Advancing Women’S Leadership And Participation "Transforming The National AIDS Response..." UNIFEM

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The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has just published  "Transforming the National AIDS Response: Advancing Women’s Leadership and Participation" , a resource guide that highlight strategies for incorporating gender equality and women’s rights into national HIV and AIDS responses.

This publication is downloadable in English.  From UN Pulse

Making The MDGs Work Better For Women.. UNIFEM

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Making the MDGs Work Better for Women is a new publication published by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).This publication draws on good practices to elaborate key strategies for accelerating the pace for reaching the MDGs. From UN Pulse. Permanent Link: Making the MDGs Work Better for Women

Population Dynamics And Climate Change. UNFPA Report

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The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has issued a report on population dynamics and climate change. The report broadens and deepens understanding of a wide range of population-climate change linkages. Incorporating population dynamics into research, policymaking and advocacy around climate change is critical for understanding the trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions, for developing and implementing adaptation plans and thus for global and national efforts to curtail this threat. UN Pulse: Permanent Link: UNFPA Report: Population Dynamics and Climate Change

UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2008

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The Humanitarian Action Report is UNICEF’s annual appeal for children and women affected by emergencies around the globe. The report includes:

Access the PDF download centre to download the report in full, or by chapters which include individual country reports.  UN Pulse: Permanent Link: UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2008

Center For American Women And Politics (CAWP)

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CAWP election watch

A useful website maintained by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) , a specialist research instutute based at Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutger University. It provides free access to information about the involvement of women in American elections . It includes articles, analysis and statistics relating to Hillary Clinton's 2008 American presidential election campaign. Also available are fact sheets on gender gap voting in previous elections; historical summaries of the outcome of women candidates in previous elections. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/Facts3.html

Africa: Gender, Poverty And Environmental Indicators, 2007

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Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries 2007
314 pages; PDF

This is the eighth volume of Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group. As from this year’s edition, we innovate by presenting a special feature article on various gender, poverty and environmental issues of interest to Africa’s development agenda. The publication also provides some information on the broad development trends relating to gender, poverty and environmental issues in the 53 African countries. Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries 2007 was prepared by the Economic and Social Statistics Division of the Statistics Department.

Source: African Development Bank Group (via Basefsky’s IWS Documented News Service)

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Afghanistan: Women In Post-Conflict Nation-Building

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Women and Human Security: The Case of Post Conflict Afghanistan
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A study recently conducted by the RAND Corporation looked at the role of women in post-conflict nation-building, with particular focus on Afghanistan. Our findings suggest that a stronger emphasis on the broader concept of human security from the earliest phases of the nation-building effort; a focus on establishing governance on the principles of equity and consistent rule of law from the start; and, as a component of both of these things, women’s earliest inclusion in reconstruction activities are likely to improve the outcomes of post-conflict nation-building.

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