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.
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
The Humanitarian Action Report is UNICEF’s annual appeal for children and women affected by emergencies around the globe. The report includes:
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
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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Women and Human Security: The Case of Post Conflict Afghanistan
Source: WIIS Words (via RAND Corporation)
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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