Useful Resources and Links
Websites- web links
- United Nations Women Watch
- Inter-Parliamentary Union
Women in Politics - www.ipu.org/iss-e/women.htm
Women's representation in parliaments - Women's Human Rights Resources
International human rights for women - Cool Plane
Incorporating "global citizenship" and social justice into formal education
Resources
- BRIDGE, Instituted of Development Studies
University of Sussex, United Kingdom -
Resources on gender, development, and citizenship - "Women in Contemporary Democratization" (2000)
Shahra Razavi, Occasional Paper No. 4, Geneva: UNRISD
UNRISD is an autonomous United Nations agency that carries out research
on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. - Women's Political Participation and Good Governance: 21st Century Challenges (2000) UNDP
Information on gender and governance, includes case studies on India's
local-government quotas for women, the gender budget in South Africa,
Uganda's women's caucus, and campaigns to end violence against women in
Latin America and the Caribbean. - UNDP Gender in Development Programme: Monograph Series
Gender and governance - Gender and Citizenship Initiative – UNDP POGAR
Aims to encourage policy debates and dialogue on women's citizenship in
selected Arab countries, raise awareness of gender inequalities in
legislation, build the capacity of Arab women's NGOs to lobby for
policy changes, and build partnerships between women's NGOs and
parliamentarians. - Women are Citizens Too: The Laws of the State, the Lives of Women (2002)
Nadia Hijab, Regional Bureau for Arab States, UNDP
Family laws, social protection laws, nationality, and election laws and
their impact on the relationship between women and citizenship in the
Arab state