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Women’s Knowledge Digital Library

girls

Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood

A report showing that adults view Black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers.

Africa

A Price Too High to Bear: The Costs of Maternal Mortality to Families and Communities

This study documents the costs of maternal mortality to households in poor remote communities and explores the impact of these costs on family well-being.

economic justice

Child In Need Institute

CINI seeks to break the vicious cycle of poverty, malnutrition, ill-health, illiteracy, abuse and violence, affecting in particular children and women.

data

Gender Data Portal

Makes gender statistics accessible through narratives and data visualizations to improve the understanding of gender data.

economics

The UN Women gender and economics training manual

Provide training to development practitioners, including governments, policy and programme staff in international development agencies.

policy

Speaking Out: Women, Poverty, and Public Policy

A feminist analysis of the ongoing debates about welfare reform.

development

World survey on the role of women in development: Report of the Secretary-General (2019): Why addressing women’s income and time poverty matters for sustainable development

Focused on selected emerging development themes that have an impact on the role of women.

poverty

State of World Population 2020: Against My Will – Defying the Practices that Harm Women and Girls and Undermine Equality

This publication documents the origins, drivers and prevalence of harmful practices within and across developing and developed countries as well as in humanitarian settings.