| Author | : Naila Kabeer |
| Publisher | : Commonwealth Secretariat |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780850927528 |
This book explores the issue of gender inequality through the lens of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first one of halving world poverty by 2015.
| Author | : Markus Kaltenborn |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2019-01-01 |
| Genre | : Climatic changes |
| ISBN | : 3030304698 |
This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role of private actors. Each aspect is addressed from a more human rights-focused angle and a development-policy angle. This allows comparisons between the different approaches but also seeks to close gaps which would remain if only one perspective would be at the center of the discussions. Specifically, the book shows the strong connections between human rights and the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. Already the preamble of this document explicitly states that "the 17 Sustainable Development Goals ... seek to realise the human rights of all". Moreover, several goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda correspond to already existing individual human rights obligations. The contributions of this volume therefore also address how the implementation of human rights and SDGs can reinforce each other, but also point to critical shortcomings of the different approaches.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0821369202 |
This book examines the legal, administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing women in Kenya from contributing fully to the Kenyan economy. Building on the 2004 FIAS Improving the Commercial Legal Framework and Removing Administrative and Regulatory Barriers to Investment report, this study looks at the bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a gender lens.
| Author | : Raquel Fernández |
| Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 2021-03-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1513571168 |
This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal framework reforms, policies to promote equal access, and efforts to tackle entrenched social norms. These need to be set in the context of arising new trends such as digitalization, climate change, as well as shocks such as pandemics.
| Author | : Melissa Leach |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2015-07-30 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1317415191 |
For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way. Gender Equality and Sustainable Development calls for policies, investments and initiatives in sustainable development that recognize women’s knowledge, agency and decision-making as fundamental. Four key sets of issues - work and industrial production; population and reproduction; food and agriculture, and water, sanitation and energy provide focal lenses through which these challenges are considered. Perspectives from new feminist political ecology and economy are integrated, alongside issues of rights, relations and power. The book untangles the complex interactions between different dimensions of gender relations and of sustainability, and explores how policy and activism can build synergies between them. Finally, this book demonstrates how plural pathways are possible; underpinned by different narratives about gender and sustainability, and how the choices between these are ultimately political. This timely book will be of great interest to students, scholars, practitioners and policy makers working on gender, sustainable development, development studies and ecological economics.
| Author | : Sheila Aikman |
| Publisher | : Oxfam |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780855985295 |
This book combines analysis of policy and empirically based studies on gender, education, and development.
| Author | : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
| Publisher | : United Nations |
| Total Pages | : 110 |
| Release | : 2017-09-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9213627335 |
This publication is the first Asia-Pacific report that comprehensively maps out the intersections between gender and environment at the levels of household, work, community and policy. It examines gender concerns in the spheres of food security, agriculture, energy, water, fisheries and forestry, and identifies strategic entry points for policy interventions. Based on a grounded study of the reality in the Asia-Pacific region, this report puts together good practices and policy lessons that could be capitalized by policymakers to advance the agenda of sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.
| Author | : Caroline Sweetman |
| Publisher | : Oxfam |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780855985509 |
This collection focuses on the Millennium Development Goals from a gender perspective. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of this way of understanding and addressing poverty, and suggests ways of strengthening the approach by using key insights and approaches associated with the struggle to establish and uphold the rights of women.
| Author | : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
This publication sets out a human rights approach to the MDGs,... primarily to outline a clean analysis for the development sector, indentifying entry points at the policy level as well as for country-level programming and advocacy." -- P. vii.
