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Outlines the ways in which large national and transnational corporations are impacting the lives of women and oppressed peoples and offers insights into their strategies of resistance.

These twelve insights into how to develop more effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are important for those engaged in women’s rights and empowerment work at the grassroots, national, regional, and global level.

An open access digital library featuring critical resources on African feminism and women's rights movements in Africa.

Documents the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative's activities over the last 10 years and its value-added function in advancing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as they relate to gender, education, poverty reduction and the Education…

On 18 December 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. The Convention was the culmination of more than thirty years of work by the United Nations…

As part of aligning its work with the universal and integrated Agenda 2030, UNECE has updated its Policy for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2016-2020) to systematically mainstream gender across its substantive areas of work and…

A grassroots, human rights organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York, particularly their rights to develop their individual potential, to self-determination, and…

A growing social network connecting over 53,000 people from 190 countries who are impacting more than 3.1 million lives and creating a world where all women thrive.

The global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential.

The main message of the 2012 World development report is that these patterns of progress and persistence in gender equality matter, both for development outcomes and policy making. They matter because gender equality is a core development objective…