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Democracy and Gender Equality: The Role of the UN

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May 2, 2014

Democracy and Gender Equality: The Role of the UN

Women’s participation is a central element of democracy, and the nature and degree of women’s participation is a key indicator of the quality of democratic culture.

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Women’s participation is a central element of democracy, and the nature and degree of women’s participation is a key indicator of the quality of democratic culture.

Justice Through Equality: Building Religious Knowledge for Legal Reform in Muslim Family Laws

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May 2, 2014

Justice Through Equality: Building Religious Knowledge for Legal Reform in Muslim Family Laws

Compare these two statements:
 
"The fundamentals of the Shari‘a are rooted in wisdom and promotion of the welfare of human beings in this life and the hereafter. Shari‘a
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Compare these two statements:
 
"The fundamentals of the Shari‘a are rooted in wisdom and promotion of the welfare of human beings in this life and the hereafter. Shari‘a

Our Motherland, Our Country: Gender Discrimination and Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa

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May 2, 2014

Our Motherland, Our Country: Gender Discrimination and Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa

Gender discrimination in nationality laws occurs when women cannot acquire, change, retain or pass on their nationality to their children and/or non-national spouses on an equal basis as men.
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Gender discrimination in nationality laws occurs when women cannot acquire, change, retain or pass on their nationality to their children and/or non-national spouses on an equal basis as men.

Discrimination Against Women in Bahraini Society and Legislation

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May 2, 2014

Discrimination Against Women in Bahraini Society and Legislation

The attached report was submitted by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights to the CEDAW (Convention for the Eliminatin of Discrimination Against Women) Committee.

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The attached report was submitted by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights to the CEDAW (Convention for the Eliminatin of Discrimination Against Women) Committee.

Varying Perceptions, One Outcome: Field Study Regarding Women’s Rights in Lebanon

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May 2, 2014

Varying Perceptions, One Outcome: Field Study Regarding Women’s Rights in Lebanon

Women’s work in the economic sphere, and them being forced to assume productive gender role came as economic necessity and not due to the developing relations between the two genders, their liberation and equality”.

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Women’s work in the economic sphere, and them being forced to assume productive gender role came as economic necessity and not due to the developing relations between the two genders, their liberation and equality”.

Parliaments and Gender Equality: Gender mainstreaming in legislatures

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May 1, 2014

Parliaments and Gender Equality: Gender mainstreaming in legislatures

The experience accumulated by the UNDP with other institutions is synthesized in the proposal we hereby present today: “Parliaments and Gender Equality. Gender mainstreaming in legislatures”.

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The experience accumulated by the UNDP with other institutions is synthesized in the proposal we hereby present today: “Parliaments and Gender Equality. Gender mainstreaming in legislatures”.

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