — including non-governmental, women’s and community-based organizations and coalitions and operational research institutions — and UN Country Teams in partnership with governments and civil society organizations. The 2012 UN Trust Fund Call invites proposals in the following areas more...

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UN Trust Fund t... on November 26, 2012

Enabling women’s development and empowerment through access to clean, affordable, sustainable energy

Enabling women’s development and empowerment through access to clean, affordable, sustainable energy

This brief sets out why it is vital to ensure that processes such as the Sustainable Energy for All initiative and Rio+20 have gender dimensions at their heart. This brief focuses on the opportunities energy access provides for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, especially in rural communities. It is also important to note that addressing the challenge of access to clean, affordable, sustainable energy is an opportunity to progress climate justice principles such as the right to more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 4, 2012

Advancing women’s rights worldwide

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This report aims to take stock of the advancement of women’s rights worldwide and appeals to states to give a stronger impetus to assessing, defending and developing global political action towards the improvement of women’s situation in theory and practice. Despite the numerous commitments made by states in the last decades to promote and protect women’s rights, progress in improving the status of women on a global scale has fallen short of expectations. Inequality and discrimination against more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 31, 2012

Access to Justice: Empowering female heads of household in Indonesia

Access to Justice: Empowering female heads of household in Indonesia

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This report indicates that women bring twice as many divorce cases to the court than men, with domestic violence a factor in 78 per cent of cases. Without support of the Supreme Court to waive court fees or access circuit courts, and the support from civil society groups to help inform women about these services and prepare them for court, many of these women would not bring their cases to court. They would therefore continue not to have access to basic government services and the opportunity more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 27, 2012

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