This article appeared in Frontline; Volume 18 – Issue 22, Oct. 27 – Nov. 09, 2001 “Nobel Laureate work on gender inequality is of seminal importance. His work on the theory of the household represents the household not as an undifferentiated unit, but as a unit of cooperation as well as of inequality and internal […]

Table of Contents 1 Why discriminatory social institutions affecting adolescent girls matter 2 About the Issues Paper 3 Key messages 4 References Why discriminatory social institutions affecting adolescent girls matter The OECD Development Centre released this Issues Paper in April 2013. The main findings were presented at a workshop on “”, which took place on […]

About This report by International Alert is based on a three-year research project on gender in peacebuilding, which involved field research in 4 countries (, , and ), with a thematic focus on 4 areas of peacebuilding: access to justice (including formal, informal, traditional and transitional justice); economic recovery (especially of ex-combatants and of returnee […]

The Information Guide for Arab Millennium Development Goal Reports is a report published by the (UN-ESCWA). It was launched on 14th September 2008 by the Executive Secretary of ESCWA, Mr. Bader Omar Al-Dafa. The booklet presents the main outcome of the project “Toward more gender-responsive Millennium Development Goal () monitoring and reporting in the Arab […]

Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluation UNEG Handbook Human rights and gender equality dimensions must be paid special attention in evaluations, particularly in the UN context but also elsewhere where those dimensions matter. Attention to gender equality and human rights in evaluation adds the important principles of equality, inclusion and non-discrimination. All types […]