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Not a sufficient condition: the limited relevance of the gender MDG to women’s progress

01/03/2005

11 pages long

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Not a sufficient condition: the limited relevance of the gender MDG to women’s progress

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Despite recent awareness of the need to ‘mainstream’ gender perspectives into public policy, and in responses to economic inequity and growing poverty, practice often seems to continue to place gender equity as a secondary goal. Are the Millennium Development Goals any different? This article argues that – taking Belize as a case in point – […]

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Out of the margins: the MDGs through a CEDAW lens

01/03/2005

12 pages long

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Out of the margins: the MDGs through a CEDAW lens

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This article examines the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from a women’s human rights perspective. It outlines some of the practical ways in which human rights principles, and the provisions set out in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in particular, can be used to ensure that the MDGs […]

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Introduction

01/03/2005

6 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Critiquing the MDGs from a Caribbean perspective

01/03/2005

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Critiquing the MDGs from a Caribbean perspective

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This article explores ways in which the MDGs can be made to work to promote women’s equality and empowerment. Drawn from the author’s extensive experience of feminist activism in the Caribbean region, it discusses strategies to improve the MDGs. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents […]

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Where to for women’s movements and the MDGs?

01/03/2005

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Where to for women’s movements and the MDGs?

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This article explores different responses of women’s rights activists and organisations, in various regions of the world, to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) agenda and processes. It gives a brief overview of the current state of play regarding the engagement of women’s movements with the MDGs. It then focuses on campaigning and advocacy, and the […]

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Approaches to reducing maternal mortality: Oxfam and the MDGs

01/03/2005

8 pages long

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Approaches to reducing maternal mortality: Oxfam and the MDGs

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The political momentum of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), coupled with a technical consensus about how to tackle maternal mortality, greatly improves the prospect of reducing women’s death and disability rates. In its campaigning and advocacy work on the MDGs, Oxfam will focus on the need to raise the national and international finance for the […]

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Making the links: women’s rights and empowerment are key to achieving the millennium development goals

01/03/2005

4 pages long

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Making the links: women’s rights and empowerment are key to achieving the millennium development goals

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Men and women have the right to live their lives and raise their children in dignity, free from hunger and from fear of violence, oppression or injustice. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender […]

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The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change

01/03/2005

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The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change

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This article argues that there is a need for gender-sensitive curricula and pedagogies in schools in order to achieve good-quality outcomes for girls’ education. It examines different dimensions of gender equality and draws on issues raised and discussed at two international seminars which challenged narrow views of curriculum and pedagogy. The article considers these issues […]

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Gender equality and women’s empowerment: a critical analysis of the third millennium development goal

01/03/2005

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Gender equality and women’s empowerment: a critical analysis of the third millennium development goal

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This article discusses the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG), on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It explores the concept of women’s empowerment and highlights ways in which the indicators associated with this Goal – on education, employment, and political participation – can contribute to it. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. […]

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Linking women’s human rights and the MDGs: an agenda for 2005 from the UK Gender and Development Network

01/03/2005

15 pages long

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Linking women’s human rights and the MDGs: an agenda for 2005 from the UK Gender and Development Network

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a potentially powerful tool for progress on development and human rights. Women’s human rights activists should recognise and build on the political will mobilised around the MDGs. However, the MDGs reflect problems in the dominant development approach. They seek to use women in their existing social roles to ‘deliver’ […]

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