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Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2020
(United Nations, 2020)
The year 2020 was supposed to be momentous—in a good way. Around the globe, world leaders and women’s rights activists had planned to celebrate the anniversaries of key legal and policy innovations that have cemented women’s ...
Gender Gap in the STEM Fields and Proposed Intervention Programmes
(United Nations, 2020)
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, as in many other countries, women tend to be underrepresented in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields, exluding them from fast growing, profitable careers. Theories say ...
Gender Issue Guide: Housing and Slum Upgrading
(United Nations Human Settlements Programme 2012, 2012)
Access to adequate housing is a fundamental human right and is enshrined in numerous international agreements and conventions. “Within the overall context of an enabling approach,” states Paragraph 61 of the Habitat Agenda, ...
Yerel Yönetim ve Hizmetlerde Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği
(UN Women, 2020)
Progress of World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights
(United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), 2015)
“Progress of the world’s women 2015–2016: Transforming economies, realizing rights”, UN Women’s flagship report, shows that, all too often, women’s economic and social rights are held back, because they are forced to fit ...
The World Survey on the role of women in development 2014: Gender equality and sustainable development
(United Nations, 2014)
The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is a UN Secretary-General report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. The 2014 report focuses on gender equality and ...
Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces for Women and Girls Global Flagship Initiative: Second international compendium of practices
(United Nations, 2020)
This “Second international compendium of practices” illustrates in a practical way how participating cities of the Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces Global Flagship Initiative are working to implement women’s safety ...
Protecting Children from Violence in Sport
(UNICEF, 2010-07)
This study was supported by the Governments of Italy, Norway and Sweden, as well as the Swiss Committee for UNICEF.
The report was prepared under the direction of the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) Implementation ...
Women 2000 and beyond
(United Nations, 2007-12)
“Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world” —Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, 1896 Women’s participation in sport has a long history. It is a history marked by division and discrimination but ...
The Concept and Practice of Affirmative Action
(United Nations, 2002-06-17)